Baltimore commercial journal, and Lyford's price-current. [volume] (Baltimore, Md) 1840-1849, 1849-03-24
CIRCULAR INSTRUCTIONS TO COLLECTORS
AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE CUSTOMS.


TREAsrRY DEPARTMENT, March 9, 1919.
The particular attention OF Collectors and other
officers of the Customs is called to the sn6omCd act
Of Congress- approved 81 March, lS49, entitled IAN
act to extend the provisions Of all laws now in force
relating to the carriage Ct passengers i'll merchant
vessels and the regulation thereof
On examination of this act, il will he crcaivcd,
that with certain notifications mentioned, it
tends the provisions Of the laws referred TO, TO a
vessels bound from any port in the United States 10
anv port place in the Pacific Ocean, or on its trib-
utaries, from my such port or place, TO any port
in the United States or on the Atlantic or lis trbu-
tarcs''
Your attention is called TO the modification of the
4th section of the act Of the l7th May, io4s, ito
provide for the ventilation of passenger vessels and
for other PURPOSES and also to the amendment OF
the act of 22d February, S47, 'to regulate the car
rage of passengers in merchant vessels"
The instructions issued by the department under
former laws this subject, under dates OF l1th
March and 18th May lS4I, and 9th June, 1913, are
u be pursued in the enforcement Of this act so far
N''''0NO w. NJ. MEREDITH,
Secretary Of the Treasury.
IAN Acr to extend the provisions of all laws now
in force relating TO the carriage of passengers in
merchant vessels, and the regulation thereof.
Be it enacted By the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentaues Of the United States Of -4merica, in Con-
gress assembled, That all vessels bound from any
port in the United States TO any port or place i'll the
Pacific Ocean its tributaries, or from any such
port or place 10 port III tue Oh
Atlantic or its tributaries, shall be subject TO the
provisions of all the laws in force relating 10 the
carriage of passengers in merchant vessels sailing to
and from foreign countries and the regulation there
Of except the fourth section Of the Act to provide
for the ventilation Of passenger vessels and Tor other
purposes approved May II, lSiS, relating to pro-
visions water and fuel; but the owners and masters
Of all such vessels shall in all furnish to each
passenger the daily supply of water therein mention
cd and they shall furnish, or cause the passengers
10 furnish for themselves, sufficient supply of good
and wholesome food: and in they shall fail 50
10 do, or shall provide uuwholesomc or unsuitable
provisions they shall b. subject TO the penalty pro-
vidcd in the said fourth section, in the passen
gers are put short allowance OF water or provi-
sions.
"SEC. 9. Ind be ii further enacted, That the act
entitled 'An act regulate the carriage of passen
gers in merchant vessels, approved February TWEEN
ty-second, eighteen hundred and forty seven, shall
be so amended that vessel passing into or through
the tropics shall be allowed TO carry the
Der Of passengers as vessels that do not enter the
tropics.
''SEC 8. And be II further enacted That this act
shall take effect on aud after the fifteenth day Of
March, eighteen hundred and forty nine"
Approx ed March 3, Isl ~.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, March g. 1919.
The above is true copy Of the original roll.
w. s. DERRICK, G. G.