Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-02-06
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Second Session of the Fort V
Second Congress.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
[GENER NATURE.-No. III
CONTINUED.
PROTECTION OF SEAMEN

i Sec. 81. That no wages due or accruing
to any seaman or apprentice shall be sub
ject to attachment or arrestment from
any court; and every payment of wages
to a seaman or apprentice shall be valid in
law, notwithstanding any previous sale or
assignment of wages, or of such wages, or
of any attachment, incumbrance, OF ar
restment thereon and no assignment or
sale of such wages, or of salvage made pri-
or to the accruing thereO, shall bind the
party making the same, except such ad-
vanced securities asare provided for in this
act. ..---
Sec. e. That every person who, not be-
ing in the United States service, and not
being duly authorized by law for the pur-
pose, goes on board any ship about to ar
rive at the place of her destination Before
her actual arrival, ane before she has been
completely moored, without permissioner
of the master, shall, for every such Of
Tense, incur penalty not exceeding two
hundred dollars, and shall be liable to inn
prisonment for any period not exceeding
six months; and the master or person i'll
charge of said ship may take any such
person so going on board as aforesaid into
custody, and deliver him up forthwith
to any constable or police officer, to be by
him taken before any justice of the peace,
and to be dealt with according tn the pro-
visions of this act.
Sec. 6S. That if, within twenty-four
hours after the arrival of any ship at any
port in the United States, any person,
then being on board such ship, solicits
any seaman to become ledger at the
house of any person letting lodgings for
hire, or takes out of such ship any effects
of any seaman except under his personal
direction, and with the permission of the
master, he shall, for every such offense, in
cur penalty not exceeding fifty dollars,
| or shall be liable to imprisonment for any
period not exceeding three months,
| Sec. 81. That all penalties and forfeit
cry whereof no specific mode is hereinbe-
fore provided, shall and may be recovered
with costs, either in any circuit court of
/ the United States, or at the suit of any
person by information to any information
| to any district attorney in any port of the
| United States, where or near to where the
offense shall be committed or the offender
| shall be; and in case of conviction I'M
der this act, and the sum imposed as a pen
atty by the court shall not be paid either
Immediately after the conviction OF with
in such period as the court shall at the
time of the conviction appoint it shall be
lawful for the court to commit the offend
er to prison, there to be imprisoned foI
Il the term or terms hereinbefore provided
in case of such offense, the commitment
to be terminable upon payment of the
amount and costs and all penalties and
forfeitures mentioned in this ct, for which
no special application is hereinbefore pro.
vided, shall, when recovered, be paid and
applied in manner following, that is tC
say so much as the court and be RENTED
from time to time, by order of the Judge
to the treasury of the United States, and
appropriated as provided for in section fif