Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-02-01

other shan the fees hereby authorized, for
provided him with employment, he shall,
for every such ofense, incur penalty not
exceeding one hundred dollars.
Sec. II. That the master of every ship
bound from a port in the United States to
any foreign port, or of any ship of the bur
den of seventy-five tons or upward, bound
from any port on the Atlantic to port on
the Pacific, or vice versa, shall, before he
proceeds on such voyage, make an agree
ment, III writing or in print, with every
seaman whom he carries to sea with him
as one OF the crew, in the manner herein
after mentioned; and every such agree
medt shall be i'll the form, as near as may
be, as hereunto in table ~ in the sched-
ule annexed, and shall be dated at the
time of the first signature thereof, and
shall be signed by the master before any
seaman signs the same, and shall contain
the following particulars, that is to say:
First, the nature as far as practicable, the
duration OF the intended voyage or en-
gagement, and the port or country at
which the voyage is to terminate; second
ly, the number and description of the crew
specifying their respective employments !;
thirdly, the time at which each seaman is
to be on board to begin work; fourthly,
the capacity in which each seaman is to
serve; filthy, the amount OF wages each
team is to receive; siXthly, scale of the
provisions which are to be furnished to
each seaman; seventhly, any regulations
as to conduct ON board, and as to fines,
short allowance of provirions, or other
lawful punishments for misconduct as
may be sanctioned by Congress as regula-
tons proper to be adopted, and which the
parties agree to adopt; eighthly, any stip-
ulatiOns in reference to advance and al
lotment of wages, and other matters not
contrary to law: Provided, That whenev-
er the master of any vessel shall engage
his crew, or any part of the same, in any
customs district where no shipping COM
missioner shall have been appointed I'M
der section one of this act, he may per-
form for himself the duties of such COM
missioner, in like manner as is provided
by the prOviso of section eight of this act:
Provided further, That this section shall
not apply to masters of vessels where the
seamen are by custom or agreement enti-
tied to participate in the profits or result
of Il cruise or voyage, nor to masters of
cOaStWiSe nor to masters of lake-gOing
vessels that touch at foreign ports; but
seamen may by agreement, serve on
board such vessels definite time, or on
the return of any vessel to 4 port i'll the
United States may reship and sail i'll the
same vessel on another voyage without
the payment of additional fees to the ship
ping commissioner by either the seamen
or the master. ...
See 13 That the following rules shall be OBJ
served with respect to agreements: First, every
agreement Except in such cases Of agreements
as are hereinafter specially provided for shall
be signed by each seaman in the presence of
a shipping commissioner secondly, when the
crew is first engaged the agreement shall be
signed in duplicate, and one part shall be re-
tanned by the shipping commissioner, and the
other part shall contain a special place or form
for the description and signatures Of persons en-
gagged subsequently to the first departure of the
ship, and shall be delivered to the master:
thirdly, every agreement entered into before a
shipping commissioner shall be acknowledged
and certified under the hand and official seal of
such commissioner, and shall De endorsed on or
annexed to such agreement, AMI such certificate
of acknowledgement shall be in form and man
ner following. to-wit:
Estate of ---. county of -:
ION this - day of --, personally APP
peared before me, a shipping commissioner in
and for the said county, \. B., G.. D., and Z.
f., severally known to me to be the same per-
sons who executed the foregoing instrument,
who each for himself acknowledged to me that
he had read or had heard read the same; that
he was by me made acquainted with the cond-
tions thereof, and understood the same; and
that while sober and not in a state of in zica-
ton, he signed it freely and voluntarily, for the
uses and purposes therein mentioned"
Sec. H. That, first, if any person shall be car
ried to sea as one of the crew on board of any
ship making voyage as hereinbefore specified
without entering into an agreement with the
master of said ship, in the form and manner
place and times hereby in such cases required,
the ship shall be held liable, and for each such
offense shall incur penalty not exceeding two
hundred dollars ProUided oLtcGys, That the
ship shall not be held liable for any person car
ried to sea who shall have secretly slowed away
himself without the knowledge of captain,
mate, or any of the officers of the ship, or who
shall have falsely pcrsonated himself to the
CAPTAIN, mate, or officers of the ship for the pur-
pose of being carried to sea; secondly, if any
master, mate, or other officer of ship know
ingly receives, or accepts to be entered on
board of any merchant ship, any seaman who
has been engaged or supplied contrary to the
provisions of this act, the ship on board of
which such seaman shall be found shall, for
every such lseaman, be liable to and incur n
penalty of 4 sum not exceeding two hundred
dollars PrOUided further, That in case of de-
sertion, or OF casualty resulting in the loss of
one or more seamen, the master may ship q
number equal 10 the number of whose services
and report the same to the United States con-
sui at the first port at which he shall arrive,
without mourning such penalty.
Sec ID. That every master of a merchant
ship Of the United States who engages any sea
man at a place out of the United States, in
which there is a concular officer or commercial
gent, shall, before carrying such seaman to
sea procure the sanction of such officer, and
shall engage seamen before such officer and
the same rules as are hereinbefore contained
with respect to the engagement of seaman be
fore q shipping commissioner in the United
States shall apply to such engagements made
before consular officer or commercial agent;
and upon every such engagement the consular
officer or commercial agent shall endorse upon
the agreement his sanction thereof, and an at
testation to the effect that the same has been
signed in his presence, and otherwise made as
hereby required; and every master who engag-
es any seaman in any place in which there is a
consular officer or commercial agent otherwise
than as hcreinbefore required shall incur pen
atty not exceeding one hundred dollars, for
which penalty the ship shall be held liable
and all such agreements so made shall be void,
and the seamen so engaged shall bo entitled to
recover the highest rate of wages of the port