The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-08
PROTECTION OF SEAMEN.

| SEC. 81 That no wages due or aceruinp to anv
seaman or apprentice shall be subject to attachment
OF arrestment from any court; and every payment of
wages to seaman or apprentice shall be valid in
law, notwithstanding any previous sale or assignment
OF SUCH wages, or OF any attachment, incumbrance,
OF arfestment thereon and no assignment or sale of
such wages or of salvage made prior to the accruin
thereof, shall bind the party making the same
in this act. f A0i
SEC. 81. That every person who, net being in the
United States service and not being duly authorized
to arrive at the place Of her destination before her
actual arriua and before she has been completely
moored, Without permission of the MASTER SHALL for
every such offense incur penalty not exceeding two
hundred dollars and shall be liable to Imprisonment
for any period not exceeding six months; and The
master or person in charge of said ship NAV take anv
such person so going on board aforesaid into ems
tody and deliver him up forthwith to any constable
or poce officer, to be by him taken before any ms
the peace and to be dealt with accarng the
provisions of this act W WIZ
SEC g. That ii, within twenty -four hours after
the arrival OF any ship at any port i'm the United
states, any person, then being on board such shin
solicits any seaman to become loiger at the bonse
Of any person letting odgnss for hire or takes ont of
sch snip any effecs OF any seaman, except under his
personal direction and with the permission Of tbs
master, he shall for ecery such ofense, incur men
atty not exceeding fifty dollars shall be Iiable to
imprisonment for any period not exceeding three
months. INV
SEC. ca. That all penalties and forfeituras ;,onoSo
by this act and for the recovery whereof no specific
mode is hereinbefore provided shall and may he re-
covered with costs either in any circuit court of the
al
the United States at the suit of any person nv in
Formation to any district attorney in any port of ,ha
Unitel States, where near to where the ofien.e
shall be committed or the offender shall bo: and in
case Of conviction under this act and the sum inn
posed penalty by the court shall not be paid either
Immediately AFTER the conviction within such period
the court shall at the time of the CONVECTION an
po1nt it shall be lawful for the court to commit The
offender to prison, there to be imprisoned for the fern
or terms herenbefore provided in case of such onse
the commitment to be terminable upon PAYMENT of
the amount and costs; and all penalties and for
FIXTURES mentioned in this act for which no snecal
application is hereinbefore provided shall when re-
covered, be paid AMI applied in manner FOLLOWING
that is to say: much the court shall determine
and the residue shall be paid to the court and be re-
mitted from time to time, by order of the Judge To
the treasury Of the United States and appronTiataS
as provided for in section fifty of this act Pyopided
dtcays Thai it shall be lawful for the court before
which any proceeding shall be instituted for the re-
covery OF any pecunary penalty imposed by this act
to mitigate or reduce such penalty as to such c0urf
shan appear just and reason able but such penalty
shall be redrcen 10 less than one-third of original
amount Prorided also, That all proceedings 50 to
be Instituted shall be commenced within TWO years
next after the commission of the ofense if the same
shall have been committed at or beyond the Cane of
Good Hope or Cape Horn, or within one year if com
mitted elsewhere, or within two months after the