The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-27
ROANOKE. VA, FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY q, 1891.

hundred miles or fraction thereof sailed
outward, and the same sum for the Sec
Ond five hundred miles or fraction
thereof sailed inward, and thirty cents
per gross registered ton for each thou
sand miles thereafter, and pro rata for
any distance sailed less than one thou
sand miles after the first thousand miles
sailed:
Provided, That payment shall not be
made for moro than seven thousand
miles sailed on either an outward or
inward voyage, and that tho foreign
port to which ths voyage is made shall
dc distant more than seventy miles sea-
ward from the ocean or gulf boundary of
tho United States; and such payments
to any vessel as aforesaid shall BIO paid
TO the owner or owners thereof upon
proof Of tho distance actually sailed,
the distance to be ascertained and the
payment to be lac under such regula-
lions as the Secretary of the Treasury
shall prescribe and promulgate; dis
tances between ports to be determined
by measurements, which shall be fur
nished by the United States Hydro
grapic Office to the Bureau OF Naviga-
tlon. The payments at tho rate of
thirty cents per ton for each one thou
sand miles sailed, as herein provided,
shall continue for the term of ten wears
at that rate, n thereafter for another
term OF nine years at j reduction of
three cents per o each year upon each
one thousand miles sailed, and pro "a
for any less distance.
Sec. .. That no vessel shall be en-
titled to the benefits of this except such
vessels whose entire cargo be loaded at
a port or ports of the United States and
discharged at one or moreforcign ports,
or whose entire cargo shall be loaded at
a or two foreign ports and discharged
at q port or ports in the United States;
nor shall n vessel be entitled to receive
payment under this act unless it shall
have freight on board at the time of
sailing, to the amount, in tons, weight
or measurement, of at least 25 per cent.
OF the net register TONNAGE 9. 240 pounds
or forty cubic feet to make a ton of
cargo.
Soc. 3. That no vessel shall be en-
titled to the benefits of this act unless
all the officers thereof shall be citizens
of tho United States, in conformity
with the existing laws; ROE unless upon
each departure from rho United States
the following proportion of the crew
shall be citizens of tho United States,
to wit: During the first two years this
act shall DO in force, one-SiXth thereof,
during the next three succeeding years,
one-third thereof, and during the re-
maing term of this act, at least one
half thereof, nor unless there be carried
on vessels of less han 1 900 tons gross
register one native born apprentice, and
on vessels Of 1000 tons and upward ono
such apprentice for each thousand ions
or three .fourths fraction thereof.
Sec. 4. That, to owners of vessels al
ready built, payment under this act
shall DO made for such time only as each
shall stand inspection and hold char
'acter, If woodruff, not lower than the
second grade (A119), in a scale of six
grades, in the Record OF American and
Foreign Shipping, or the corresponding
classification in any other Incorporated
American register of shipping tina has
or shall have the unqualified endorse
ments of the boards of marine under
writer's of New Orleans, La, New York,
n. y, Philadelr hia, Pa, Boston, Mass,
and San Francisco, Cal. If iron or steel
built, payments shall be made for such
time only as each vessel shall stand in
spection and hold character, not lower
than the second class (A1, thirteen
years., in the Record of American and
Foreign Shipping or the corresponding
classification III any other Incorporated
American register of shipping that has
or Shall have the unqualified indorse-
'ments Of the boards of underwriters of
New Orleans, La, New York, N. ",
Philadelphia, Pa, Boston, Mass, and
San Francisco, Cal.
Sec. S. That vessels keel-laid and
build after the passage of this act. in
order to be entitled to after
losing or lapsing from class in the first
grade If wood-built, or from the first
class or division if iron or steel built,
must have been so well constructed as
to have been classed originally in the
highest grade of tho first class, or first
division, to wit: If wood-built, A /,
twelve years; and if iron or steel built,
A l., sixteen years, in the Record of
American or Foreign Shipping, or the
corresponding classification in n
other incorporated American register of
shipping that has or shall have the un-
qualified Endorsements of the boards of
marine underwriters of New Orleans,
Louisiana, New York, New York, Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, Boston, Massa-
chusetts, and San Francisco, California;
the foregoing classification to be subject
to the approval Of the bureau of naviga-
ton, in the discretion of the Secretary
of the Treasury. Vessels so built and
Chased for tho highest character shall
receive payments as in section four pre-
vided for vessels already built. Vessels
unbiased in tho register named in this
act, or in an American register whose
rules for building and inspection are
fully equal in requirements, and all YES
sells, whose class has expired, or been
suspended or withdrawn, shall be olsen
titled to payments while this disqualif-
cation exists.
Sec. 6. That the Government OF the
United States shall have the prior right,
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