Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-04

the Secretary of Commerce and Labor
should cause to be made an enrolment OF
officers and men nowA and hereafter em-
pioyed in the merchant marine and deep
sea fisheries of the United States. who shall
receive an annual retainer at the end Of
each year as follows:
For each master or CHIEF he, engineer Of vessel Of
500; Tor each master or CHIEF snsinees q yes
So Eds g Loo gross tons 2. over eu. Of less than
q ss soss se
each mate or assistant engineer Of a vessel Of
srcss tons Or over 40 each mate or
or over, but Of less than 5000 gross tons, $55;
each s mste or assistant ensinser Of vessel nm
for each boy. SIS. q
Conditions Of the Subsidy.
The second section. prescribing the condi-
lions under which vessels engaged in for
eign trade shall be eligible to receive the
subventjons, is as follows:
In the Interest of the national defense and for
the performance Of the public services specified,
after July I, 1903. the Secretary Of the Treasury
Is directed to pay to the owner or owners Of any
vessel hereafter built and registered In the United
States or now duly registered by citizen citi-
{a) The sum Of IS per gross registered ton for
each vessel which has been engaged In the for
period of twelve months. including time necessar-
lily consumed In making annual or extraordinary
ton for each vessel which has been engaged In
the foreign trade by sea or the deep-sea fisheries
twelve months, including time necessarily con-
sumed in making extraordinary repairs; fc) the
sum OF $3.50 per gross registered ton for each
vessel which has engaged in the foreign trade
by sea or the deep-sea fisheries for a period of
six months or over but less than nine months.
extraordinary repairs: Provided That II, for rea-
SONS satisfactory to the Secretary Of Commerce
month. when not undergoing repairs or receiving
or dischargfng cargo the subvention shall be
Use Of Subsidized Vessels
Provision is made in the third section that
vessels receiving the subvention may be
taken by the United States. at a fair COM
pensation. Cor national defense or any pub
lie purpose. 1t provides also:
That when the Postmaster General requires, the
vessels shall carry mails free of charge.
That one sixth OF the crews shall be citizens Of
shall maintain during the period employed at
least class Al If steam vessel, and at least
now established by either the Record Of American
and Foreign shipping or the United States Stand
tion. or equivalent classification In any other reg
lister of shipping of at least equal merit
vessel shall be made in the United States. except
In cases where drydocking, is necessary and no
distanea OF Of 1 ss caPa t shall be within
when the repairs shall be desired.
10 OBTAIN the SuDVentlOn provided, propor-
tons of the crew must be enrolled as naval
volunteers.
Contracts for Carrying Mails
Sections and authorize and direct the
Postmaster General to enter into contracts,
for not less than five nor more than ten
years for the carrying of mails in steam-
ships built and registered in the United
States, between ports of the United States
and foreign ports ON the routes, at rates of
speed and for the amounts which are speci-
fed.
The same requirement as to the enroll
ment of naval volunteers is made of steam
ships obtaining mail contracts as Is exacted
of vessels obtaining subvention.
The tonnage tax ono foreign vessels en-
in section 8. w
Section relates to apprentices, and pro-
vides: Ola
That on proof that a vessel of the United States
has on any foreign voyage carried boys, citizens
of the United States. UNDER twenty-one years OF
age, suitably trained during; that voyage in sea-
manship or engineering in the proportion Of
for such vessel, and In addition one for each
thousand tons of her net registered tonnage there
shall be paid to the owner of the vessel an al
lowance equivalent to so per scentum of the ton
United States Of that vesselS from that voyage.
Such payment shall not be made after July l.
1907 except in respect of any boy who Is en-.
rolled in the naval volunteers, is an appren-
tice indentured In accordance with law.
Section 10 repeats all conflicting acts, and
section IL fixes July l. 1905. as the time the
proposed legislation shall take effect. n