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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. (AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE.) 



States, in the manner provided by law, to serve on a 

 voyage to any port, or for the round trip from and to 

 the port of departure, or for a definite time, whatever 

 the destination. The master of a vessel making regu- 

 lar and stated trips between the United States and a 

 foreign country may engage a seaman for one or more 

 round trips, or for a definite time, or on the return of 

 said vessel to the United States may reship such sea- 

 man for another voyage in the same vessel, in the 

 manner provided by law, without the payment of ad- 

 ditional fees to any" officer for such reshipment or re- 

 engagement. 



SEC. 20. That every master of a vessel in the foreign 

 trade may engage any seaman at any port out of the 

 United States, in the manner provided by law, to 

 serve for one or more round trips from and to the port 

 of departure, or fora definite time, whatever the des- 

 tination : and the master of a vessel clearing from a 

 port of the United States with _ one or more seamen 

 engaged in a foreign port as herein provided shall not 

 bo required to reship in a port of the United States the 

 seamen so engaged, or to give bond, as required by 

 section 4576 of the Revised Statutes, to produce said 

 seamen before a boarding officer on the return of said 

 vessel to the United States. 



SEC. 21. That the word "port" as used in sections 

 4178 and 4334 of the Revised Statutes, in reference 

 to painting the name and port of every registered or 

 licensed vessel on the stern of such vessel, shall be 

 construed to mean either the port where the vessel is 

 registered or enrolled, or the place in the same dis- 

 trict where the vessel was built or w-here one or more 

 of the owners reside. 



SBC. 22. That until the provisions of section 1, 

 chapter 376, of the laws of 1882, shall be made appli- 

 cable to passengers coming into the United States by 

 land-carriage, said provisions shall not apply to pas- 

 sengers coming by vessels employed exclusively in 

 the trade between the ports of the United States and 

 the ports of the Dominion of Canada or the ports of 

 Mexico. 



SEC. 23. That sections 3976 and 4203 of the Revised 

 Statutes of the United States, and all other compul- 

 sory laws and parts of laws that oblige American 

 vessels to cany the mails to and from the United 

 States arbitrarily, or that prevent the clearance of 

 vessels until they shall have taken mail matter on 

 board, be and the same are hereby repealed: but 

 such repeal shall not take effect until the first day of 

 April, 1885. 



SEC. 24. That section 2906 of the Revised Statutes 

 be amended by striking out the words " propelled in 

 whole or in part by steam," so that said section as 

 amended shall read as follows : 



" SEC. 296G. When merchandise shall be imported 

 into any port of the United States from any foreign 

 country in vessels, and it shall appear by the bills of 

 lading "that the merchandise so imported is to be de- 

 livered immediately after the entry of the vessel, the 

 collector of such port may take possession of such 

 merchandise and deposit the same in bonded ware- 

 house ; and when it does not appear by the bills of 

 lading that the merchandise so imported is to be im- 

 mediately delivered, the collector of the customs may 

 take possession of the same and deposit it in bonded 

 warehouse, at the request of the owner, master, or 

 consignee of the vessel, on three days' notice to such 

 collector after the entry of the vessel." 



SEC. 25. That section 2872 of the Revised Statutes 

 be amended by adding thereto the following : 



11 Whcj a the license to unload between the setting 

 and rising of the sun is granted to a sailing-vessel 

 under this section, a fixed, uniform, and reasonable 

 compensation maybe allowed to the inspector or in- 

 spectors for service between the setting and rising of 

 the sun, under such regulations as the Secretary of 

 the Treasury may prescribe, to be received by the 

 collector from the master, owner, or consignee of the 

 vessel, and to be paid by him to the inspector or in- 

 spectors." 



SEC. 26. Whenever any fine, penalty, forfeiture, 

 exaction, or charge arising under the laws relating to 

 vessels or seamen has been paid to any collector of 

 customs or consular officer, and application has been 

 made within one year from such payment for the re- 

 funding or remission of the same, the Secretary of the 

 Treasury, if on investigation he finds that such fine, 

 penalty, forfeiture, exaction, or charge was illegally, 

 improperly, or excessively imposed, shall have the 

 power, either before or after the same has been cov- 

 ered into the Treasury, to refund so much of such 

 fine, penalty, forfeiture, exaction t or charge as he may 

 think proper, from any moneys in the Treasury not 

 otherwise appropriatea. 



SEC. 27. That section 4501 of the Revised Statv 

 is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 



" SEC. 4501. He shall appoint a commissioner 

 each port of entry, which is also a port of ocean na\ . 

 gation, and which, in his judgment, may require the 

 same ; such commissioner to be termed a shipping 

 commissioner, and may, from time to time, remove 

 from office any such commissioner whom he may have 

 reason to believe does not properly perform his duty, 

 and shall then provide for the proper performance or 

 his duties until anotherperson is duly appointed in 

 his place : Provided, That shipping commissioners 

 now in office shall continue to perform the duties 

 thereof until others shall be appointed in their places. 

 Shipping commissioners shall monthly render a full, 

 exact, and itemized account of their receipts and ex- 

 penditures to the Secretary of the Treasury, and shall 

 determine their compensation and shall from time to 

 time determine the number and compensation of the 

 clerks appointed by such commissioner, with the ap- 

 proval of the Secretary of the Treasury, subject to the 

 limitations now fixed by law. The Secretary of the 

 Treasury shall regulate the mode of conducting busi- 

 ness in the shipping offices to be established oy the 

 shipping commissioners as hereinafter provided, and 

 shall have full and complete control over the same, 

 subject to the provisions herein contained; and all 

 expenditures by shipping commissioners shall be au- 

 dited and adjusted in the Treasury Department, in 

 the mode and manner provided for expenditures in 

 the collection of customs. All fees of shipping com- 

 missioners shall be paid into the Treasury of the 

 United States, and shall constitute a fund which shall 

 be used, under the direction of the Secretary of the 

 Treasury, to pay the compensation of said commis- 

 sioners and their clerks, and such other expenses as 

 he may find necessary to insure the proper adminis- 

 tration of their duties." 



SEC. 28. Before issuing any inspection certificate to 

 any steamer, the collector or other chief officer of 

 customs for the port or district shall demand and re- 

 ceive from the owners thereof, as a compensation for 

 the inspection and examinations made for the year, 

 the following sums, in addition to the fees for is- 

 suing enrollments and licenses now allowed by law, 

 according to the tonnage of the vessel: For eact 

 steam-vessel of one hundred tons or under, $10 ; 

 and for each and every ton in excess of one hun- 

 dred tons, five cents, in lieu of the fees now provided 

 by law. 



SEC. 29. That section 2776 of the Revised Statutes 

 is hereby amended by adding thereto the follow- 

 ing : 



" Provided, That vessels arriving at a port of entry 

 in the United States laden with coal, salt, railroad- 

 iron, and other like articles in bulk, may proceed to 

 places within that collection district to be specially 

 designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, by gen- 

 eral regulations or otherwise, under the superintend- 

 ence of customs officers, at the expense of the parties 

 interested, for the purpose of unlading cargoes of the 

 character before mentioned." 



SEC. 30. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with 

 the provisions of this act are hereby repealed ; and 

 this act shall take effect and be in force on and after 

 July 1, 1884. 



