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kahtla on Annette Island, in southeastern Alaska, in the year 1887 

 and subsequent years, as well as all descendants of such Indians, and 

 all other Indians who have since become and remained bona fide 

 residents of said Metlakahtla, Alaska, shall, if otherwise qualified, 

 be entitled to receive and obtain licenses as masters, pilots, and 

 engineers, as the case may be, of any and all steamboats and other 

 craft, and also licenses as operators of motorboats and other craft, 

 subject to the provisions of section 404 of this title, with the same 

 force and effect as if they had been citizens of the Ignited States; 

 any such Indian may be the owner of any such motorboat or other 

 craft, subject to the provisions of the said section, although such 

 Indian be not a citizen of the United States, without depriving said 

 motorboat or other craft of the benefits and pri\dleges of a vessel 

 of the United States. 



Certificates of eligibility for licenses to Indians 



46 U.S.C. 238 



A certificate* under the hand of any officer of the customs in Alaska, 

 to the effect that the applicant for one of the different licenses men- 

 tioned in section 237 of this title comes within one of the provisions 

 of said section, shall, together with the affidavit of the applicant to 

 that effect, be sufficient evidence of the fact that said applicant is 

 entitled to the privileges conferred upon said Indians by such section. 



Officers to assist in examinations; dismissal of official disclosing 

 source of information 



46 U.S.C. 234 (R.S. 4448) 



All officers licensed under the provisions of sections 214, 224, 226, 

 228, 229 and 230 of this title shall assist the Coast Guard in its ex- 

 amination of any vessels to which such licensed officers belong and 

 shall point out all defects and imperfections known to them m the 

 hull, equipment, boilers, or machinery of such vessel, and sliall also 

 make Imown to the Coast Guard at the earliest opportunity all acci- 

 dents or occurrences producing serious injury to the vessel, her 

 equipments, boilers, or machinery, and in default thereof the license 

 of any such officer so neglecting or refusing shall be suspended or 

 revoked. 



Drunkenness or neglect of duty by seamen 



18 U.S.C. 2196 



Whoever, being a master, officer, radio operator, seaman, appren- 

 tice or other person employed on any merchant vessel, by willful 

 breech of duty, or by reason of drunkenness, does any act tending 

 to the immediate loss or destruction of, or serious damage to, such 

 vessel, or tending immediately to endanger the life or limb of any 

 person belonging to or on board of such vessel; or, by willful breech 

 of duty or by neglect of duty or by reason of drunkenness, refuses 

 or omits to do any lawful act proper and requisite to be done by him 

 for preserving such vessel from immediate loss, destruction, or serious 

 damage, or for presendng any person belonging to or on board of 



