192 LAWS GOVERNING MARINE INSPECTION 



Refusal to proceed when vessel found seaworthy 

 46 U.S.C. 655 (R.S. 4558) 



If, after judgment that such vessel is fit to proceed on her intended 

 voyage, or after procuring such men, provisions, stores, repairs, or 

 alterations as may be directed, the seamen, or either of them, shall 

 refuse to proceed on the voyage, he shall forfeit any wages that may 

 be due him. This section shall not apply to fishing or whaling vessels 

 or yachts. 



Appointment of inspectors by consul in foreign port 



46 U.S.C. 656 (R.S. 4559) 



Upon a complaint in writing, signed by the first and second officers 

 or a majority of the crew of any vessel, while in a foreign port, that 

 such vessel is in an unsuitable condition to go to sea because she is leaky 

 or insufficiently supplied with sails, rigging, anchors, or any other 

 equipment, or that the crew is insufficient to man her, or that her pro- 

 visions, stores, and supplies are not or have not been during the voyage 

 sufficient or wholesome, thereupon, in any of these or like cases the 

 consul shall cause to be appointed three persons of like qualifications 

 with those described in section 654 of this title who shall proceed to 

 examine into the cause of complaint and who shall proceed and be 

 governed in all their proceedings as provided by said section. This 

 section shall not apply to fishing or whaling vessels or yachts. 



Report of inspectors 



46 U.S.C. 657 (R.S. 4560) 



The inspectors appointed by any consul, in pursuance of the pre- 

 ceding section, shall have full power to examine the vessel and what- 

 ever is aboard of her, so far as is pertinent to their inquiry, and 

 also to hear and receive any other proofs which the ends of justice 

 may require; and if, upon a revicAv of the whole proceedings, the 

 consiil is satisfied therewith, he may approve the whole or any part 

 of the report, and shall certify such approval; or if he dissents, he 

 shall certify his reasons for dissenting. 



Discharge of crew on account of unseaworthiness; penalty for 

 sending unseaworthy vessel to sea 



46 U.S.C. 658 (R.S. 4561) 



The inspectors in their report sliall also state whether in their 

 opinion the vessel was sent to sea unsuitably provided in any im- 

 portant or essential particular, by neglect or design, or through 

 mistake or accident ; and in case it was by neglect or design, and 

 the consular officer approves of such finding, he shall discharge such 

 of the crew as request it, and shall require the payment by the master 

 of one month's wages for each seaman over and above the wages then 

 due, or sufficient money for the return of such of the crew as desire 

 to be discharged to the nearest and most convenient port of tlie United 

 States, or by furnishing the seamen who so desire to be discliarged 

 with employment on a ship agreed to by them. But if in the opinion 

 of the inspectors the defects or deficiencies found to exist have been 



