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First. If his allowance is reduced by any quantity not exceeding 

 one-third of the quantity specified by law, a sum not exceeding 50 

 cents a day. 



Second. If his allowance is reduced by any more than one-third 

 of such quantity, a sum not exceeding $1 a day. 



Third. In respect of bad quality, a sum not exceeding $1 a day. 



But if it is shown to the satisfaction of the court before which 

 the case is tried that any provisions, the allowance of which has been 

 reduced, could not be procured or supplied in sufficient quantities, or 

 were unavoidably injured or lost, or if by reason of its innate quali- 

 ties any article becomes unfit for use and that proper and equivalent 

 substitutes were supplied in lieu thereof, the court shall take such 

 circumstances into consideration and shall modify or refuse com- 

 pensation, as the justice of the case may require. This section shall 

 not apply to fishing or whaling vessels or yachts. 



Weights and measures 



46 U.S.C. 668 (R.S. 4571) 



Every master shall keep on board proper weights and measures 

 for the purpose of determining the quantities of the several provi- 

 sions and articles served out, and shall allow the same to be used 

 at the time of serving out such provisions and articles, in the pres- 

 ence of a witness, whenever any dispute arises about such quantities, 

 and in default shall, for every offense, be liable to a penalty of not 

 more than $50. 



Medicines 



46 U.S.C. 666 (R.S. 4569) 



Every^ vessel belonging to a citizen of the United States, bound 

 from a port in the ITnited States to any foreign port, or being of the 

 burden of seventy-five tons or upward, and bound from a port on the 

 Atlantic to a port on the Pacific, or vice versa, shall be provided with 

 a chest of medicines; and every sailing vessel bound on a voyage 

 across the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, or around Cape Horn, or the Cape 

 of Good Hope, or engaged in the whale or otlier fisheries, or in seal- 

 ing, shall also l)e provided with, and cause to be kept, a sufficient quan- 

 tity of lime or lemon juice, and also sugar and vinegar, or other 

 antiscorbutics, to be ser^•ed out to every seaman as follows: The mas- 

 ter of every such vessel shall serve the lime or lemon juice, and sugar 

 and vinegar, to the crew, within ten days after salt provisions mainly 

 have been served out to the crew, and so long afterward as such con- 

 sumption of salt provisions continues; the lime or lemon juice and 

 sugar daily at the rate of half an ounce each per day ; and the vinegar 

 weekly at the rate of half a pint per week for each member of the 

 crew. 



Penalty for failure to keep medicines 



46 U.S.C. 667 (R.S. 4570) 



If, on any such vessel, such medicines, medical stores, lime or lemon 

 juice, or other articles, sugar, and vinegar, as are required by section 



