198 LAWS GOVERNING MARINE INSPECTION 



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First. If any such destitute seaman is so disabled or ill as to 

 unable to perform duty, the consular officer shall so certify in the 

 certificate of transportation, and such additional compensation shall 

 be paid as the Secretary of State shall deem equitable and proper. 



Second. Wlienever distressed or destitute seamen of the United 

 States are transported from foreign ports where there is no consular 

 officer of the United States, or from points on the high seas, to ports 

 of the United States, or from such forei^ ports or points on the high 

 seas to a port accessible to a consular officer of the United Stiites who 

 is authorized to assume responsibility on behalf of the Government 

 of the United States for the further relief and repatriation of such 

 seamen, there shall be allowed to the master or owner of each vessel 

 in which they are transported such reasonable compensation as 

 shall be deemed equitable by the Secretary of State. (R.S. §4578; 

 June 26, 1884, ch. 121, § 9, 23 Stat. 55 ; June 19, 1886, ch. 421, § 18, 

 24 Stat. 83 ; July 31, 1894, ch. 174, § 4, 28 Stat. 205 ; June 10, 1921, 

 ch. 18, § 304, 42 Stat. 24; May 7, 1930, ch. 227, 46 Stat. 261.) 



