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SUBCHAPTER 6J.— SHIPMENT AND DISCHARGE 



Shipment of crews; shipping agreements 



46 U.S.C. 563 



Coast Guard officials to whom the duties of shipping commissioners 

 have been delegated may ship crews for any vessel engaged in the 

 coastwise trade, or the trade between the United States and the Do- 

 minion of Canada, or Newfoundland, or the West Indies, or the Re- 

 public of Mexico, at the request of the master or owner of such vessel. 



Wlien a crew is shipped by such Coast Guard official for any Ameri- 

 can vessel in the coastwise trade, or the trade between the United 

 States and the Dominion of Canada, or Newfoundland, or the West 

 Indies, or Mexico, as authorized by this section, an agreement shall 

 be made with each seaman engaged as one of such crew in the same 

 manner as is provided by sections 564 and 565 of this title, not how- 

 ever including the sixth and eighth items of section 564 of this title, 

 and such agreement shall be posted as provided in section 577 of 

 this title, and such seaman shall be discharged and receive their 

 wages as provided by the first clause of section 596 of this title, and 

 also by sections 593-595, 597, 600, 608, 604, 625-628, 641-643, 644, 645 

 and 651 of this title ; but in all other respects such shipment of sea- 

 men and such shipping agreement shall be regarded as if both ship- 

 ment and agreement had been entered into between the master of a 

 vessel and a seaman without going before such Coast Guard official ; 

 Provided, That the clothing of any seaman shall be exempt from 

 attachment, and that any pei-son who shall detain such clothing 

 when demanded by the owner shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and shall be imprisoned not more than six months or fined 

 not more than $500, or both. (June 19, 1886, ch. 421, § 2, 24 Stat. 80 ; 

 Aug. 19, 1890, ch. 801, 26 Stat. 320 ; Feb. 18, 1895, ch. 97, 28 Stat. 

 667; Mar. 3, 1897, ch. 389, § 8, 29 Stat. 689: Apr. 11, 1904, ch. 1140, 

 33 Stat. 168 ; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 101-104, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 

 F.R. 7875, 60 Stat. 1097.) 



Shipping articles 



46 U.S.C. 564 (R.S. 4511) 



The master of every vessel bound from a port in the United States 

 to any foreign port other than vessels engaged in trade between the 

 United States and the British North American possessions, or the 

 West India Islands, or Mexico, or of any vessel of the burden of 

 seventy-five tons or upward, bound from a jjort on the Atlantic to a 

 port on the Pacific, or vice versa, shall, before he proceeds on such 

 voyage, make an agreement, in writing or in print, with every seaman 

 whom he carries to sea as one of the crew, in the manner hereinafter 

 mentioned; and every such agreement shall be, as near as may be, 

 in the form given in the table marked A, in the schedule annexed 

 to this chapter, and shall be dated at the time of the first signature 

 thereof, and shall be signed by the master before any seaman signs 

 the same, and shall contain the following particulars: 



First. The nature and, as far as practicable, the duration of the 



