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intended voyage or engagement, and the port or country at which 

 the voyage is to terminate. 



Second. The number and description of the crew, specifying their 

 respective employments. 



Third. The time at which each seaman is to be on board, to begin 

 work. 



Fourth. The capacity in wliich each seaman is to serve. 



Fifth. The amount of wages which eacli seaman is to receive. 



Sixth. A scale of the provisions which are to be furnished to each 

 seaman. 



Seventh. Any regulations as to conduct on board, and as to fines, 

 short allowance of provisions, or other lawful punishments for mis- 

 conduct, which may be sanctioned by Congress or authorized by the 

 Commandant of the Coast Guard not contrary^ to or not otherwise 

 provided for by law, which the parties agree to adopt. 



Eighth. Any stipulations in reference to advance and allotment of 

 wages, or other matters not contrary to law. (R.S. §4511; Mar. 3, 

 1897, ch. 389, § 19, 29 Stat. 691; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 

 829 ; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736 ; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, 

 §§ 101-104, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7875, 60 Stat. 1097.) 



Rules for shipping articles 

 46 U.S.C. 565 (R.S. 4512) 



The following rules shall be observed with respect to agreements: 



First. Every agreement, except such as are otherwise speciallypro- 

 vided for, shall be signed by each seaman in the presence of a Coast 

 Guard official to whom the duties of shipping commissioner have been 

 delegated. 



Second. When the crew is first engaged the agreement shall be 

 signed in duplicate, and one part shall be retained by such Coast 

 Guard official, and the other part shall contain a special place or 

 form for the description and signatures of persons engaged subse- 

 quently to the first departure of the ship and shall be delivered to the 

 master. 



Third. Every agreement entered into before such Coast Guard of- 

 ficial shall be acknowledged and certified under the hand and official 

 seal of such Coast Guard official. The certificate of acknowledgment 

 shall be indorsed on or annexed to the agreement; and shall be in the 

 following form : 

 "State of , County of : 



"On this day of , personally appeared before me, 



a Coast Guard official in and for the said county, A.B., CD., and 

 E.F., severally known to me to be the same persons who executed 

 the foregoing instrument, who each for himself acknowledged to me 

 that he had read or had heard read the same; that he was by me 

 made acquainted with the conditions thereof, and understood the 

 same; and that, while sober and not in a state of intoxication, he 

 signed it freely and voluntarily, for the uses and purposes therein 

 mentioned." (R.S. §4512; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§101-104, eff. 

 July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7875, 60 Stat. 1097.) 



