OFFICERS AND MERCHANT SEAMEN 201 



Exception as to shipping articles 



46 U.S.C. 566 (R.S. 4513) 



Section 564 of this title shall not apply to masters of vessels where 

 the seamen are by custom or agreement entitled to participate in the 

 profits or result of a cruise or voyage, nor to masters of coastwise 

 nor to masters of lake-going vessels that touch at foreign ports; but 

 seamen may, by agreement, serve on board such vessels a definite time, 

 or, on the return of any vessel to a port in the United States, may re- 

 ship and sail in the same vessel on another voyage. (R.S. §4513; 

 Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 252.) 



Penalty for shipping without agreement 



46 U.S.C. 567 (R.S. 4514) 



If any person shall be carried to sea, as one of the crew on board 

 of any vessel making a voyage as hereinbefore specified, without 

 entering into an agreement with the master of such vessel, in the 

 form and manner, and at the jjlace and times in such cases required, 

 the vessel shall be held liable for each such offense to a penalty of 

 not more than $200. But the vessel shall not be held liable for any 

 person carried to sea, who shall have secretly stowed away himself 

 without the knowledge of tlie master, mate, or of any of the officers of 

 the vessel, or who shall have falsely personated himself to the master, 

 mate, or officers of the vessel, for the purpose of being carried to sea. 

 (R.S. §4514.) 



Penalty for knowingly shipping seamen without articles 



46 U.S.C. 568 (R.S. 4515) 



If any master, mate, or other officer of a vessel knowingly receives, 

 or accepts, to be entered on board of any merchant vessel, any seaman 

 who has been engaged or supplied contrary to the provisions of title 

 53 of the Revised Statutes, the vessel on board of which such seaman 

 shall be found shall, for every such seaman, be liable to a penalty of 

 not more than $200. (R.S. § 4515.) 



Shipping seamen to replace those lost by desertion or casualty 



46 U.S.C. 569 (R.S. 4516) 



In case of desertion or casualty resulting in the loss of one or more 

 of the seamen, the master must ship, if obtainable, a number equal to 

 the number of those whose services he has been deprived of by deser- 

 tion or casualty, who must be of the same or higher grade or rating 

 with those whose places they fill, and report the same to the United 

 States consul at the fii-st port at which he shall arrive, without in- 

 curring tlie penalty prescribed by sections 567 and 568 of this title. 

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

 (R.S. § 4516; Dec. 21, 1898, ch. 28, §§ 1, 26, 30 Stat. 755, 764; Mar. 4, 

 1915, ch. 153, § 1, 38 Stat. 1164.) 



Shipping seamen in foreign ports 



46 U.S.C. 570 (R.S. 4517) 



Every master of a merchant vessel who engages any seaman at a 

 place out of the United States, in which there is a consular officer 



