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arrive, and the collector shall report the same to the Commandant of 

 the Coast Guard and to the United States attorney in his district. 

 (K.S. §4575; Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 252; Feb. 14, 1903, 

 ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 829; Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, § 3, 34 Stat. 100; 

 Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736 ; 1946 Eeorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 101- 

 104, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.E. 7875, 60 Stat. 1097.) 



Production of copy of list on return of vessel; production of 

 persons named 



46 U.S.C. 677 (R.S. 4576) 



The master of every vessel bound on a foreign voyage or engaged 

 in the whale fishery shall exhibit the certified copy of the list of the 

 crew to the first boarding officer at the first port in the United States 

 at which he shall arrive on his return, and also produce the persons 

 mimed therein to the boarding officer, whose duty it shall be to exam- 

 ine the men with such list and to report the same to the collector ; and 

 it shall be the duty of the collector at the port of arrival, where the 

 same is different from the port, from which the vessel originally 

 sailed, to transmit a copy of the list so reported to him to the collector 

 of the port from which such vessel originally sailed. For each fail- 

 ure to produce any person on the certified copy of the list of the crew 

 the master and owner shall be severally liable to a penalty of $400, 

 to be sued for, prosecuted, and disposed of in such manner as penal- 

 ties and forfeitures which may be incurred for offenses against the 

 laws relating to the collection of duties; but such penalties shall not 

 be incurred on account of the master not producing to the first board- 

 ing officer any of the pei-sons contained in the list who may have been 

 discharged in a foreign country with the consent of the consul or vice 

 consul there residing, certified in writing, under his hand and official 

 seal, to be produced to the collector with the other persons composing 

 the crew, nor on account of any such person dying or absconding or 

 being forcibly impressed into other service of which satisfactory proof 

 si I a 11 also be exhibited to the collector. (R.S. §4576; Mar. 3, 1897, 

 ell. 389, § 3, 29 Stat. 688; Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, §3, 34 Stat. 100.) 



Mode (of discharge) 



46 U.S.C. Ul (R.S. 4549) 



All seamen discharged in the United States from merchant vessels 

 engaged in voyages from a port in the United States to any foreign 

 port, or, being of the burden of seventy-five tons or upward, from a 

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

 discharged and receive their wages in the presence of a duly author- 

 ized Coast Guard official to whom the duties of shipping commissioner 

 under title 53 of the Revised Statutes have been delegated, except in 

 cases where some competent court otherwise directs; and any master 

 or owner of any such vessel who discharges any such seaman belonging 

 thereto, or pays his wages within the United States in any other man- 

 ner, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $50. (R.S. § 4549; 

 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 101-104, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7875, 

 60 Stat. 1097.) 



