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or certificate of service for the rating in which he is engaged, and 

 (f) that each lifeboatman possesses a certificate of efficiency. The 

 Commandant of the Coast Guard shall, by regulation, prescribe the 

 form and content of such reports and time of submitting them. This 

 subsection shall not apply to any ferry or any tug used in conne<'tion 

 with a ferry operation, if such ferry or tug is employed exclusively 

 in trade on the Great Lakes, lakes" (other than the Great Lakes), 

 bays, sounds, bayous, canals, and harbors, and is not engaged on an 

 international voyage. Any master who shall violate any provision 

 of this subsection or regulations established hereunder shall be subject 

 to a penalty of $500. {U.S. §4551; June 25, 1936, ch. 816, §3, 49 

 Stat. 1934; Mar. 24, 1937, ch. 49, § 1, 50 Stat. 49; Oct. 17, 1940, ch. 

 896, § 1, 54 Stat. 1200; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 101-104, ef!'. Jvdy 

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



Rules for settlement 



46 U.S.C. 644 (R.S. 4552) 



The following rules shall be observed with respect to the settlement 

 of wages: 



First. LTpon the completion before a Coast Guard official to whom 

 the duties of shipping commissioner have been delegated, of any dis- 

 charge and settlement, the master or owner and each seaman, respec- 

 tively, in the presence of such Coast Guard official, shall sign a mutual 

 release of all claims for wages in respect of the past voyage or engage- 

 ment, and such Coast Guard official shall also sign and attest it, and 

 shall retain it in a book to be kept for that purpose, provided both the 

 master and seamen assent to such settlement, or tlie settlement has been 

 adjusted by such Coast Guard official. 



Second. Such release so signed and attested, shall operate as a mu- 

 tual discharge and settlement of all demands for wages between the 

 parties thereto, on account of wages, in respect of the past voyage or 

 engagement. 



Third. A copy of such release, certified under the hand and seal of 

 such Coast Guard official to be a true copy, shall be given by him to 

 any party thereto requiring the same, and such copy shall be receivable 

 in evidence upon any future question touching such claims, and shall 

 have all the effect of the original of whicli it purports to be a copy. 



Fourth. In cases in which discharge and settlement before a Coast 

 Guard official to whom the duties of shipping commissioner have been 

 delegated are required, no payment, receipt, settlement, or discharge 

 otherwise made shall operate as evidence of the release or satisfaction 

 of any claim. 



Fifth. Upon payment being made by a master before a Coast Guaixi 

 official to whom the duties of shipping commissioner have been dele- 

 gated, such official shall, if required, sign and give to such master a 

 statement of the whole amount so paid; and such statement shall, 

 between the master and his employer, be received as evidence that he 

 has made the payments therein mentioned. (R.S. § 4552 ; 1946 Reorg. 

 Plan No. 3, §§ 101-104, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7875, 60 Stat. 1097.) 



