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or owner, in addition to any wages he may have earned, a sum equal 

 in amount to one month's wages as compensation, and may, on adducing 

 evidence satisfactory to the court hearing the case, of having been 

 improperly discharged, recover such compensation as if it were wages 

 duly earned. (R.S. § 4527.) 



Conduct as affecting right 



46 U.S.C. 595 (R.S. 4528) 



No seaman or apprentice shall be entitled to w'ages for any period 

 during which he unlawfully refuses or neglects to work wlien required, 

 after the time fixed by the agreement for him to begin work, nor, 

 unless the court hearing the case othervvise directs, for any period 

 during which he is lawfully imprisoned for any offense committed 

 by him. (R.S. §4528.) 



Time for payment 



46 U.S.C. 596 (R.S. 4529) 



The master or owner of any vessel making coasting voyages shall 

 pay to every seaman his wages within two days after the termination 

 of the agreement under which he was shipped, or at the time such 

 seaman is discharged, whichever first happens; and in case of vessels 

 making foreign voyages, or from a port on the Atlantic to a port on 

 the Pacific, or vice versa, within twenty- four hours after the cargo 

 has been discharged, or within four days after the seaman has been 

 discharged, whichever fii-st happens ; and in all cases the seaman shall 

 be entitled to be paid at the time of his discharge on account of wages 

 a sum equal to one-third part of the balance due him. Every master 

 or owner who refuses or neglects to make payment in the manner 

 hereinbefore mentioned without sufficient cause shall pay to the seaman 

 a sum equal to two days' pay for each and every day during which 

 payment is delayed beyond the respective periods, which sum shall 

 be recoverable as wages in any claim made before the court; but this 

 section shall not apply to masters or owners of any vessel the seamen 

 of which are entitled to share in the profits of the cruise or voyage. 

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

 (R.S. § 4529; Dec. 21, 1898, ch. 28, §§ 4, 26, 80 Stat. 756, 764; Mar. 4, 

 1915, ch. 153, § 3, 38 Stat. 1164.) 



Payment at ports 



46 U.S.C. 597 (R.S. 4530) 



Every seaman on a vessel of the United States shall be entitled to 

 receive on demand from the master of the vessel to which he belongs 

 one-half part of the balance of his wages earned and remaining 

 unpaid at the time when such demand is made at every port where 

 such vessel, after the voyage has been commenced, shall load or 

 deliver cargo before the voyage is ended, and all stipulations in the 

 contract to the contrary shall be void : Provided^ Such a demand shall 

 not be made before the expiration of, nor oftener than once in five 

 days nor more than once in the same harbor on the same entry. Any 

 failure on the part of the master to comply with this demand shall 



