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 '1‘u·mn 1.m.—-MERCHANT SEAMEN.——Ch. 2. 873 “Stnte of ——, County of ·———: f‘Qn this —— day of —————, personally ap ared before me, a shippmgcommissioner in and for the said county, A. E, C. D., and E. F., severally known to me to be the same ersons who executed the fore oin instrument, who each for himself achnowledged to me that he hadgread or had beard 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 in_toxication, he signed it freely and voluntarily, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.” Sec. 4513. .The [ preceding aectokm] [section forty -five hundred and Exqeption as to eleven] shall not apply to masters of vessels where the seamen are by “l“PP“*l¢‘“*l°l°S- custom or agreement entitled to rticipate in the profits or result of a 7 June, 1872, C, cruise or voyage nor ton1astersof):oastwise nor to masters of lake- going 322, S- 12, \’· 17, P- vessels that touch at foreign ports; but seamen may, by agreement, serve 264- on board such vessels a definite time, O1', on the return of any vessel t06g2z, 1;°Qb" ,12% c' a port in the United States, may reship and sail in the same vessel on° 'I` ` another voyage, without the payment of additional fees to the shippingcommissioner, by either the seamen or the master. Sm. 4514. If an person shall be carried to sea, as one of the crew on Penalty for shipboard of any vessel making a voyage as hereinbefore specified, without1>i¤8 W l f h 0 ut entering into an agreement with the master of such vessel, in the form “;gl‘{‘§’f;___ and manner, and at the place and times in such cases required, the vessel 7 June, 1872, c. shall be held liable for each such offense to a penalty of not more than 322, ¤· It V- 17· P- two hundred dollars. But the vessel shall not be held liable for any 265* person carried to sea, who shall have secretly stowed away himself without the knowledge of the master, mate, or of any of the officers of the vessel, or who shall have falsely personated himself to the master, mate, or oflioers of the vessel, for the purpose of being carried to sea. Sec. 4515. If any master, mate, or other officer of a vessel knowingly _ Penaltyiorknowreceives, or accepts, to be entered on board of any merchant—vessel, any ¤¤8lY ¤f}¤{;l>¤¤S¤¤!· seaman who has been engaged or sup lied contrary to the provisions:}:: mt °‘" °m' of this Title, 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 two _Il”'l--S·1*»P-265- hundred dollars. The U. »~. The Steamship City of Mexico, 11 Blatch., 489. Sec. 4516. In case of desertion, or of casualty resultinr in the loss Lostscameumuy of one or more seamen, the master may ship a number cqusi-l to the num- l’°_’°Pl*F€d- __ __ ber of whose services he has been deprived by desertion or casualty, and 7 June, 1872, C, report the same to the United States consul at the first port at which he 322, S- 14, v- 17, p- shali arrive, without incurring the penalty prescribed by the two preced- 265- in sections. _ Sec. 4517. Every master of a merchant-vessel who engages any sea-_ Shippingseamen man at a place out of the United States, in which there is a consular K'f°'€“ P°"·S· oflicer or commercial agent, shall, before carrying such seaman to sea, Ibid., s. 15. procure the sanction of such officer, and shall engage seamen in his presence; and the rules governing the engagement o seamen before a shipping-commissioner in the United States, shall apply to such engagements made before a consular officer or commercial agent; and u on every such engagement the consular officer or commercial agent sliall indorse upon 510 agreement his sanction thereof, and an attestation to the effect that the same has been signed in his presence, and otherwise dul made. Slice. 4518. Every master who engages any seaman in any place in Penalty for viowhich there is a consular officer or commercial agent, otherwise than asl‘*;!“8 P’°°°d“*B required by the receding section, shallincur a penalty of not more than @-1 - one hundred dollars, for which penalty the vessel shal be held liable. Ibid- Szo. 4519. 'l`he master shall, at the commencement of every voyage Posting copy of or engagement, cause a legible copy of the agreement, omitting signa- ¤8*°°¤¤°¤*· tures, to be placed or posted up in such part of the vessel as to be acces- Ibid.,s.20,p.266. sible to the crew; and on default shall be liable to a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars.