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 884 '1`rrmc Lm.——MERCHAN'1` SEAMEN.-Ch. 5. use, or to be deficient in quantity, the person making such examination shall certify the same in writing to the master of the ship. If such master does not thereupon provide other proper provisions or water, where the same can be had, in lieu of any so certified_ to be of a bad quality and unfit for use, or does not procure the requisite quantity of any so certified to be insufhcient in quantity, or uses any tP1’0V1S1llS·0],‘ water which have been so certified ashaforesagl ltobpe o bad qaalitg and unfit for use, he shall, in every suc case, ia e to a pena ty o not more than one hundred dollars; and upon every such examination the officers making or directing the same s all enter a statement of the result of the examination in the log-book, and shall send a report thereof to the district judge for the judicial district embracing the port to which such vessel is bound; and such report shall be received in evidence in any legal prociefedangséi [See S 5347; h I _ t _ d t th Ferfeiture for `so. 4566. the officer tow om any suc com ain ,1n regar o e false °°’“Pl“l“l· provisions or the water, is made, certifies in such) statement that there Ibid.,s. 37. was no reasonable grpund for} sipch complaint, each of the paptieps so com lainin shall be iable to or eit tot e master or owner, ou o is waggs, a sudn not exceeding one week’s wages. P€¤¤l¤¤i0¥) *0 Sec. 4567. If any seamen, while on boar any vessel, shall state to the fim'" °°mPl8mt‘ master that they desire t.o make complaint, in accordance with the two Ibid.,s.38. preceding sections, in regard to the provisions or the water, to a competent officer, against the master, the master shall, if the vessel is then at a place where there is any such officer, so soon as the service of the vesse will permit, and if the vessel is not then at such a place,·so soon after her first arrival at such place as the service of the vessel will permit, allow such seamen, or any of them, to go ashore, or shall send them ashore, `"fripif f"?§Ell1i$°bZhill.£i§’{..“§“{§J’Zfi?”.i’l°.$l.l°m’E?.$'Zi?$`.$l$.T§E`.Y.l?f3.E an s a, in , n · · dollars. -‘\ll0W¤¤00fo¤‘¤?· Sec. 4568. If, during a voyage, the allowance of any of the provisions {l‘g?:°" °l P"`"` which any seaman has, by his agreement, stipulated for, is reduced, ex- °;%..— cept in accordance with any regulations for reduction by way of punish- Ib*d·»¤·39·P·27O· ment, contained in the agreement, and also for any time during which such seaman willfully, and without sufficient cause, refuses or neg ects to perform his duty, or is lawfully under confinement for misconduct, either on board or on shore; or if it is shown that any of such provisions are, or have been during the voyage, bad in duality and unfit for use, the seaman shall receive by way of compensation for such reduction or bad quality, according to the time of its continuance, the following sums, to be paid to him in addition to and to be recoverable as wages: First. If his allowance is reduced by any quantity not exceeding onethird ofdthe quantity specified in the agreement, a sum not exceeding fifty centsa av. Second. If his allowance is reduced by more than one-third of such quantity, a sum not exceeding one dollar a day. This ,_ _In respect of bad quality, a sum not exceeding one dollar a day. _ But if it is shown to the satisfaction of the court before which the case is tried, that any provisions, the allowance of which has been reduced, could not be procured or supplied in sufficient quantities, or were unavoidably injured or lost, and that pro er and equivalent substitutes were supplied in lieu thereof, in a reasonable time, the court shall take such circumstalnces into canideration, and shall modify or refuse compensation, as the justice o the case may require. Medicines. Sec. 4569. Every vessel belonging to a citizen of the United States, d-Ibid., S_ 40_ bound from a port in the United States to any foreign port, or being of ? :38 Xllfdétl of seventy-five [ons or pPw3]·d,.gud bound fygm gg pgrt on 36, Freeman rj e tlantic to a port on the Pacific, or vice versa, shall be provided gapggh Bj,,mh_ & with a pliieaptgf medicigesjaang every sailing-yiesgel bppnd on ahvoyagtv ., . across e an ic or aci c cean, or aroun a e orn or the `a of Good Hope, or engaged in the whale or other figheries, or in sealing? shall also be provide with, and cause to be kept, a sufficient quantity of lime or lemon juice, and also sugar and vinegar, or other anti-scorbu-