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 80 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 421. 1886. R- S- 41550-807; same; issuing of license or granting of certificate of registry, record, or ‘388Q71’· M6? *382 enrollment, including all indorsements on the same and bond and oath; p'R_ SQ 4197 ,,_ 809. indorsement of change of master; certifying and receiving manifest, in- 4381, p. 846; 4382; cluding master’s oath, and permit; granting permit to vessels licensed P- 847- for the fisheries to touch and trade; granting certificate of payment of 43% S·'€2.4·P·S44? tonnage dues; recording bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecatron. or con- R_’§ '4215,,,_ 81;;, veyance, or the discha e of such mortgage or hypotheeationg furnish- Vo1.2$, p. 57. ing certificate of title Eiirnishing the crew-list, including bond; certifi- R-$· 4193-1*-809; cate of protection to s men; bill of health; shipping or discharging of ‘32,2·%’·f}% 885 seamen, as provided by title fifty-three of the Revised Statutes and section RQ3Q23S.,;},); 524: two of this act; apprenticing boys to the merchautservice; inspecting, R. S. 4612, p. nee. examining, and licensing steam-vessels, including inspecuon-certificate R- S- 445***- P- 863- and copies thereof; and licensing of master, engineer, pilot, or mate of a vessel; and all provisions of laws authorizing or requiring the collection of fees for such services are rep led, such repeal to take effect July first, C¤11¤¤¢¤¤>- Q1¤·» eighteen hundred and eighty-s[;1§ Collectors or other officers of customs, P wholly or partly by fees shall make a detailed report of such services, and the fees provided by law, to the Secretary of the Treasury, under such regulations as that officer may prescribe; and the Secretary of the Treas- Compensation. ury shall allow and pay, from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, said officers such compensation for said services as each would have received prior to the passage of this act; also such compensation to clerks of shipping commissioners as would have been paid them Prvvirv- had this act not passed: Provided, That such services have, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, been necessarily rendered. Feesfqrshipping J S1·:c. 2. That shipping commissioners may ship and discharge crows f,'f,`;° ;‘Qcf’°:,.mg United States and the Dominion of Canada, or Newfoundland, or the - ,-,,4,,},,,,] 0,,1,.;,,1;; West Indies, or the Republic of Mexico, at the request of the master or R-S.4612.p-896- owner of such vessel, the shipping and discharging fees in such cases to be one·half that prescribed by section forty-six hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes, for the purpose of determining the compensation of shipping commissioners. Vol, 23, chap. Sec. 3. That section ten of the act entitled •‘Au act to remove certain 121- P- 56, ¤¤¤¤¤<r burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American °d· foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes," approved June twenty- six, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be amended by striking out the words “That it shall be lawful for any seaman to stipulate in his shipping agreement for an allotment of any portion of the wages which he may earn to his wife, mother, or other relative, but to no other person or Allotment ofscn- corporation", and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “That it shall Wfaezyjzfg be lawful for any seaman to_stipulate in his shipping agreement for an dem · allotment of all or any portion of the wages which he may earn tf his wife, mother, or other relative, or to an original creditor in liquidation of any just debt for board or clothing which he may have contracted prior to engagement, not exceeding ten dollars per month for each month of the time usually required for the voyage for which the seaman has shipped, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, but no allotment to any other person or corporation shall be lawful.? And said section ten is further amended by striking out all of thelast paragraph after the words " vessels of the United States," p,,,,;,,, ,-0, ,.,0. and inserting in lieu of such words stricken out the following: “And any lation the same for master, owner, consignee, or agent of any foreign vessel who has vio- lated this section shall be liable to the same penalty that the master, Sum wsu, egzpggogrnagent ot a vessel of the United States would be for a similar R.s.,42s0,p.a27, Sm:. 4. That section forty-two hundred and ci h -nine of ‘ ¤¤°¤*1°0- Slatéites ;>2e8gm§i;1ded so as to regd as follows: g ty the Revised 12Yo; 533, section eighteen of an act entitled *An act m removi certain burdens ed] · r on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign
 * ‘;r}:fl:z,_“"‘°“ inspectors of steam-vessels, a shipping commissioners who are paid
 * 0 ‘}"°h“'8:';8 for any vessel engaged in the coastwise trade, or the trade between the
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