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 308 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 1602-1604. 1904. the offending person, company, or corporation shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every day’s failure or neglect to remove said connection and to cut off the current. Powers ¤f chief i¤· The chief inspector of electrical work is hereby authorized and ”°°t°r` empowered, with the approval of the Commissioners, to cause said connection to be removed and the current cut 0H upon such failure of the offending person, company, or corploration, and to refuse to permit said connection to be replaced and the current to be used until · the wiring shall be put in, proper and safe condition. E¤¤<>¢· Sec. 5. That this Act shall take effect ninety days from and after the approval thereof. Approved, April 26, 1904. APri1 26,1904. CHAP. 1603.-An Act To amend section twenty-four of the_Act approved Decem- [S· *375] ber twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled "An Act to amend the [Public, No. 163.] laws relating to American seamen, for the protection of such seamen,\and to promote commerce. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatv}ves of the United $,’”§§,,';§`,?},'},"${f"Qfc'f· States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of paragraph au;<:_fied3¤· v· 763. (a) of section twenty-four of the Act approved December twenty-first, ' eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled "An Act to amend the laws relating to American seamen, for the protection of such seamen, and to promote commerce," as reads ?‘ If any person shall demand or receive, either directly or indirectly, from any seaman or other person seeking employment as seaman, or from any person on his behalf, any remuneration whatever for providing him with employment, he shall for every such offense be liable to a penalty of not more than one hunm¥f)$l°°}g}¤8;f3:¤gfi;g drcd dollars," is hereby amended to read “If any person shall demand sulpimum scr, c or receive, either directly or indirectly, from any seaman or other per- '““d‘“"°‘"‘°" son seeking employment as seaman, or from any person on his behalf, Penalty, any remuneration whatever for providing him with employment, he shall for everysuch offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be imprisoned not more than six months or fined not more than five hundred dollars." E"°"‘· my ‘· ‘°°‘· SE;. 2,] Thlat tp? Act shall take effect on and after Julv first. nine` teen un re- an our. Approved, April 26, 1904. April 2ti,l90|. CHAP. 1604.-An Act To extend the time for completion of the East \Vashing- _____[_H· R; -’·*·f}·lA_____ ton Heights Traction Railroad Company. Publis-, No. IM. [ _ i Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re esentattves of the Ubzited nt-1¤ni»r¤tt·xi»iln.is1- the East Washington Heights Traction Railroad Companv is required "’$}%g"Q§{‘(I}§ged ,0, to complete and plut in operation its railway be, and the same hereby °°{:j{}*¢g$;¤— P 636 is, extended for the term of eighteen months from the passage of this amendcrtll' Act; P2-owderl, That failure to complete any portion of the routes as {,‘[§{}§§‘,,,,.,,mpmP_ provided in the charter of said company within the time herein limited shall operate to repeal the_authority to build such portion and shall cOil;»a§i$p.,1»;·¢,:11»r not repeal the charter of said company; and that any connecting comp` " pany may lease or purchase the portion of said routes which  com- Ammdmem pleted \Y)Itllll'l the, Said eighteen months.. - thpnc. -. That Longress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal is Act. Approved. April 26, 190+.
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