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anew, or being licensed or enrolled, | limits of Georgia and the river Peris afterwards registered, or being dido. registered, is afterward enrolled or licensed, she is in every such case enrolled, licensed, or registered by her former name. Every licensed vessel must have her name and the port to which she belongs painted on her stern in the manner prescribed for registered vessels, under a penalty of $20. The Secretary of the Treasury may authorise the surveyor of any port of delivery to enrol and license vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, in like manner as collectors of ports of entry are authorised to do.

No merchandise shall be transported, under penalty of forfeiture thereof, from one port of the United States to another port of the United States in a vessel belonging wholly or in part to a subject of any foreign power; but this does not prohibit the sailing of any foreign vessel from one to another port of the United States, provided no merchandise other than imported in such vessel from some foreign port, and which has not been unladen, is carried from one port or place to another in the United States. The master of such foreign vessel must in all cases, previous to her departure, deliver to the collector of the district duplicate manifests of the cargo on board, or if none, make oath thereto, and obtain a permit from the collector authorising him to proceed to the place of his destination.

The sea-coast and navigable rivers of the United States are divided into three great districts: the first includes all the collection districts on the sea-coasts and navigable rivers between the eastern limits of the United States and the southern limits of Georgia; the second includes all those between the river Perdido and the Rio Grande; and the third includes all those between the southern

Whenever any vessel of the United States, registered according to law, is employed in going from any one district in the United States to any other district, such vessel and the master thereof, with the goods she may have on board previous to her departure from the district where she may be, and also upon her arrival in any other district, is subject, except as to the payment of fees, to the same regulations, provisions, penalties, and forfeitures, and the like duties are imposed on like officers as are provided for vessels licensed for carrying on the coasting trade. But this does not extend to registered vessels of the United States having on board merchandise of foreign growth or manufacture, brought into the United States in such vessel from a foreign port, and on which the duties have not been paid according to law.

Whenever any vessel licensed for carrying on the fishery is intended to touch and trade at any foreign port, it is the duty of the master or owner to obtain permission for that purpose from the collector of the district where such vessel may be previous to her departure, and the master of every such vessel delivers like manifests and makes like entries both of the vessel and of the merchandise on board within the same time and under the same penalty as are by law provided for vessels of the United States arriving from a foreign port. A vessel licensed to carry on the fisheries, when found within three leagues of the coast with merchandise of foreign growth or manufacture exceeding the value of $500, without having permission as stated, is, together with the merchandise of foreign growth or manufacture imported therein, subject to seizure and forfeiture.

All steam-tug boats not of the

United States found employed in towing documented vessels of the United States plying from one port or place in the same to another are liable to a penalty of 50 cents per ton on the measurement of every such vessel so towed by them respectively, to be recovered by way of libel or suit; but this does not apply where the towing in whole or in part is within or upon foreign waters. Any foreign railroad company or corporation whose road enters the United States by means of a ferry or tug boat may own such boat, and it is subject to no other or different restrictions or regulations in such employment than if owned by a citizen of the United States.

Every vessel of 20 tons or upwards, entitled to be documented as a vessel of the United States, other than registered vessels found trading between district and district, or between different places in the same district, or carrying on the fishery without being enrolled and licensed, and every vessel of less than 20 tons, and not less than 5 tons burden, found trading or carrying on the fishery, as aforesaid, without a licence, is liable to a fine of $30 at every port of arrival without such enrolment or licence. But if the licence expired while the vessel was at sea, and there has been no opportunity to renew it, the fine is not incurred. Foreign vessels found transporting passengers between places or ports in the United States, when such passengers have been taken on board in the United States, are liable to a fine of $2 for every passenger landed.

No railroad company within the United States whose road forms any part of a line of road over which

cattle, sheep, swine, or other animals are conveyed from one state to another, or the owners or masters of steam, sailing, or other vessels carrying or transporting such animals from one state to another, shall confine them in cars, boats, or vessels of any description, for a longer period than twenty-eight consecutive hours without unloading them for rest, water, and feeding, for a period of, at least, five consecutive hours, unless prevented from so unloading by storm or other accidental causes. In estimating such confinement, the time during which the animals have been confined without such rest on connecting roads from which they are received is included, it being the intention to prohibit their continuous confinement beyond the period of twenty-eight hours, except upon the contingencies stated. Animals SO unloaded shall be properly fed and watered during such rest by the owner or person having the custody thereof, or in case of his default in so doing, then by the railroad company or owners or masters of boats, or vessels transporting them, at the expense of the owner or person in custody thereof; and such company, owners, or masters, in such case, have a lien upon such animals for food, care, and custody furnished, and are not liable for any detention of such animals. Any company, owner, or custodian who knowingly and willingly fails to comply, is subject to a penalty of not less than $100, nor more than $500; but when animals are carried in cars, boats, or other vessels, in which they can and do have proper food, water, space, and opportunity to rest, these provisions as to unloading do not apply.

REGULATION OF FISHERIES.

The master of any vessel of the burden of 20 tons or upwards, qualified according to law for carrying on the bank and other cod fisheries, or the mackerel fishery, bound from a port of the United States to be employed in any such fishery at sea, before proceeding on his fishing voyage, has to make an agreement in writing with every fisherman employed, except only an apprentice or servant of himself or owner, and in addition to such terms of shipment as may be agreed on, express whether the same is to continue for one voyage or for the fishing season; and also express that the fish, or the proceeds of such fishing voyage or voyages, which may appertain to the fishermen, shall be divided among them in proportion to the quantities or number of such fish which they may respectively have caught. This agreement shall be indorsed or countersigned by the owner of the fishing vessel or his agent. If any fisherman, having so engaged himself and signed an agreement therefor, thereafter, and while such agreement remains in force and to be performed, deserts or absents himself from such vessel, without leave of the master thereof, or of the owner or his agent, such deserter is liable to the same penalties as deserting seamen are subject to in the merchant service, and may in the like manner, and upon the like complaint and proof, be apprehended and detained; and the costs can be deducted out of the deserter's share of fish or proceeds. Every fisherman so engaged, who during the fishing voyage refuses or neglects his proper duty on board the fishing vessel, being thereto ordered or required by the master thereof, or otherwise resists his just demands, to the hindrance or detriment of the voyage,

besides being answerable for all damages arising thereby, forfeits, to the use of the owner of the vessel, his share of any public allowance which may be paid upon such voyage. When such a fishing agreement is made and signed, and any fish caught are delivered to the owner, or to his agent, for cure, and sold, the vessel, for the term of six months after such sale, is liable for the master's and every other fisherman's share of such fish, and may be proceeded against in the same form and to the same effect as any other vessel is by law liable and may be proceeded against, for the wages of seamen or mariners in the merchant service. The owner or his agent must, in such proceedings, produce a just account of the sales and division of such fish, according to the agreement or contract; otherwise the vessel is answerable for what may be the highest value of the shares demanded. But the owner or his agent may, upon appearing to answer, offer his account of supplies therefor made to either of the demandants, and is allowed to produce evidence thereof in answer to their demands respectively. When process is issued against any vessel so liable, there is an immediate discharge of the vessel, if the owner or his agent give bond to each fisherman instituting it, with sufficient security to the satisfaction of two justices of the peace, of whom one is named by the owner or his agent, and the other by the fisherman or fishermen pursuing such process; or if either party refuses, then the justice first appointed names his associate, with condition to answer and pay whatever sum is recovered. This provision does not prevent any fisherman proceeding by action at common law.

YACHTS.

The Secretary of the Treasury may cause yachts used and employed exclusively as pleasure - vessels, and designed as models of naval architecture, if entitled to be enrolled as American vessels, to be licensed on terms which will authorise them to proceed from port to port of the United States, and by sea to foreign ports, without entering or clearing at the custom-house. Such licences are in the form the Secretary prescribes. The owner of any such vessel, before taking out a licence, has to give a bond in the form and for the amount the Secretary of the Treasury prescribes, conditioned that the vessel shall not engage in any unlawful trade, nor in any way violate the revenue laws of the United States, and shall comply with the laws in all other respects. Vessels so enrolled and licensed are not allowed to transport merchandise or carry passengers for pay, and are in all respects, except as above stated, subject to the laws of the United States, and are liable to seizure and forfeiture for any violation of the provisions of law. All such licensed yachts use a signal of the form, size, and colour prescribed by the Secre

tary of the Navy; and the owners thereof shall at all times permit the naval architects in the employ of the United States to examine and copy the models of such yachts. For the identification of yachts and their owners, a commission to sail for pleasure in any designated yacht, belonging to any regularly organised and incorporated yacht club, stating the exemption and privileges enjoyed under it, may be issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, and is a token of credit to any United States official, and to the authorities of any foreign Power, for privileges enjoyed under it. Every yacht visiting a foreign country under the above stated provisions shall, on her return to the United States, make due entry at the custom-house of the port at which on such return she shall arrive.

Yachts belonging to a regularly organised yacht club of any foreign nation, which extends like privileges to the yachts of the United States, have the privilege of entering or leaving any port of the United States without entering or clearing at the custom-house thereof, or paying tonnage-tax.

LIFE-SAVING SERVICE.

By the United States laws of 1854, 1871, 1873, and 1874, which are embodied in the United States Revised Statutes, the Secretary of the Treasury might establish such stations on the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, for affording aid to shipwrecked vessels thereon, and might make such changes in the location of the existing stations, and make such repairs, and furnish such apparatus and supplies as might in his

judgment be best adapted to the preservation of life and property from such shipwrecked vessels. He might employ at each of these stations a keeper, with a salary of $200; also a superintendent, who should have the powers and perform the duties of an inspector of customs for each of the said coasts; and he might also employ crews of experienced surfmen at such stations on the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, for

such periods as he might deem necessary and proper, with pay of not over $40 each a-month. He might

also establish such stations at such lighthouses as in his judgment he should deem best, and the keepers of such lights should take charge of such boats and apparatus as he might put in their charge respectively, as a part of their official duties. No boat was to be purchased and located under these provisions at any point other than on the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, unless they were placed in the immediate care of an officer of the Government, or unless bond was given by proper individuals living in the neighbourhood, conditioned for the care and preservation of the same, and its application to the uses intended. The Secretary of the Treasury might appoint a keeper for each of the ten life-saving stations on the coasts of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Block Island, Rhode Island, and employ crews of experienced surfmen, with similar salaries to those mentioned. He was to provide for the establishment of ten life-saving stations on the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina, at such points as he might deem necessary, provided that all life-saving stations thereafter erected should be erected under the supervision of two captains of the revenue service to be designated by him, and to be under his direction.

By the Act of June 20, 1874, chap. 344, intituled, "An Act to provide for the establishment of life-saving stations and houses of refuge upon the sea and lake coasts of the United States, and to promote the efficiency of the Life-Saving Service," the Secretary of the Treasury was authorised to establish life-saving stations, lifeboat stations, and houses of refuge at or near the vicinity of named points upon the sea and lake coasts

of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Washington Territory, Oregon, California, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, and Lake Superior; and to appoint one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware and Virginia, one for Florida, one for Lakes Erie and Ontario, one for Lakes Huron and Superior, and one for Lake Michigan, who should have the powers and perform the duties of inspectors of customs; and to appoint a keeper for each of the stations and houses of refuge. He was also authorised to appoint an assistant to the Long Island superintendent, to live on Block Island and perform the duties of superintendent of the life-saving stations within the State of Rhode Island, with an annual salary of $500. The Secretary might employ crews of experienced surfmen, paid not over $40 each man monthly, at stations denominated complete stations, and at such stations on the Pacific coast as he might deem necessary and proper, and for such periods as he might deem necessary. might accept the services of volunteer crews at any of the authorised lifeboat stations, who should be subject to the rules and regulations governing the Life-Saving Service; and a list of the names of each crew should be kept in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury. These volunteers should receive no compensation except a sum of not more than $10 each for every occasion upon which they should have been instrumental in saving human life, and such of the medals as they might be entitled to under the provisions of this Act. But no payment should be made to any person who should not actually have participated in the efforts to save the life or lives rescued. The medals were of two classes, the first being confined to cases of extreme and heroic daring, and the

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