Chapter CLXX. *repealing certain Provisions of Law concerning Seamen on board public and private Vessels of the United States.* June 28, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That so much of an act entitled Certain laws respecting s
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Chap. CLXX.— An Act *repealing certain Provisions of Law concerning Seamen on board public and private Vessels of the United States.* June 28, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That so much of an act entitled Certain laws respecting seamen on board U. S. vessels, repealed.1813, ch. 42.Vol. ii. p. 809.“An act for the regulation of seamen on board the public and private vessels of the United States,” approved the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, as makes it not lawful to employ on board any of the public or private vessels of the United States any person or persons except citizens of the United States or person[s] of color, natives of the United States; and so much of the third, fifth, sixth, and seventh sections of “An act concerning the navigation of the1817, ch. 31, §§ 3, 5, 6, 7.Vol. iii. p. 351.
United States,” approved the first of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, as concerns the crews of vessels therein named; and so much of the first section of an act entitled “An act to repeal the tonnage1830, ch. 219, § 1.Vol. iv. p. 425. duties upon ships and vessels of the United States and upon certain foreign vessels,” approved the thirty-first of May, one thousand eight202THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 171. 1864. hundred and thirty, as makes discrimination in favor of vessels certain proportions of whose crews shall be citizens of the United States, shall Officers of United States vessels to be citizens.be, and the same are hereby, repealed: *Provided, however*, That officers of vessels of the United States shall in all cases be citizens of the United States.
Approved, June 28, 1864.