Chapter CXVII. *to extend the Provisions of the first Section of “An Act for the Government of Persons in certain Fisheries,” approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirteen.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Th
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Chap. CXVII.— An Act *to extend the Provisions of the first Section of “An Act for the Government of Persons in certain Fisheries,” approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirteen.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the provisions of the firstProvisions relating to the cod fishery to apply to mackerel fishery. section of “An act for the government of persons in certain fisheries,” approved on the nineteenth of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall extend and apply to the master or skipper and seamen of vessels of the burthen of twenty tons or upwards, qualified according to law for carrying on the mackerel fisheries, bound from a port in the United States to be employed in such fisheries, in the same way as if such fisheries had been embraced in said act: *Provided*, ThatProviso. the agreement named in said section shall be duly made, indorsed, and countersigned.
Approved, March 3, 1865.