Chapter CCLXV. to provide for the Payment in Gold of certain Wages to Seamen in foreign Countries
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CHAP. CCLXV.— An Act to provide for the Payment in Gold of certain Wages to Seamen in foreign Countries.March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatPayments in foreign ports by consular officers, as wages to seamen, to be in gold, or, &c. moneys paid under the laws of the United States, by direction of consular officers or agents, at any foreign port or place, as wages, extra or otherwise, due American seamen, shall be paid in gold or its equivalent, without any deduction whatever, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, March 3, 1873.