Chapter CCXLIII. *to amend the Law requiring consular Officers to collect three Months’ extra Pay for Seamen in certain Cases*
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CHAP. CCXLIII.— An Act *to amend the Law requiring consular Officers to collect three Months’ extra Pay for Seamen in certain Cases*. March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, When a seaman is discharged in a foreign port for misconduct, consular officers may remit the three months’ extra wages, if he can be at once reshipped without expense to the United States. That the law to regulate the consular system of the United States which requires consular officers to collect three months’ extra wages upon the discharge of seamen be, and the same hereby is, so amended as to permit said officers whenever, after a full hearing of both parties, the cause of discharge is found to he the misconduct of the seaman, to remit so much of the extra wages as is now by law paid to the seaman discharged: *Provided*, That relief can immediately be offered to such seaman by reshipment without expense to the United States.
Approved, March 3, 1873.