Chapter 61. to amend the laws relating to navigation, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 61.— An Act to amend the laws relating to navigation, and for other purposes.April 4, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Tonnage tax.Vol. 24, chap. 421, sec. 11, p. 82, amended. That section eleven of an act to abolish certain fees for official services to American vessels, and to amend the laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen, and owners of vessels, and for other purposes, approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, be amended by striking out of the sixth and seventh lines of the sub proviso of said section the words “of the country in which such port is situated, or on the cargoes of such vessels,” and substituting in lieu thereof the words Special exemption of coasting trade.“of such country, or on the cargoes of such vessels; but this proviso shall not be held to be inconsistent with the special regulation by foreign countries of duties and other charges on their own vessels, and the cargoes thereof, engaged in their coasting trade, or with the existence between such countries and other states of reciprocal stipulations founded on special conditions and equivalents, and thus not within the treatment of American vessels under the most-favored nation clause in treaties between the United States and such countries.
” Sec. 2. That section one of the act hereinbefore mentioned beCompensation to collectors, etc. amended, in the third line from the end of the section, by inserting, Vol. 24, p. 80. the words “shipping commissioners,” the words “and clerks of steamboat inspectors, and such allowances for fees of United States marshals and witnesses for services under the steamboat-inspection laws, and for expenses of steamboat inspectors provided for by [R. S., sec. 4461, p. 863](/us/rs/t/s4461/p863).Care of discharged seamen.[R.
S., sec. 4581, p. 887](/us/rs/t/s4581/p887).Vol. 28, p. 55.section forty-four hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes.” Sec. 3. That section forty-live hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes, as amended by section seven of chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the public laws passed by the Forty-eighth Congress, is amended by striking out all after the word “thereof,” in the fifth line, and inserting in lieu thereof as follows: “If any seaman, after his discharge, shall have incurred any expense for board or other necessaries, or for reasonable charges for medical care and nursing, at the place of his discharge, before shipping again, or for transportation to the United States, such expense shall be paid out of the arrears of wages and extra wages received by the consular officer, which shall be retained for that purpose, and the balance only paid over to such seaman; and if such arrears and extra wages are not sufficient to defray such expense, the deficiency shall be paid from the fund in the Treasury for the maintenance and transportation of destitute American seamen.
” Approved, April 4, 1888.