Chapter 1140. To amend the Act approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to amend the laws relative to shipping commissioners,’ approved August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.” April 11, 1904. [[S. 3118](/us/b
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CHAP. 1140.— An Act To amend the Act approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to amend the laws relative to shipping commissioners,’ approved August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.” April 11, 1904. [[S. 3118](/us/bill/58/s/3118).] [[Public, No. 99](/us/pl/58/99).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Merchant seamen.
Clothing of, exempt from attachment. Vol. 28, p. 667, amended. Vol. 26, p. 320. That so much of the Act approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to amend the laws relative to shipping commissioners,’ approved August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes” as reads “shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding one hundred dollars” is hereby Penalty increased. amended to read “shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be imprisoned not more than six months or fined not more than five hundred dollars, or both.
” Approved, April 11, 1904.