Chapter 123. To amend section forty-four hundred and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes, relating to the complement of crews of vessels, and for the better protection of life
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CHAP. 123.— An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes, relating to the complement of crews of vessels, and for the better protection of life. April 2, 1908.[[H. R. 225](/us/bill/70/hr/225).][[Public, No. 84.](/us/pl/70/84)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section forty-four hundredSteam vessels.Licensed officers and crews. and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read:
“Sec. 4463. Any vessel of the United States subject to the provisionsInspectors to prescribe the minimum number of.R.S., sec. 4463, p.864, amended. of this title or to the inspection laws of the United States shall not be navigated unless she shall have in her service and on board such complement of licensed officers and crew as may, in the judgment of the local inspectors who inspect the vessel, be necessary for her safe navigation. The local inspectors shall make in the certificate of inspectionChanges in certificates of inspection. of the vessel an entry of such complement of officers and crew, which may be changed from time to time by indorsement on such certificate by local inspectors by reason of change of conditions or employment.
Such entry or indorsement shall be subject to a right of appeal,Appeal. 56 under regulations to be made by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, to the supervising inspector and from him to the supervising inspector-general, who shall have the power to revise, set aside, or affirm the said determination of the local inspectors. “If any such vessel is deprived of the services of any member ofVessels unavoidably deprived of member of crew. the crew without the consent, fault, or collusion of the master, owner, or any person interested in the vessel, the vessel may proceed on her voyage, if in the judgment of the master she is sufficiently manned for such voyage.
“If the master shall fail to explain in writing such deficiency in theFailure to explain deficiency. crew to the local inspectors within twelve hours of the time of the arrival of the vessel at her destination, he shall be liable to a penalty ofPenalty. fifty dollars. If the vessel shall have been insufficiently manned in theVessels insufficiently manned.Penalty. judgment of the local inspectors, the master shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, or in case of an insufficient number of licensed officers to a penalty of five hundred dollars.
” Sec. 2. That this Act shall take effect on July first, nineteen hundredEffect. and eight. Approved, April 2, 1908.