CONTENTS.

CHAPTER ONE.

REGISTRY AND RECORDING.

§ 4131. What are vessels of the United States-By whom may be com-

manded.

4132. What vessels are entitled to register.

4133. Vessels owned by non-resident citizens.

4134. Vessels owned by non-resident naturalized citizens.

4135. American vessel taking foreign flag.

4136. Wrecked vessels.

4137. Vessels owned by corporations.

$4138. New registry upon death, etc., of officer of corporation.

4139. Oath of officer of corporation.

4140. Nationalization of vessels in Alaska.

4141. Vessels where registered.

4142. Oath for registry, by owner.

4143. Forfeiture for false swearing.

4144. Oath by master.

S4145. Bond for registry.

4146. Condition of bond.

4147. Carpenter's certificate.

4148. Measurement of vessel.

4149. Certificate of measurement.

4150. Mode of measurement.

4151. No measurement of cabins or staterooms for tonnage

4152. Rules of measurement limited to what vessels.

4153. Tonnage.

4154. Measurement of foreign vessels.

4155. Form of register.

4156. Variations from form.

4157. Blank certificates of registry.

4158. Issuing certificates of registry.

4159. Registry upon purchase of vessel.

4160. Surrender of certificate granted to purchaser.

4161. Registry by agent.

4162. Surrender of certificate granted to agent.

54163. Forfeiture for false swearing by agent.

4164. Registry upon sale under legal process.

54165. Sale to foreigners.

4166. Registry upon sale abroad.

4167. Oath upon loss of register.

84168. Surrender of certificate obtained upon loss of original.

4169. Penalty for not obtaining new registry.

4170. New registry upon sale or alteration of vessel.

4171. Change of master.

4172. Failure to report sale to foreigner.

4173. Oath upon entry.

4174. Transmission of surrendered certificate to Treasury.

4175. Cancellation of bond.

4176. Numbering registers.

4177. Numbers for vessels.

4178. Names of vessels to be painted on stern.

4179. Change of name of registered vessel.

4180. Oath to obtain record of vessel owned by foreigner.

4181. Measurement for record.

4182. Certificate of record.

4183. Change of master or name of recorded vessel.

4184. Production of certificate upon entry.

4185. Fees of collectors.

4186. Fees of surveyors.

4187. Penalty for misconduct by officers.

4188. Penalty for neglect by officers.

4189. Penalty for fraudulent registry.

4190. Sea-letters, to what vessels issued.

4191. Making or using forged sea-letters.

4192. Conveyance of vessels; lien by bottomry.

4193. Record of bills of sale, mortgages, etc.; acknowledgments.

4194. Index of records.

4195. Certified copies of records.

4196. Interest to be named in bills of sale.

CHAPTER TWO.

CLEARANCE AND ENTRY.

4197. Granting clearances.

4198. Oath of master.

4199. Form of manifest.

4200. Manifests of shippers.

4201. Form of clearance.

4202. State inspection laws.

4203. Conveyance of the mails.

4204. Conveyance of bullion, coin, etc., for the United States.

4205. Clearance of vessel laden with live-oak.

4206. Payment of fees on vessels outward bound.

4207. Copy of rates of consular fees to be annexed to clearance.

4208. Steamboats on Lake Champlain.

4209. Production and deposit of papers of foreign vessels.

4210. Exception in certain cases.

4211. Delivery of papers by foreign consul.

4212. Oath of masters to delivery of mails.

4213. Copy of receipts of consular fees, etc.

4214. Pleasure-yachts.

4215. Signals of yachts.

4216. Yachts belonging to foreign yacht-clubs.

4217. Commissions to yachts.

4218. Entry of yachts.

CHAPTER THREE.

TONNAGE DUTIES.

4219. Amount of tonnage duties.

4220. Exemption of coasting and fishing vessels.

4221. Exemption of vessels making daily trips on interior waters.

4222. Exemption of vessels touching at Canadian ports.

4223. Tonnage duty to be paid only once in each year.

4224. Time of payment of tonnage duties.

4225. Light-money.

4226. Exemption of unregistered vessels owned by citizens.

4227. Rights under treaties preserved.

$4233. Rules for preventing collisions.

4234. Forfeiture of sailing vessels for omission of lights.

4235. State regulations of pilots.

4236. Pilots on boundaries between States.

4237. No discrimination in rates of pilotage.

4238. Vessels stranded on foreign coasts.

4239. Property wrecked on coast of Florida.

4240. Forfeitures for taking such property to foreign port.

4241. License to wreckers on Florida coast.

4242. Life-saving stations on coasts of Long Island, etc.

4243. Superintendents and keepers.

4244. Crews of surfmen.

4245. Stations at light-houses.

4246. Care of boats.

4247. Keepers, etc., at stations on coasts of Cape Cod and Rhode

Island.

§ 4248. Supervision of stations on coast of Rhode Island.

4249. Stations on coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,

Virginia, etc.

4250. Removal of captain by owners of vessels.

4251. Canal-boats not to be libeled for wages.

CHAPTER SIX.

TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS AND MERCHAN.

DISE.

4252. Space for passengers in vessels arriving from foreign ports.

4253. Penalty for taking too many passengers.

4254. Lockers and hospitals.

4255. Berths.

4256. Houses on deck.

4257. Ventilators.

4258. Cooking-range.

4259. Penalty for neglect to comply with requirements.

4260. Provisions.

4261, Penalty for failure to provide provisions and water.

4262. Distribution of provisions.

4263. Discipline and health.

4264. Inspection of passenger-vessels.

4265. Vessels bound to or from the Pacific Ocean,

4266. Lists of passengers.

4267. Copies to be returned to Secretary of State.

4268. Payment in case of death of passenger.

4269. Penalty for refusal to pay.

4270. Recovery of penalties.

4271. Vessels belonging to colonization societies.

4272. Examination of emigrant vessels by collector.

4273. Informers.

4274. Vessels carrying passengers without the United States.

4275. Penalty upon visiting part of vessel assigned to emigrants.

4276. Penalty for permitting officers or seamen to visit such part of

vessel.

4277. Notice to be posted in emigrant vessels.

4278. Transportation of nitro-glycerine.

4279. Packing and marking nitro-glycerine.

4280. Regulation by States of traffic in nitro-glycerine.

4281. Liability of masters, etc., as carriers.

4282. Loss by fire.

4283. Liability of owner not to exceed his interest.

4284. General average of losses.

4285. Transfer of interest of owner to trustee.

4286. When charterer is deemed owner.

4287. Remedies reserved.

4288. Shipping inflammable materials.

4289. Exception to limitation of liability.

§ 4293. Public vessels to suppress piracy.

4294. Seizure of piratical vessels.

4295. Merchant-vessels may resist pirates.

4296. Condemnation of piratical vessels.

4297. Seizure of vessels fitted out for piracy.

4298. What vessels may be authorized to seize pirates.

4299. Duty of officers of customs and marshals.

CHAPTER NINE.

SUMMARY TRIALS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES AGAINST

NAVIGATION LAWS.

§ 4300. When summary trials may be had.

§ 4301. Complaint and answer.

4302. Amendments and adjournments.

4303. Challenges to jurors.

4304. Limit of sentences.

4305. Recovery of penalties and forfeitures under navigation laws.

TITLE XLIX.

REGULATION OF VESSELS IN FOREIGN

COMMERCE.

4306. Passports of vessels on departure to foreign country.

84307. Penalty for departing without passport.

4308. Passports of unregistered vessels.

4309. Deposit of ship's papers with consul.

4310. Penalty for failure to deposit papers with consul.

TITLE L.

REGULATION OF VESSELS IN DOMESTIC

COMMERCE.

4311. What are deemed vessels of the United States.

4312. What vessels may be enrolled.

4313. Enrollment of vessels owned by corporations.

4314. Oath of president, etc., of corporation.

4315. Death, etc., of president of corporation.

4316. Enrollment of steamboats owned by aliens.

4317. Bond by alien owner.

4318. Enrollment of vessels on frontiers.

4319. Form of enrollment of vessels.

4320. License of vessels.

$ 4321. Form of license.

4322. Exchange of enrollment and registry.

4323. Exchange when vessel is in another district.

4324. Expiration of license.

4325. Surrender of license.

4326. Loss of license.

4327. Renewal of license.

4328. Renewal when vessel is in another district.

4329. Renewal upon sale of vessel.

4330. Oath as to payment for repairs.

4331. Measurement of vessels less than twenty tons.

4332. Signatures to enrollment, license, etc.

4333. Record of licenses.

4334. Name and port to be painted on stern of vessel.

4335. Change of master.

4336. Inspection.

4337. Penalty for unlawfully proceeding upon foreign voyage.

4338. Certificate for vessel proceeding upon foreign voyage.

4339. Papers for vessels in whale-fishery.

4340. Enrollments at Jersey City.

4341. Enrollments at Camden.

4342. Enrollments at Wilmington, N. C.

4343. Enrollments at Chesapeake City.

4344. Surveyors may be authorized to enroll vessels.

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