CHAPTER IV.

THE CARRIAGE OF PASSENGERS AND EXAMINATION OF EMIGRANT VESSELS.

List of passengers.

Art. 256. Vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, carrying passengers, must have posted in conspicuous places, framed under glass, two copies of a printed synopsis of the laws relating to the carriage of passengers. For neglect or refusal to comply with the requirements of this article the owners or masters forfeit one hundred ($100) dollars.

Rev. Stats. sec. 4494; Desty S. & A. § 266.

Art. 257. The master of every vessel of the United States, propelled in whole or in part by steam, carrying passengers, except ferry-boats and steamers not exceeding 150 tons burden, used in whole or in part for navigating canals, must cause to be kept from day to day a correct list of all passengers received and landed, noting the places where received and where landed.

This list must be open to the inspection of any passenger during reasonable hours, and at all times to examination by steamboat inspectors and officers of customs.

In case of default, wilful or negligent, the said master is liable to a penalty of one hundred ($100) dollars.

Rev. Stats. secs. 4467, 4468.

Art. 258. The master of every such vessel, if required by law to take clearance from the custom-house, must, after clearance is granted, but before the vessel can be allowed to depart, file with the collector or other officer of the customs granting the clearance, a list of all passengers received or to be received on the vessel so cleared for conveyance during the proposed voyage, designating cabin and steerage passengers.

This list must be verified by the oath of such master, or of an owner, or agent; whereupon a departure permit will be given. Such oath and permit will be as follows:

FORM No. 70.

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Master's oath to passenger list on departure.

do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am master of the and that annexed hereto is a correct and complete list of all passengers received or to be received for conveyance by said on her voyage to

for which she is now clearing, designating cabin and steerage passengers.

And that two copies of the synopsis of the laws relating to the carriage of passengers and their safety on steamvessels are framed under glass and placed and kept in conspicuous places in said vessel.

Subscribed and sworn to before me,

Master.

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Collector.

It is hereby certified that

mander of the

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master or com

has deposited in this office, according to law, a list, verified by oath or affirmation, of all passengers received or to be received on said vessel, designating cabin and steerage passengers; and said vessel is hereby permitted to depart from this port.

Collector.

Upon any pilot taking any such vessel to sea without suchi permit being exhibited to him the law imposes a fine of one hundred ($100) dollars and a revocation of his li

cense.

Rev. Stats. sec. 4494.

Art. 259. The master or commander of any vessel carrying passengers from any port or ports in the United States to any port or place in Mexico or Central America, shall, immediately on arriving at such last-mentioned port or place, deliver to the United States consul, viceconsul, or commercial agent at such port two copies of the list of passengers, embracing all the passengers on board the vessel at any time during the voyage, and duly verified by the oath of such master or commander, and by the inspection of such consular officer previous to or at the landing of passengers, one of which copies the said consul or officer shall file in his office, and the other of which he

shall transmit, without delay, to the collector of the port in the United States from which the vessel last cleared.

And if such master or commander shall refuse or neglect to comply with the requirements of this article, or shall knowingly make a false return of the list of passengers, he, together with the owner or owners of said vessel, shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten thousand ($10,000) dollars, and such fine shall be a lien upon the vessel until paid.

Art. 260. If the owner or owners, master, commander, or other person in charge of any steamboat or other vessel shall wilfully present, or cause to be presented, any false or fraudulent list or lists of its passengers, or copies thereof, to any consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, collector, or other custom-house officer, or of the departure permit to any pilot, he or they shall be held guilty of misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be imprisoned for a term not exceeding two years, and the vessel shall be liable to seizure and forfeiture.

Art. 261. The master of any vessel arriving at any port of the United States, or of any territory thereof, from any foreign place whatever, when he delivers a manifest, or if there be no cargo on board, then when he makes report or entry of the vessel, must deliver to the collector of the district a list or manifest of all the passengers taken on board the vessel at any foreign port or place.

This manifest must specify the age, sex, and occupation of such passengers respectively, the part of the vessel occupied by each during the voyage, to what country they severally belong, and that of which they intend to become inhabitants, and whether any, and what number, have died on the voyage.

The list or manifest must be sworn to in the same manner as a manifest of cargo, and the same penalties are prescribed for neglect or refusal to comply with the provisions in relation to the former as to the latter manifest.

Rev. Stats. sec. 4266.

Art. 262. For every death by natural disease occurring during the voyage among passengers of more than eight years of age, on board any such vessel referred to in the foregoing article, except cabin passengers, the master, owner, or consignee of the vessel must, within twentyfour hours after the legal time of reporting the list prescribed in the foregoing article, pay to the collector ten ($10) dollars.

DESTY C. & N.-32.

Neglect or refusal to comply with this regulation entails a penalty of fifty ($50) dollars additional for every such death.

Rev. Stats. sec. 4268.

Art. 263. The moneys arising from this exaction for every such death is to be applied for the benefit and relief of emigrants in the manner indicated by the law. Collectors will keep a special account of the moneys so received, and, before making payments to any board or commission, not already approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, will make a report to him of the number and designation of the boards or commissions appointed and acting under the authority of the State in which their respective ports are situated, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to determine which is entitled to receive the

same.

Rev. Stats. sec. 4268.

Art. 264. It is required by law that the collector of customs shall examine each emigrant ship or vessel, on its arrival at his port, and ascertain and report to the Secretary of the Treasury the time of sailing; the length of the voyage; the ventilation; the number of passengers; their space on board; their food; the native country of the emigrants; the number of deaths; the age and sex of those who died during the voyage; together with his opinion of the cause of the mortality, if any, on board, and if none, what precautionary measures, arrangements, or habits are supposed to have had any, and what, agency in causing the exemption.

This report will be in the following form:
Rev. Stats. sec. 4272.

Length of voyage,

Number, diameter, and description of ventilators,

Height of ventilators above upper deck,

Number of decks,

Passengers.

Class 1.-Cabin passengers. Under eight years of age..

Total..

Eight years of age or over

Class 2.- {Pass'ngers other (Eight years of age or over than cabin....Under one year of age.... Under eight and over one.

Total..

tons burden,