Collectors or other officers of customs, inspectors of steam vessels, nd shipping commissioners who are paid wholly or partly by fees hall make a detailed report of such services, and the fees provided by aw, to the Secretary of the Treasury, under such regulations as that fficer may prescribe; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall allow and ay, from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, said fficers such compensation for said services as each would have received rior to the passage of this act; also such compensation to clerks of hipping commissioners as would have been paid them had this act not passed: Provided, That such services have, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, been necessarily rendered.

1268. SEC. 2. That shipping commissioners may ship and discharge rews for any vessel engaged in the coastwise trade, or the trade between he United States and the Dominion of Canada, or Newfoundland, or he West Indies, or the Republic of Mexico, at the request of the master r owner of such vessel, the shipping and discharging fees in such cases o be one-half that prescribed by section forty-six hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes, for the purpose of determining the compensaion of shipping commissioners.

SEC. 3. [Amendment of sec. 10, act June 20, 1884.]

1269. SEC. 4. That section forty-two hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes be amended so as to read as follows.

SEC. 4289. The provisions of the seven preceding sections, and of ection eighteen of an act entitled 'An act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign arrying-trade, and for other purposes,' approved June twenty-sixth, ighteen hundred and eighty-four, relating to the limitations of the liaility of the owners of vessels, shall apply to all sea going vessels, and

hese fees would seem to be still in force for some purposes. The acts fixing these ees are as follows:

Collectors or other officers of the customs, R. S., §§ 4381, 4382, as amended by 1884, July 5, ch. 228.

Inspectors of steam-vessels, R. S., § 4458, as amended by 1882, April 5, ch. 67. Shipping commissioners, R. S., § 4592, tables C, D, following R. S., § 4612, p. 896, as mended by § 2 of this act. This section refers to R. S., § 4612, as still in force for the purpose of determining the compensation of shipping commissioners." This refers to the tables following R. S., § 4612, thesc being more strictly an appen lix to R. S., § 4592. The shipment and discharge by a shipping commissioner of crews or the coastwise trade, which is made permissible by § 2 of this act, is now made ompulsory by 1890, August 19, ch. 801.

See words inserted here by 1888, April 4, ch. 61, § 2.

also to all vessels used on lakes or rivers or in inland navigation, including canal-boats, barges, and lighters."

1270. SEC. 5. That section forty-one hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes be amended by striking out the last sentence of the last paragraph, and inserting instead the following:

"In every vessel documented as a vessel of the United States the number denoting her net tonnage shall be deeply carved or otherwise permanently marked on her main beam, and shall be so continued: and if the number at any time cease to be continued such vessel shall be subject to a fine of thirty dollars on every arrival in a port of the United State if she have not her tonnage number legally carved or permanently marked."

1271. SEC. 6. That from the close of section forty-one hundred and seventy-seven of said statutes the following words shall be stricken out, to wit: "Such vessel shall be no longer recognized as a vessel of the United States;" and in lieu thereof there shall be inserted the words following: "Such vessel shall be liable to a fine of thirty dollars on every arrival in a port of the United States if she have not her proper official number legally carved or permanently marked."

1272. SEC. 7. Every vessel of twenty tons or upwards, entitled to be documented as a vessel of the United States, other than registered vessels, found trading between district and district, or between different places in the same district, or carrying on the fishery, without being: enrolled and licensed, and every vessel of less than twenty tons and not less than five tons burden found trading or carrying on the fishery as aforesaid without a license obtained as provided by this title, shall be liable to a fine of thirty dollars at every port of arrival without such enrollment or license.

But if the license shall have expired while the vessel was at sea, and there shall have been no opportunity to renew such license, then said fine of thirty dollars shall not be incurred.

And so much of section four thousand three hundred and seventy-one of the Revised Statutes as relate to vessels entitled to be documented as vessels of the United States is hereby repealed.

1273. SEC. 8. That foreign vessels found transporting passengers between places or ports in the United States, when such passengers have been taken on board in the United States, shall be liable to a fine of two dollars for every passenger landed.

1274. SEC. 9. That the fines imposed by sections five, six, seven, and eight of this act shall be subject to remission or mitigation by the Sec

etary of the Treasury when the offense was not wilfully committed, inder such regulations and methods of ascertaining the facts as may eem to him advisable.

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1275. SEC. 10. That the provision of Schedule N of "An act to reduce nternal-revenue taxation, and for other purposes," approved March hird, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, allowing a drawback mported bituminous coal used for fuel on vessels propelled by steam, shall be construed to apply only to vessels of the United States. SEC. 11. [Substitute for sec. 14, act June 26, 1884, 23 Stat,, 57.] 1276. SEC. 12. That the President be, and hereby is, directed to cause the Governments of foreign countries which, at any of their ports, mpose on American vessels a tonnage-tax or light-house dues, or other equivalent tax or taxes, or any other fees, charges, or dues, to be informed of the provisions of the preceding section, and invited to co-operate with the Government of the United States in abolishing all light-house dues, tonnage-taxes, or other equivalent tax or taxes on, and also all other fees for official services to, the vessels of the respective nations employed in the trade between the ports of such foreign country and the ports of the United States.

1277. SEC. 13. That section eleven of "An act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying-trade, and for other purposes," approved June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, shall not be construed to apply to vessels engaged in the whaling or fishing business.

1278. SEC. 14. That section forty-four hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended by striking out from the nineteenth and following lines thereof the words “and, to indicate the pressure of steam, suitable steam-registers that will correctly record each excess of steam carried above the prescribed limit, and the highest point attained," and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "and suitable steam gauges to indicate the pressure of steam."

1279. SEC. 15. That the provisions of sections twenty-five hundred and ten and twenty-five hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes, as the sections of Title thirty three are numbered in "An act to reduce

It is understood that it is officially held that this drawback is repealed by operation of 1890, October 1, ch. 1244. See pars. 432, 537.

a The provisions of the act of 1883, March 3, ch. 121, § 6 (23 Stat. L., 523), numbered therein as R. S., §§ 2510, 2511, were substitutes for R. S., §§ 2513 and 2514, and have been superseded by 1890, October 1, ch. 1244, §§ 8 and 9.

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internal revenue taxation and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and the provisions of section sixteen of "An act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying-trade, and for other purposes," approved June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, shall apply to the construction, equipment, repairs, and supplies of vessels of the United States employed in the fisheries or in the whaling business, in the same manner as to vessels of the United States engaged in the foreign trade.

1280. SEC. 16. That rule twelve of section forty-two hundred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes shall be so construed as not to require row-boats and skiffs upon the river Saint Lawrence to carry lights.

1281. SEC. 17. That whenever any foreign country whose vessels have been placed on the same footing in the ports of the United States as American vessels (the coastwise trade excepted) shall deny to any vessels of the United States any of the commercial privileges accorded to national vessels in the harbors, ports, or waters of such foreign country, the President, on receiving satisfactory information of the continuance of such discriminations against any vessels of the United States, is hereby authorized to issue his proclamation excluding, on and after such : time as he may indicate, from the exercise of such commercial privileges in the ports of the United States as are denied to American vessels in the ports of such foreign country, all vessels of such foreign country of a similar character to the vessels of the United States thus discriminated against, and suspending such concessions previously granted to the vessels of such country;

And on and after the date named in such proclamation for it to take effect, if the master, officer, or agent of any vessel of such foreign country excluded by said proclamation from the exercise of any commercial privileges shall do any act prohibited by said proclamation in the ports, harbors, or waters of the United States for or on account of such vessel, such vessel, and its rigging, tackle, furniture, and boats, and all the goods on board, shall be liable to seizure and to forfeiture to the United States; and any person opposing any officer of the United States in the enforcement of this act, or aiding and abetting any other person in such opposition, shall forfeit eight hundred dollars, and shall be guilty of a

1 R.S., § 4233, is superseded by 1890, August 19, ch. 802, and the subject of small vessels under oars is covered by article 7 of said act.

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misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

1282. SEC. 18. Section nine of "An act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying-trade, and for other purposes," approved June twenty sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, is hereby amended in the eighth line by inserting after the words "and the consular officer" the following: "When the transportation is by a sailing vessel; and the regular steerage-passenger rate, not to exceed two cents per mile, when the transportation is by steamer."

And the said section is further amended by adding at the end the following: “or to take any seaman having a contagious disease." [June 19, 1886.]

●HAP. 61.—An act to amend the laws relating to navigation, and for other purposes.

1283. Be it enacted, &c., 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 subproviso 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 "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 Ameriean vessels under the most-favored nation clause in treaties between the United States and such countries."

1284. SEC. 2. That section one of the act herein before mentioned be amended, in the third line from the end of the section, by inserting, after 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 section fortyfour hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes."

SEC. 3. [Amendment of sec. 4581, R. S., and sec. 7, act June 26, 1884.]