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feiture is had, that any other owner of such vessel, being a citizen of the United States, was wholly ignorant of the sale or transfer to or ownership of such foreign subject or citizen, the share or interest of such citizen of the United States shall not be subject to such forfeiture, and the residue only shall be so forfeited.

31 Dec., 1792, s. 16, v. 1, p. 295.

vessels.

SEC. 4177. The Secretary of the Treasury shall have power, under Numbers for such regulations as he shall prescribe, to establish and provide a system of numbering vessels so registered, enrolled, and licensed; and each vessel so numbered shall have her number deeply carved or otherwise permanently marked on her main beam; and if at any time she shall cease to be so marked, such vessel shall be no longer recognized as a vessel of the United States.

28 July, 1866, s. 13, v. 14, p. 331.

Names of ves

SEC. 4178. The name of every registered vessel, and of the port to which she shall belong, shall be painted on her stern, on a black ground, sels to be painted in white letters, of not less than three inches in length.* If any vessel on stern. of the United States shall be found without having her name and the name of the port to which she belongs so painted, the owner or owners shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars; recoverable one-half to the person giving the information thereof; the other half to the use of the United States.

31 Dec., 1792, s. 3, v. 1, p. 288.

sel.

SEC. 4179. No master, owner, or agent of any vessel of the United Change of name States shall in any way change the name of such vessel, or by any de- of registered vesvice, advertisement, or contrivance to deceive or attempt to deceive the public, or any officer or agent of the United States, or of any State, or any corporation or agent thereof, or any person or persons, as to the true name or character of such vessel, on pain of the forfeiture of such vessel.

5 May, 1864, s. 2, v. 13, p. 64.

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SEC. 4189. Whenever any certificate of registry, enrollment, or li- Penalty for cense, or other record or document granted in lieu thereof, to any ves- fraudulent regis. sel, is knowingly and fraudulently obtained or used for any vessel not entitled to the benefit thereof, such vessel, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be liable to forfeiture.

18 July, 1866, s. 24, v. 14, p. 184.

SEC. 4190. No sea-letter or other document certifying or proving any vessel to be the property of a citizen of the United States shall be issued, except to vessels duly registered, or enrolled and licensed as vessels of the United States, or to vessels which shall be wholly owned by citizens of the United States, and furnished with or entitled to sea-letters or other custom-house documents.

26 March, 1810, v. 2, p. 568.

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SEC. 4191. Every person who knowingly makes, utters, or publishes ing forged sea-letany false sea-letter, Mediterranean passport, or certificate of registry, ter, &c. or who knowingly avails himself of any such Mediterranean passport, sea-letter, or certificate of registry, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than five thousand dollars, and, if an officer of the United States, shall thenceforth be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under the authority of the United States.

2 March, 1803, s. 1, v. 2, p. 209.

SEC. 4204. All vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, and Title 48, Chap. 2. bound from any port in the United States to any other port therein, or Conveyance of to any foreign port, or from any foreign port to any port in the United bullion, coin, &c. States, shall, before clearance, receive on board all such bullion, coin, for the United United States notes and bonds and other securities, as the Government States. of the United States or any department thereof, or any minister, consul, vice-consul, or commercial or other agent of the United States abroad, shall offer, and shall securely convey and promptly deliver the same to the proper authorities or consignees, on arriving at the port of destination; and shall receive for such service such reasonable compensation as may be allowed to other carriers in the ordinary transactions of business.

4 July, 1864, s. 10, v. 13, p. 392.

An act approved June 23, 1874, v. 18, p. 252, allows the name to be painted on her stern in yellow or gilt letters.

Copy of rates

to be annexed to clearance.

SEC. 4207. Whenever any clearance is granted to any vessel of the of consular fees United States, duly registered as such, and bound on any foreign voyage, the collector of the district shall annex thereto, in every case, a copy of the rates or tariffs of fees which diplomatic and consular officers are entitled, by the regulations prescribed by the President, to receive for their services.

Title 48, Chap. 5.

Vessels strand

on

coasts.

18 Aug., 1856, s. 16, v. 11, p. 57.

SEC. 4238. Consuls and vice-consuls, in cases where vessels of the United States are stranded on the coasts of their consulates respectively, ed foreign shall, as far as the laws of the country will permit, take proper measures, as well for the purpose of saving the vessels, their cargoes and appurtenances, as for storing and securing the effects and merchandise saved, and for taking inventories thereof; and the merchandise and effects saved, with the inventories thereof so taken, shall, after deducting therefrom the expenses, be delivered to the owners. No consul or vice-consul shall have authority to take possession of any such merchandise, or other property, when the master, owner, or consignee thereof is present or capable of taking possession of the same.

Title 49.

14 April, 1792, s. 3, v. 1, p. 255.

SEC. 4306. Every vessel of the United States, going to any foreign Passports of country, shall, before she departs from the United States, at the request United States of the master, be furnished by the collector for the district where such vessels on depart. vessel may be, with a passport, the form for which shall be prescribed ure to foreign by the Secretary of State. In order to be entitled to such passport, the

country.

master of every such vessel shall be bound, with sufficient sureties, to the Treasurer of the United States, in the penalty of two thousand dollars, conditioned that the passport shall not be applied to the use or protection of any other vessel than the one described in it; and that, in case of the loss or sale of any vessel having such passport, the same shall, within three months, be delivered up to the collector from whom it was received, if the loss or sale take place within the United States; or within six months, if the same shall happen at any place nearer than the Cape of Good Hope; and within eighteen months, if at a more distant place.

1 June, 1796, ss. 1, 2, v. 1, p. 489.

12 Feb., 1831, v. 4, p. 441.

Penalty for deSEC. 4307. If any vessel of the United States shall depart therefrom, parture without and shall be bound to any foreign country, other than to some port in America, without such passport, the master of such vessel shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred dollars for every such offense.

passport.

sels.

1 June, 1796, s. 4, v. 1, p. 490.

Passports of SEC. 4308. Every unregistered vessel owned by a citizen of the United unregistered ves- States, and sailing with a sea-letter, going to any foreign country, shall, before she departs from the United States, at the request of the master, be furnished by the collector of the district where such vessel may be with a passport, for which the master shall be subject to the rules and conditions prescribed for vessels of the United States.

Deposit of ship's papers with consul.

2 March, 1803, s. 1, v. 2, p. 208.

SEC. 4309. Every master of a vessel, belonging to citizens of the United States, who shall sail from any port of the United States, shall, on his arrival at a foreign port, deposit his register, sea-letter, and Mediterranean passport with the consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, if any there be at such port; and it shall be the duty of such consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, on such master or commander producing to him a clearance from the proper officer of the port where his vessel may be, to deliver to the master all of his papers, if such master or commander has complied with the provisions of law relating to the discharge of seamen in a foreign country, and to the payment of the fees of consular officers.

28 Feb., 1803, s. 2, v. 2, p. 203.

Penalty for fail. SEC. 4310. Every master of any such vessel who refuses or neglects ure to deposit pa- to deposit the papers as required by the preceding section, shall be lipers with consul. able to a penalty of five hundred dollars, to be recovered by such consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, in his

own name, for the benefit of the United States, in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Ibid.

SEC. 4573. Before a clearance is granted to any vessel bound on a for- Title 53, Chap. 5. eign voyage or engaged in the whale-fishery, the master thereof shall List of crew to deliver to the collector of the customs a list containing the names, be delivered to places of birth and residence, and description of the persons who com- collector. pose his ship's company; to which list the oath of the captain shall be annexed, that the list contains the names of his crew, together with the places of their birth and residence, as far as he can ascertain them; and the collector shall deliver him a certified copy thereof, for which the collector shall be entitled to receive the sum of twenty-five cents. 28 Feb., 1803, s. 1, v. 9, p. 203.

4 April, 1840, s. 2, v. 2, p. 370.

SEC. 4574. In all cases of private vessels of the United States sailing from a port in the United States to a foreign port, the list of the crew shall be examined by the collector for the district from which the vessel shall clear, and, if approved of by him, shall be certified accordingly. No person shall be admitted or employed on board of any such vessel unless his name shall have been entered in the list of the crew, approved and certified by the collector for the district from which the vessel shall clear. The collector, before he delivers the list of the crew, approved and certified, to the master or proper officer of the vessel to which the same belongs, shall cause the same to be recorded in a book by him for that purpose to be provided, and the record shall be open for the inspection of all persons, and a certified copy thereof shall be admitted in evidence in any court in which any question may arise under any of the provisions of this Title.

3 March, 1813, s. 3, v. 2, p. 809.

SEC. 4575. The following rules shall be observed with reference to vessels bound on any foreign voyage:

First. The duplicate list of the ship's company, required to be made out by the master and delivered to the collector of the customs, under section forty-five hundred and seventy-three, shall be a fair copy in one uniform handwriting, without erasure or interlineation.

Second It shall be the duty of the owners of every such vessel to obtain from the collector of the customs of the district from which the clearance is made, a true and certified copy of the shipping-articles, containing the names of the crew, which shall be written in a uniform hand, without erasures or interlineations.

Third. These documents, which shall be deemed to contain all the conditions of contract with the crew as to their service, pay, voyage, and all other things. shall be produced by the master, and laid before any consul, or other commercial agent of the United States, whenever he may deem their contents necessary to enable him to discharge the duties imposed upon him by law toward any mariner applying to him for his aid or assistance.

Fourth. All interlineations, erasures, or writing in a hand different from that in which such duplicates were originally made, shall be deemed fraudulent alterations, working no change in such papers, unless satisfactorily explained in a manner consistent with innocent purposes and the provisions of law which guard the rights of mariners. Fifth. If any master of a vessel shall proceed on a foreign voyage without the documents herein required, or refuse to produce them when required, or to perform the duties imposed by this section, or shall violate the provisions thereof, he shall be liable to each and every individual injured thereby in damages, to be recovered in any court of the United States in the district where such delinquent may reside or be found, and in addition thereto be punishable by a fine of one hundred dollars for each offense.

Sixth. It shall be the duty of the boarding-officer to report all violations of this section to the collector of the port where any vessel may arrive, and the collector shall report the same to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the United States attorney in his district.

20 July, 1840, ch. 48, v. 5, pp. 394, 395, 397.

27 Feb., 1877, v. 19, p. 252.

Rules as to list of crew.

&c.

Title 70, Chap. 3. SEC. 5358. Every person who plunders, steals, or destroys any money Plundering goods, merchandise, or other effects, from or belonging to any vessel in wrecked vessels, distress, or wrecked, lost, stranded, or cast away, upon the sea, or upon any reef, shoal, bank, or rocks of the sea, or in any other place within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States; and every person who willfully obstructs the escape of any person endeavoring to save his life from such vessel, or the wreck thereof; and every person who holds out or shows any false light, or extinguishies any true light, with intent to bring any vessel, sailing upon the sea, into danger, or distress, or shipwreck, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, and imprisoned at hard labor not more than ten years.

3 March, 1825, s. 9, v. 4, p. 116.

Conspiracy to SEC. 5364. Every person who, on the high seas, or within the United cast away vessel. States, willfully and corruptly conspires, combines, and confederates with any other person, such other person being either within or with.out the United States, to cast away or otherwise destroy any vessel, with intent to injure any person that may have underwritten or may thereafterward underwrite any policy of insurance thereon or on goods on board thereof, or with intent to injure any person that has lent or advanced, or may lend or advance, any money on such vessel on bottomry or respondentia; and every person who, within the United States, builds, or fits out, or aids in building and fitting out, any vessel with intent that the same be cast away or destroyed with the intent hereinbefore mentioned, shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars, and by imprisonment at hard labor not more than ten years.

Owner destroy.

Ibid., s. 23, p. 122.

SEC. 5365. Every person who, on the high seas, willfully and coring vessel at sea, ruptly casts away or otherwise destroys any vessel of which he is owner, in whole or part, with intent to prejudice any person that may underwrite any policy of insurance thereon, or any merchant that may have goods thereon, or any other owner of such vessel, shall suffer death. [See 5323, PIRACY.]

Other persons

26 March, 1804, s. 2, v. 2 p. 290.

SEC. 5366. Every person, not being an owner, who, on the high seas, destroying vessel willfully and corruptly casts away or otherwise destroys any vessel to which he belongs, being the property of any citizen, shall suffer death. [See § 5323, PIRACY.]

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pers or custom

2 March, 1804, s. 1, v. 2. p. 290.

3 March, 1875, v. 18, p. 479. See p. 229.

SEC. 5367. Every person, not being an owner, who, on the high seas, willfully, with intent to destroy the same, sets fire to any vessel, or otherwise attempts the destruction thereof, being the property of any citizen, shall suffer imprisonment at hard labor for a term not more than ten years nor less than three years.

29 July, 1850, s. 7, v. 9, p. 441.

SEC. 5423. If any person falsely makes, forges, counterfeits, or alters any instrument in imitation of, or purporting to be, an abstract or offiForging or al cial copy, or certificate of the recording, registry, or enrollment of any tering ship's pa vessel, in the office of any collector of the customs, or a license to any house documents. vessel, for carrying on the coasting trade, or fisheries of the United States, or a certificate of ownership, pass, passport, sea-letter, or clearance, granted for any vessel, under the authority of the United States, or a permit, debenture, or other official document granted by any collector or other officer of the customs, by virtue of his office; or passes, utters, or publishes, or attempts to pass, utter, or publish, as true, any such false, forged, counterfeited, or falsely altered instrument, abstract, official copy, certificate, license, pass, passport, sea-letter, clearance, permit, debenture, or other official document herein specified, knowing the same to be false, forged, counterfeited, or falsely altered, with an intent to defraud, he shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment at hard labor not more than three years. [See § 4191.]

3 March, 1825, s. 19, v. 4, p. 120.

YACHTS.

License of

SEC. 4214. The Secretary of the Treasury may cause yachts used and Title 48, Chap. 2. employed exclusively as pleasure vessels or designed as models of naval architecture, if built and owned in compliance with the provisions of yachts. sections forty-one hundred and thirty-three to forty-one hundred and thirty-five, to be licensed on terms which will authorize them to proceed from port to port of the United States, and by sea to foreign ports, without entering or clearing at the custom house, such license shall be in such form as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. The owner of any such vessel, before taking out such license, shall give a bond in such form and for such amount as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, conditioned that the vessel shall not engage in any trade, nor in any way violate the revenue laws of the United States; and shall comply with the laws in all other respects. Such vessels, so enrolled and licensed, shall not be allowed to transport merchandise or carry passengers for pay. Such vessels shall have their name and port placed on some conspicuous portion of their hulls. Such vessels shall, in all, respects, except as above, be subject to the laws of the United States, and shall be liable to seizure and forfeiture for any violation of the provisions of this title: Provided, That all charges for license and inspection fees for any pleasure vessel or yacht shall not exceed five dollars, and for admeasurement shall not exceed ten cents per ton.

7 Aug., 1848, s. 2, v. 9, p. 274.
20 June, 1870, s. 1, v. 16, p. 171.

3 March, 1883, ch. 133, v. 22, p. 566.

SEC. 4215. All such licensed yachts shall use a signal of the form, size, Signals of yachts. and colors prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy; and the owners thereof, shall at all times permit the naval architects in the employ of the United States to examine and copy the models of such yachts.

7 Aug., 1848, s. 3, v. 9, p. 274.

SEC. 4216. Yachts, belonging to a regularly organized yacht club of Yachts belongany foreign nation which shall extend like privileges to the yachts of ing to foreign the United States, shall have the privilege of entering or leaving any yacht-clubs. port of the United States without entering or clearing at the customhouse thereof, or paying tonnage tax.

29 June, 1870, s. 2, v. 16, p. 170.

Commissions to

SEC. 4217. For the identification of yachts and their owners, a commission to sail for pleasure in any designated yacht belonging to any yachts. regularly organized and incorporated yacht club, stating the exemptions and privileges enjoyed under it, may be issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, and shall be a token of credit to any United States official, and to the authorities of any foreign power, for privileges enjoyed under it.

Ibid., s. 3.

SEC. 4218. Every yacht visiting a foreign country under the provisions Entry of yachts, of the four preceding sections shall, on her return to the United States,

make due entry at the custom-house of the port at which, on such return, she shall arrive.

Sec.

Ibid., s. 4, p. 171.

MURDER, MANSLAUGHTER, MAIMING, MUTINY, &c.

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SEC. 1624. ART. 6. If any person belonging to any public vessel of the Title 15, Chap.10. United States commits the crime of murder without the territorial jurisiction thereof, he may be tried by court-martial and punished with

death.

17 July, 1862, s. 1, v. 12, p. 602.

Murder.

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