SCALE OF PROVISIONS TO BE ALLOWED AND SERVED OUT TO THE CREW DURING THE VOYAGE.

(Here any stipuluation for changes, or substitution of one article for another, may be inserted.)

SUBSTITUTES.

One ounce of coffee, or cocoa, or chocolate, may be substituted for onequarter ounce of tea; molasses for sugar, the quantity to be one-half more; one pound of potatoes or yams, one-half pound flour or rice; onethird pint of pease or one-quarter pint of barley may be substituted for each other. When fresh meat is issued, the proportion to be two pounds per man per day, in lieu of salt meat. Flour, rice, and pease, beef and pork, may be substituted for each other, and, for potatoes, onions may be substituted.

I certify that the above particulars are correct, and that the abovenamed seaman was discharged accordingly.

Dated day of -, eighteen hundred and

(Signed)

(Countersigned)

Seaman.

Given to the above-named seaman in my presence thiseighteen hundred and

(Signed)

Master.

day of

Shipping-Commissioner.

TABLE C.

FEES (SEAMEN).

Fee payable on engaging crew, for each member of the crew (except apprentices)

Fee payable on discharging crew, for each member of crew discharged

$2.00

50

TABLE D.

FEES (APPRENTICES).

For each boy apprenticed to the merchant service, including the indenture...

TABLE E.

$5.00

REDUCTION FROM WAGES OF SEAMEN.

In partial repayment of the fees payable in Table C, in respect of engagements, from the wages of each member of the crew, twenty-five cents. In respect of discharges, from the wages of each member of the crew, twenty-five cents.

1390..SEC. 5271. [In every case of complaint, and of a hearing upon the return of the warrant of arrest, copies of the depositions upon which an original warrant in any foreign country may have been granted, certified under the hand of the person issuing such warrant, and attested upon the oath of the party producing them to be true copies of the original depositions, may be received in evidence of the criminality of the person so apprehended, if they are authenticated

in such manner as would entitle them to be received for similar purposes by the tribunals of the foreign country from which the accused party escaped. The certificate of the principal Diplomatic or Consular Officer of the United States resident in such foreign country shall be proof that any paper or other document 80 offered is authenticated in the manner required by this section.] [In every case of complaint and of a hearing upon the return of the warrant of arrest, any depositions, warrants, or other papers offered in evidence, shall be admitted and received for the purpose of such hearing if they shall be properly and legally authenticated so as to entitle them to be received as evidence of the criminality of the person so apprehended, by the tribunals of the foreign country from which the accused party shall have escaped, and copies of any such depositions, warrants, or other papers, shall, if authenticated according to the law of such foreign country, be in like manner received as evidence; and the certificate of the principal Diplomatic or Consular Officer of the United States resident in such foreign country shall be proof that any such deposition, warrant, or other paper, or copy thereof, is authenticated in the manner required by this section.]

Crimes arising within the Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction of the United States.

1391..SEC. 5363. Every master or commander of any vessel belonging, in whole or in part, to any citizen of the United States, who, during his being abroad, maliciously and without justifiable cause forces any officer or mariner of such vessel on shore, in order to leave him behind in any foreign port or place, or refuses to bring home again all such officers and mariners of such vessel whom he carried out with him as are in a condition to return and willing to return, when he is ready to proceed on his homeward voyage, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not more than six months.

1392..SEC. 5442. Every Consul, Vice-Cousul, Commercial Agent, or Vice-Commercial Agent, who knowingly and falsely certifies to any invoice or other papers to which his certificate is by law authorized or required, shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars, and by imprisonment for a term not more than three years. (See & 1715, 1717.)

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1393..SEC. 5495. The refusal of any person, whether in or out of office, charged with the safe-keeping, transfer, or disbursement of the public money, to pay any draft, order, or warrant, drawn upon him by the proper accounting officer of the Treasury, for any public money in his hands belonging to the United States, no matter in what capacity the same may have been received or may be held, or to transfer or disburse any such money promptly, upon the legal requirement of any authorized officer, shall be deemed, upon the trial of any indictment against such person for embezzlement, as prima-facie evidence of such embezzlement.

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JOINT RESOLUTION providing for a change in the name and title of the Agent and Consul-General of the United States at Alexandria, approved January 8, 1874. 1394.. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the name and title of the Agent and Consul-General of the United States at Alexandria shall, from the passage of this joint resolution, be "Agent and Consul-General of the United States at Cairo."

AN ACT to authorize the President to accept for citizens of the United States the jurisdiction of certain tribunals in the Ottoman dominions and Egypt, established, or to be established, under the authority of the Sublime Porte, and of the Government of Egypt, approved March 23, 1874.

1395.. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the President of the United States shall receive satisfactory information that the Ottoman Government, or that of Egypt, has organized other tribunals on a basis likely to secure to citizens of the United States, in their dominions, the same impartial justice which they now enjoy there under the judicial functions exercised by the Minister, Consuls, and other functionaries of the United States, pursuant to the act of Congress approved the twenty-second of June, eighteen hundred and sixty, entitled "An act to carry into effect provisions of the treaties between the United States, China, Persia, and other countries, giving certain judicial powers to Ministers and Consuls, or other functionaries of the United States in those countries, and for other purposes," he is hereby authorized to suspend the operations of said acts as to the dominions in which such tribunals may be organized, so far as the jurisdiction of said tribunals may embrace matters now cognizable by the Minister, Consuls, or other functionaries of the United States in said dominions, and to notify the Government of the Sublime Porte, or that of Egypt, or either of them, that the United States, during such suspension will, as aforesaid, accept for their citizens the jurisdiction of the tribunals aforesaid over citizens of the United States which has heretofore been exercised by the Minister, Consuls, or other functionaries of the United States.

1396..SEC. 2. That the President is hereby authorized, for the benefit of American citizens residing in the Turkish dominions, to accept the recent law of the Ottoman Porte ceding the right of foreigners possessing immovable property in said dominions.

AN ACT in reference to the operations of the shipping-commissioners act, approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, approved June 9, 1874. 1397.. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That none of the provisions of an act entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of shippingcommissioners by the several circuit courts of the United States to superintend the shipping and discharge of seamen engaged in merchant-ships belonging to the United States, and for the further protection of seamen," shall apply to sail or steam vessels engaged in the coast wise trade, except the coastwise trade between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts or in the lake-going trade, touching at foreign ports or otherwise, or in the trade between the United States and the British North American possessions. or in any case where the seamen are by custom or agreement entitled to participate in the profits or result of a cruise or voyage.

AN ACT making appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes, approved June 11, 1874.

and the bonds which Consular Officers who are not compensated by salaries are required by the thirteenth section of the act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, to enter into shall hereafter be made with such sureties as the Secretary of State shall approve.

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1399..SEC. 4. That the Secretary of State shall, as soon as practicable, establish and determine the maximum amount of time actually necessary to make the transit between each Diplomatic and Consular Post and the city of Washington, and vice versa, and shall make the same public. He may also, from time to time, revise his decision in this respect; but in each case the decision is to be in like manner made public. And the allowance for time actually and necessarily occupied by each Diplomatic and Consular Officer who may be entitled to such allowance shall in no case exceed that for the time thus established and determined, with the addition of the time usually occupied by the shortest and most direct mode of conveyance from Washington to the place of residence in the United States of such officer.

1400..SEC. 5. That from and after the first day of July next, the annual salary of Consular Clerks who shall have remained continuously in service as such for the period of five years and upward shall be one thousand two hundred dollars.

1401..SEC. 6. That any Vice-Consul who may be temporarily acting as Consul during the absence of such Consul may receive compensation, notwithstanding that he is not a citizen of the United States.

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AN ACT relating to Ambassadors, Consuls, and other officers, approved June 17, 1874. 1402.. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no Ambassador, Envoy Extraordinary, Minister Plenipotentiary, Minister Resident, Com