§ 4240. Forfeitures for taking wrecked property to foreign ports.-Every vessel which shall be engaged or employed in carrying or transporting any property whatsoever, taken from any wreck, from the sea, or from any of the keys or shoals, within the jurisdiction of the United States, on the coast of Florida, to any foreign port, shall, together with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, be forfeited, and all forfeitures incurred by virtue of this section shall accrue, one moiety to the informer and the other to the United States.

§ 4241. License to wreckers.-No vessel, or master thereof, shall be regularly employed in the business of wrecking on the coast of Florida without the license of the judge of the district court for the district of Florida; and, before licensing any vessel or master, the judge shall be satisfied that the vessel is sea-worthy, and properly and sufficiently fitted and equipped for the business of saving property shipwrecked and in distress; and that the master thereof is trustworthy, and innocent of any fraud or misconduct in relation to any property shipwrecked or saved on the coast.

§ 4242. Life-saving stations.-The Secretary of the Treasury may establish such stations on the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, for affording aid to shipwrecked vessels thereon, and may make such changes in the location of the existing stations, and make such repairs and furnish such apparatus and supplies, as may, in his judgment, be best adapted to the preservation of life and property from such shipwrecked vessels.

Persons in immediate charge of life-saving service are to make report of expenditures and operations of the same-Act of July 31st, 1876; 19 U. S. Stats. 107. An Act of June 20th, 1874 (18 U. S. Stats. 125), providing for the establishment of life-saving stations and regulating the service, will be found in the appendix to this volume.

§ 4243. Superintendents and keepers.-The Secretary of the Treasury may appoint, at each of the stations established under the provisions of the preceding section, a keeper, at a compensation not exceeding two hundred dollars a year, and a superintendent, who shall also have the powers and perform the duties of an inspector of the customs for each of the coasts therein mentioned; and he shall give such keepers and superintendents proper in-. structions relative to the duties to be required of them.

§ 4244. Crews of surf-men.-The Secretary of the Treasury may also employ crews of experienced surfmen at such stations on the coasts of Long Island and

New Jersey, and for such periods as he may deem necessary and proper, and at such compensation as he may deem reasonable, not to exceed forty dollars a month for each person to be employed.

§ 4245. Stations at light-houses.-The Secretary of the Treasury may also establish such stations at such light-houses as, in his judgment, he shall deem best, and the keepers of such lights shall take charge of such boats and apparatus as may be put in their charge respectively, as a part of their official duties.

§ 4246. Care of boats.-No boat shall be purchased and located, under the provisions of the four preceding sections, at any point other than on the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, unless the same be placed in the immediate care of an officer of the Government, or unless bond shall be given by proper individuals, living in the neighborhood, conditioned for the care and preservation of the same, and its application to the uses intended.

§ 4247. Keepers, etc.-The Secretary of the Treasury may appoint a keeper for each of the ten life-saving stations on the coasts of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Block Island, Rhode Island, whose compensation shall be at the rate of two hundred dollars per annum, and may employ crews of experienced surfmen at such stations and for such periods as he may deem necessary and proper, and at such compensation as he may deem reasonable, not to exceed forty dollars per month for each person to be employed.

The Secretary of War may connect signal stations and life-saving stations by telegraph lines-Rev. Stats. sec. 223.

§ 4248. Stations on coast of Rhode Island.-The life-saving stations at Narragansett Pier, and Block Island, Rhode Island, shall be under the supervision of the superintendent of life-saving stations for the coast of Long Island.

§ 4249. Stations on coasts of Maine, Virginia, etc.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall provide for the establishment of ten life-saving stations on the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina, at such points as he may deem necessary, for the saving of life and property on said coasts: Provided, That all life-saving stations hereafter erected, shall be erected under the supervision of two captains of the revenue service, to be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, and to be under his direction.

§ 4250. Removal of captain by owners of vessels.-Any person or body-corporate having more than one-half ownership of any vessel shall have the same power to remove a master, who is also part owner of such vessel, as such majority owners have to remove a master not an owner. This section shall not apply where there is a valid written agreement subsisting, by virtue of which such master would be entitled to possession, nor in any case where a master has possession as part owner, obtained before the *ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

*The word "nineteenth" stricken out, and the word "ninth" inserted-Amendatory Act of February 18th, 1875; 18 U. S. Stats. 320.

§ 4251. Canal-boats.-No canal-boat, without masts or steam-power, which is required to be registered, licensed, or enrolled and licensed, shall be subject to be libeled in any of the United States courts for the wages of any person who may be employed on board thereof, or in navigating the same.

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CHAPTER SIX.

TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS AND MERCHANDISE.

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.

§ 4252. Space for passengers in vessels arriving from foreign ports.-No master of any vessel owned in whole or in part by a citizen of the United States, or by a citizen of any foreign country, shall take on board such vessel, at any foreign port or place other than foreign contiguous territory of the United States, passengers contrary

to the provisions of this section, with intent to bring such passengers to the United States and leave such port or place and bring such passengers, or any number thereof, within the jurisdiction of the United States. The number of such passengers shall not be greater than in the proportion of one to every two tons of such vessel, not including children under the age of one year in the computation, and computing two children over one and under eight years of age as one passenger. The spaces appropriated for the use of such passengers, and which shall not be occupied by stores or other goods, not the personal baggage of such passengers, shall be in the following proportions: On the main and poop decks or platforms, and in the deck-houses, if there be any, one passenger for each sixteen clear superficial feet of deck, if the height or distance between the decks or platforms shall not be less than six feet; and on the lower deck, not being an orlop deck, if any, one passenger for eighteen such clear superficial feet, if the height or distance between the decks or platforms shall not be less than six feet, but so as that no passenger shall be carried on any other deck or platform, nor upon any deck where the height or distance between decks is less than six feet. But on board two-deck ships, where the height between the decks is seven and one-half feet or more, fourteen clear superficial feet of deck shall be the proportion required for each passenger. The term "contiguous territory," as used in this section, shall not be held to extend to any port or place connecting with any interoceanic route through Mexico.

The Manhattan, 2 Ben. 88; U. S. v. Morton, 1 Low. 179. Sufficiency of libel under old statute-U. S. v. The Neurea, 19 How. 95; Desty S. & A. $268.

§ 4253. Penalty for taking too many passengers. Whenever the master of any such vessel takes on board of the same, at any foreign port or place, other than such contiguous territory, any greater number of passengers than in the proportion to the space or to the tonnage prescribed in the preceding section, with intent to bring such passengers to the United States, and leaves such port or place and brings such passengers within the jurisdiction of the United States, or takes on board his vessel, at any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States. any greater number of passengers than in the proportion to the space or to the tonnage prescribed by the preceding section, with intent to carry the same to any foreign port or place other than such foreign contiguous territory, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, for