and superintendents proper instructions relative to the duties to be required of them. SEC. 4244. 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. SEC. 4245. 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. SEC. 4246. 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. SEC. 4247. 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. (See § 223.] Supervision of stations on coast SEC. 4243. The life-saving stations at Narragansett Pier, and Block Island, Rhode Island, shall be under the of Rhode Island. supervision of the superintendent of life-saving stations for the coast of Long Island. SEC. 4249. 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. Ibid. Stations on coasts of Maine, II, Mass., Vir ginia, &c. 307, s.1,v.17, p.619. 3 March, 1873, c. Removal of captain by owners of vessels. 9 April, 1872, c. 90, v. 17, p. 51. Canal-boats not to be libeled for wages. 20 July, 1846, c. 60, s. 1, v. 9, p. 58. SEC. 4250. 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 nineteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. SEC. 4251. 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. Space for pass Sec. CHAPTER SIX. TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS AND MER CHANDISE. 4252. Space for passengers in ves- 4254. Lockers and hospitals. 4255. Berths. 4256. Houses on deck. 4257. Ventilators. 4258. Cooking-range. 4259. Penalty for neglect to com. 4260. Provisions. 4265. Vessels bound to or from the 4266. Lists of passengers. 4269. Penalty for refusal to pay. zation societies. 4272. Examination of emigrant 4289. Exception to limitation of vessels by collector. liability. SEC. 4252. No master of any vessel owned in whole or engers in vessels in part by a citizen of the United States, or by a citizen arriving from for eign ports. 3 March, 1855, c. 213, s. 1, v. 10, p. 715. 4 July, 1864, o 390. 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 340, s. 1, v. 13, p. 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. Penalty for tak ing too many pas 3 March, 1855, c. 213, s. 1, v. 10, p. 716. U. S. vs. Brig Neurea, 19 How., 94. SEC. 4253. Whenever the master of any such vessel takes on board of the same, at any foreign port or place, sengers. 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 for Lockers and hospitals. 3 March, 1855, c. 716. eign contiguous territory, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, for each passenger taken on board beyond such limit or space, be fined fifty dollars, and may also be imprisoned for not exceeding six months. SEC. 4254. Should it be necessary for the safety or convenience of such vessel that any portion of her cargo, or 213, s. 1, v. 10, p. any other article, should be placed on or stored in any of the decks, cabins, or other places appropriated to the use of passengers, the same may be placed in lockers or inclosures prepared for the purpose, on an exterior surface impervious to the waves, capable of being cleansed in like manner as the decks or platforms of the vessel. But in no case shall the places thus provided be deemed to be a part of the space allowable for the use of passengers, but the same shall be deducted therefrom; and in all cases where such lockers or enclosed spaces are prepared or used, the upper surface thereof shall be deemed the deck or platform from which measurement shall be made for all the purposes of this chapter. One hospital, in the spaces appropriated to passengers, and separate therefrom by an appropriate partition, and furnished as its purposes require, may be prepared, and, when used, may be included in the space allowable for passengers; but the same shall not occupy more than one hundred superficial feet of deck or platform. SEC. 4255. No such vessel shall have more than two tiers of berths. The interval between the lowest part thereof and the deck or platform beneath shall not be less than nine inches; and the berths shall be well constructed, parallel with the sides of the vessel, and separated from each other by partitions, as berths ordinarily are separated, and shall be at least six feet in length, and at least two feet in width, and each such berth shall be occupied by no more than one passenger; but double berths of twice the above width may be constructed, each berth to be occupied by no more and by no other than two women, or by one woman and two children under the age of eight years, or by husband and wife, or by a man and two of his own children under the age of eight years, or by two men, members of the same family. For any violation of this section, the master of the vessel, and the owners thereof, shall severally be liable to a penalty of five dollars for each passenger on board of such vessel on such voyage, to be recovered by the United States in any port where such vessel may arrive or dopart. Houses on deck. 3 March, 1855, c. 213, s. 3, v. 10, p. SEC. 4256. All vessels, whether of the United States or any foreign country, having sufficient space, according to law, for fifty or more passengers, other than cabin 716. passengers, shall, when employed in transporting such passengers between the United States and Europe, have, on the upper deck, for the use of such passengers, a house over the passenger-way leading to the apartments allotted to such passengers below deck, firmly secured to the deck or combings of the hatch, with two doors, the sills of which shall be at least one foot above the deck, so constructed that one door or window in such house may at all times be left open for ventilation. All vessels so employed, and having the capacity to carry one hundred and fifty such passengers or more, shall have two such houses; and the stairs or ladder leading down to such apartments shall be furnished with a hand-rail of wood or strong rope; but booby-hatches may be substituted for such houses. Ventilators. 3 March, 1855, c. 213, s. 4, V. 10, p. SEC. 4257. Every such vessel so employed in transporting passengers between the United States and Europe, and having space according to law for more than one hundred 717. such passengers, shall have at least two ventilators to purify each apartment occupied by such passengers; one of which shall be inserted in the after part, and the other in the forward part of the apartment, and one of them shall have an exhausting-cap to carry off the foul air, and the other a receiving-cap to carry down the fresh air. Such ventilators shall have a capacity proportioned to the size of the apartments to be purified, namely: If the apartments will lawfully authorize the reception of two hundred such passengers, the capacity of each of such ventilators shall be equal to a tube of twelve inches diameter in the clear, and in proportion for larger or smaller apartments. All such ventilators shall rise at least four feet six inches above the upper deck of any such ves. sel, and be of the most approved form and construction. If it appears from the report to be made and approved, as provided in section forty-two hundred and seventytwo, that such vessel is equally well ventilated by any other means, such other means of ventilation shall be deemed to be a compliance with the provisions of this section. SEC. 4258. Every vessel carrying more than fifty such passengers, and engaged in transporting them between the United States and Europe, shall have for their use Cooking-range. |