Penalty for neg lecting to comply ments. 3 March, 1855, c. 718. on deck, housed and conveniently arranged, at least one camboose or cooking-range, the dimensions of which shall be equal to four feet long and one foot six inches wide for every two hundred passengers; and provision shall be made in the same manner, in this ratio, for a greater or less number of passengers; but nothing in this section shall take away the right to make such arrangements for cooking between decks, if that shall be deemed desirable. SEC. 4259. The master and owner of any such vessel with require so employed, which shall not be provided with the house or houses over the passageways, or with the ventilators, 213, s. 8, v. 10, p. or with the cambooses or cooking-ranges with the houses over them, required by this Title, shall severally be lia ble to a penalty of two hundred dollars for each and every violation of, or neglect to conform to, each of these requirements, to be recovered by suit in any circuit or district court of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such vessel may arrive, or from which she may be about to depart, or at any place within the jurisdiction of such courts, wherever the owner or master of such vessel may be found. Provisions. 3 March, 1855, C. 213, s. 6, v. 10, p. 717. SEC. 4260. All vessels so employed in transporting passengers between the United States and Europe shall have on board, for the use of such passengers, at the time of leaving the last port whence such vessel shall sail, well secured under deck, for each passenger, at least twenty pounds of good navy bread, fifteen pounds of rice, fifteen pounds of oat-meal, ten pounds of wheatflour, fifteen pounds of pease and beans, twenty pounds of potatoes, one pint of vinegar, sixty gallons of fresh water, ten pounds of salt pork, and ten pounds of salt beef, free of bone, all to be of good quality. At places where either rice, oatmeal, wheat-flour, or pease and beans cannot be procured, of good quality and on reasonable terms, the quantity of either or any of the other last-named articles may be increased and substituted therefor; and, in case potatoes cannot be procured on reasonable terms, one pound of either of such articles may be substituted in lieu of five pounds of potatoes. The masters of such vessels shall deliver to each passenger at least one-tenth part of such provisions weekly, commencing on the day of sailing, and at least three quarts of water daily. Penalty for failure to provide provisions and water. 3 March, 1855, c. 718. SEC. 4261. If the passengers on board of any such vessel in which the provisions and water shall not have been provided as required by the preceding section, shall, at any time, be put on short allowance during any voyage, the 213, s. 6, v. 10, p. master or owner of any sucl. vessel shall pay to each passenger put on short allowance, the sum of three dollars for each and every day such passenger may have been put on short allowance, to be recovered in the circuit or district court of the United States. SEC. 4262. It shall be the duty of the master of every vessel employed in transporting passengers between the United States and Europe, to cause the food and provissions of all the passengers to be well and properly cooked, daily, and to be served out and distributed to them at regular and stated hours, by messes, or in such other manner as shall be deemed best and most conducive to the health and comfort of such passengers, of which hours and manner of distribution due and sufficient notice shall be given. Every master of any such vessel who willfully fails to furnish and distribute provisions in the quantity and cooked in the manner required by this Title shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, and imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year. The enforcement of this penalty, however, shall not affect the civil responsibility of the master and owners to such passengers as may have suffered from such default. SEC. 4263. The master of any vessel employed in transporting passengers between the United States and Europe is authorized to maintain good discipline and such habits of cleanliness among passengers as will tend to the preservation and promotion of health; and to that end he shall cause such regulations as he may adopt for this purpose to be posted up, before sailing, on board such vessel, in a place accessible to such passengers, and shall keep the same so posted up during the voyage. Such master shall cause the apartments occupied by such passengers to be kept at all times in a clean, healthy state; and the owners of every such vessel so employed are required to construct the decks and all parts of the apartments so that they can be thoroughly cleansed; and also to provide a safe, convenient privy or water-closet for the exclusive use of every one hundred such passengers. The master shall also, when the weather is such that the passengers cannot be. mustered on deck with Distribution of provisions. 3 March, 1855, c* 213, s. 6, v. 10, p. 717. Discipline and health. 3 March, 1855, c. 213, s. 7, v. 10, p. 718. Inspection of passenger vessels. 3 March, 1855, c. 718. their bedding, and at such other times as he may deem necessary, cause the deck occupied by such passengers to be cleansed with chloride of lime, or some other equally efficient disinfecting agent. And for each neglect or violation of any of the provisions of this section, the master and owner of any such vessel shall be severally liable to the United States in a penalty of fifty dollars, to be recovered in any circuit or district court within the jurisdiction of which such vessel may arrive, or from which she is about to depart, or at any place where the owner or master may be found. SEC. 4264. The collector of the customs, at any port at which any vessel so employed shall arrive, or from 213, s. 9, v. 10, p. which any such vessel shall be about to depart, shall appoint and direct one or more of the inspectors of the customs for such port to examine such vessel, and rerort in writing to him whether the requirements of law have been complied with in respect to such vessel; and if such report shall state such compliance, and shall be approved by such collector, it shall be deemed prima-facie evidence thereof. [See § 4272.] Vessels bound to or from the Pacific Ocean. 213, s. 11, v. 10, p. 719. 4 July, 1864, c. 390. SEC. 4265. Vessels bound from any port in the United States to any port or place in the Pacific Ocean, or on its 3 March, 1855, c. tributaries, or from any such port or place to any port in the United States on the Atlantic, or its tributaries, in249, s. 2, v. 13, p. cluding vessels whose passengers, or any part of them, shall be bound from or to any of those ports or places, by way of any overland route through Mexico or Central America, shall be subject to the foregoing provisions regulating the carriage of passengers in merchant-vessels, except so much as relates to food and water; but the owners and masters of such vessels shall in all cases furnish to each passenger the daily supply of water therein mentioned; and they shall furnish a sufficient supply of good and wholesome food, properly cooked; and in case they shall fail so to do, or shall provide unwholesome or unsuitable food, such masters or owners shall be liable to pay to each passenger the sum of three dollars for each day on which such failure or wrongful act is committed, to be recovered in the circuit or district court of the United States. Lists of passengers. 3 March, 1855, c. SEC. 4266. The master of any vessel arriving in the United States, or any of the Territories thereof, from any 213, s. 12, v. 10, p. foreign place whatever, at the same time that he delivers a manifest of the cargo, and if there be no cargo, then at 719 the time of making report or entry of the vessel, pursuant to law, shall also deliver and report to the collector of the district in which such vessel shall arrive a list of all the passengers taken on board of the vessel at any foreign port or place; in which list he shall designate particularly the age, sex, and occupation of the passengers respectively, the part of the vessel occupied by each during the voyage, the country to which they severally belong, and that of which it is their intention to become inhabitants; and shall further set forth whether any and what number have died on the voyage; such list shall be sworn to by the master, in the same manner as directed by law in relation to the manifest of the cargo; and the refusal or neglect of the master to comply with the provisions of this section, or any part thereof, shall incur the same penalties, disabilities, and forfeitures as are provided for a refusal or neglect to report and deliver a manifest of the cargo. [See §§ 2774, 2807-2815.] Copies to be returned to Secre SEC. 4267. Every collector of the customs to whom such lists of passengers shall be delivered, shall quarter-yearly tary of State. return copies thereof to the Secretary of State. SEC. 4268. In case there shall have occurred on board any vessel arriving at any port or place within the United States or its Territories, any death among the passengers, other than cabin passengers, the master, or owner, or consignee of such vessel shall, within twenty-four hours after the time within which the report and list of passengers is required to be delivered to the collector of the customs, pay to the collector the sum of ten dollars for each and every passenger above the age of eight years, who shall have died on the voyage by natural disease. The collector shall pay the money thus received, at such times and in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury, by general rules, shall direct, to any board or commission appointed by and acting under the authority of the State within which the port where such vessel arrived is situated, for the care and protection of sick, indigent, or destitute emigrants, to be applied to the objects of their appointment; and if there be more than one board or commission who shall claim such payment, the Secretary of the Treasury shall determine which is entitled to receive the same, and his decision in the premises shall be final and without appeal; but such payment shall in no case be awarded or made to any board, or commission, or association, formed for the protection or advancement of any particular class Ibid., s. 13. Payment incase of death of pas senger. 3 March, 1855, c. 213, s. 14, v. 10, p. 719. Penalty for refusal to pay. 3 March, 1855, c. 720. of emigrants, or emigrants of any particular nation or creed. SEC. 4269. Every master, owner, or consignee of any vessel, who refuses or neglects to pay to the collector any 213, s. 14, v. 10, p. sum of money required, within the time prescribed by the preceding section, shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars, in addition to such sum of ten dollars, for each passenger upon whose death the same has become paya'ble, to be recovered by the United States in any circuit or district court of the United States where such vessel may arrive, or such master, owner, or consignee may reside; and the money shall be disposed of in the same manner as is directed with respect to the sums required to be paid to the collector of customs. SEC. 4270. The amount of the several penalties imposed by the foregoing provisions regulating the carriage of passengers in merchant-vessels shall be liens on the vessel violating those provisions, and such vessels shall be libeled therefor in any circuit or district court of the United States where such vessel shall arrive. [See § 629.] SEC. 4271. Any vessel which may be employed by the American Colonization Society, or the colonization society of any State, to transport, and which shall actually transport, from any port of the United States to any colony on the west coast of Africa, colored emigrants, to reside there, shall be subject to the operation of the foregoing provisions regulating the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels. SEC. 4272. The collector of the customs shall examine each emigrant-vessel, on its arrival at his port, and ascertain and report to the Secretary of the Treasury the time of sailing, the length of the voyage, the ventilation, the number of passengers, their space on board, their food, the native country of the emigrants, the number of deaths, the age and sex of those who died during the voyage; together with his opinion of the cause of the mortality, if any, on board, and, if none, what precautionary measures, arrangements, or habits, are supposed to have had any, and what, agency in causing the exemption. SEC. 4273. Informers shall be entitled to one-half of any penalty or fine collected under the provisions relating to the transportation of passengers in vessels to or from any foreign port or place other than foreign contiguous country, upon their information. |