deferting at place, how to be pro 42 Mariner ter, or officer commanding in the abfence of any port or the mafter, it fhall be lawful for any juftice of peace within the United States (upon the comceeded plaint of the mafter) to iffue his warrant to gain and apprehend fuch deferter, and bring him before punished. fuch juftice; and if it shall then appear by due 2. Every flip or veffel outward with a me dicine sheft; proof that he has figned a contract within the intent and meaning of this act, and that the voyage agreed for is not finifhed, altered, or the contract otherwife diffolved, and that fuch feaman or mariner has deferted the fhip or veffel, or abfented himself without leave, the faid juftice fhall commit him to the houfe of correction or common gaol of the city, town or place, there to remain until the faid fhip or veffel fhall be ready to proceed on her voyage, or till the master fhall require his difcharge, and then to be delivered to the faid mafter, he paying all the coft of fuch commitment, and deducting the fame out of the wages due to fuch feaman or mariner. Sec. 8. And be it ena led, That every fhip or veffel belonging to a citizen or citizens of the bound tobe United States, of the burthen of one hundred furnished and fifty tons or upwards, navigated by ten or more perfons in the whole, and bound on a voyage without the limits of the United States, fhall be provided with a cheft of medicines, put up by fome apothecary of known reputation, and accompanied by directions for adminiftering the fame; and the faid medicines fhall be examined by the fame or fome other apothecary, once at leaft in every year, and fupplied with fresh medicines in the place of fuch as fhall have been used or fpoiled; penalty on and in default of having fuch medicine-cheft the matter fo provided, and kept fit for ufe, the master or commander of fuch fhip or vessel shall pro for default. vide and pay for all fuch advice, medicine, or attendance of phyficians, as any of the crew fhall ftand in need of in cafe of fickncis at every port or place where the fhip or veffel may touch or trade at during the voyage, without any deduction from the wages of fuch fick feaman or mariner. bound across the be laid in. Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That every fhip ships, &c. or veffel, belonging as aforefaid, bound on a voyage across the Atlantic ocean, fhall, at Atlantic, the time of leaving the laft port from whence wit fupply of profhe fails, have on board, well fecured under vilions and deck, at leaft fixty gallons of water, one hun- Waterfall dred pounds of falted flefh meat, and one hundred pounds of wholesome ship-bread, for every perfon on board fuch fhip or veffel, over and befides fuch other provifions, flores and live-stock as fhall by the mafter or pallengers be put on board, and in like proportion for fhorter or longer voyages; and in cafe the crew of any fhip or veffel, which fhall not have Penalty for been fo provided, fhall be put upon fhort al- failure. lowance in water, flesh or bread, during the voyage, the mafter or owner of fuch fhip or veffel fhall pay to each of the crew, one day's wages beyond the wages agreed on for every day they fhall be fo put to fhort allowance, to be recovered in the fame manner as their ftipulated wages. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, APPROVED, July the twentieth, 1790: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XXX. An Act impofing Duties on the Tonnage of Ships Section 1. B' or Veffels. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That upon all fhips or veffels which after the first day of September next, fhall be entered in the United States from any foreign port or place, there fhall be paid the feveral and refpective duties following, that is to fay: On on this or fhips or veffels of the United States, at the vellels of rate of fix cents per ton; on fhips or veffels built within the United States after the twenon thofe of tieth day of July laft, but belonging wholly or foreigners; in part to fubjects of foreign powers, at the on all others rate of thirty cents per ton: on other fhips or veffels at the rate of fifty cents per ton. U. states; On hips or veffels of U. States, trading be tween dif trict and diftrist; Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforefaid duty of fix cents per ton, fhall be alfo paid upon every fhip or veifel of the United States which after the faid firft day of September next, fhall be entered in a diftrict in one ftate from a district in another ftate, other than an adjoining ftate on the fea coaft or on a navigable river, having on board goods, wares, and merchandize taken in one ftate to be delivered in another ftate: Provided, That it fhall not be paid on any fhip or veffel having a licenfe to trade between the different diftricts of the United States, or to carry on the bank or whale fifheries whilft employed therein, more than once a year: Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That upon every fhip or veffel not of the United States, which after the said first day of Sep veffels not tember next, fhall be entered in one district On fhips or from another district, having on board goods, of U.States, wares and merchandize taken in, in one dif- trading be trict to be delivered in another diftrict, there trict & diffhall be paid at the rate of fifty cents per trict. ton. tween dif Payment of tofore ex fels of the And whereas it is declared by the twentythird section of the act, intituled, " An act foreign tonfor registering and clearing veffels, regula- nage here ting the coafting trade, and for other purpofes," acted on "That if any veffel of the burthen of twenty certain vef tons or upwards, not having a certificate of U. States, registry or inrollment, and a licenfe, fhall be employed in coafting found trading between different diftricts, or trade and be employed in the bank or whale fifheries, fisheries, every fuch fhip or veffel fhall be fubject to the fame tonnage and fees as foreign fhips or veffels," which, from the impracticability in fome cafes of obtaining licenfes in due feafon, and from misapprehenfion in others, has operated to the prejudice of individuals; and it being proper that relief fhould be granted in cafes where the ftrict operation of new laws may have occafioned hardship and inconve nience: for, and Sec. 4. Be it therefore further enacted, That reftitution in all cafes in which the faid foreign duty to be made fhall have been heretofore paid on fhips or not, deveffels of the United States, whether register- mandable ed at the time of payment or afterwards, reftitution thereof fhall be made, and that no fuch foreign duty fhall hereafter be deman ded on the said ships or veffels. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the act, intituled, " An act impofing duties on tonnage," fhall, after the faid first day of September next be repealed, and fhall thenceforth VOL. I. T in future. Repeal of former a ceafe to operate, except as to the collection of the duties which fhall have accrued prior to the faid repeal, for which purpose the said act fhall continue in force. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, APPROVED, July the twentieth, 1790: Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XXXI. 'An Act providing for holding a Treaty or Trea ties to establish Peace with certain Indian Tribes. (EXPIRED.) CHAPTER XXXII. An Act to amend the Act for the Establishment and Support of Light-Houfes, Beacons, Buoys, and public Piers. (EXPIRED.) |