The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and ResponsibilitiesRiesenberg, Felix
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The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities
Riesenberg, Felix
Merchant marine -- United States; Navigation; Sailors
Insane patients of said [marine hospital] service shall be admitted into
the Government Hospital for the Insane upon the order of the Secretary
of the Treasury, and shall be cared for therein until cured or until
removed by the same authority; and the charge for each such patient
shall not exceed four dollars and fifty cents a week, which charge shall
be paid out of the marine-hospital fund. (Mar. 3, 1875; sec. 5.)
The privilege of admission to and temporary treatment in the marine
hospitals under the control of the Government of the United States be,
and is hereby, extended to the keepers and crews of the Life-Saving
Service under the same rules and regulations as those governing sailors
and seamen, and for the purposes of this Act members of the Life-Saving
Service shall be received in said hospitals and treated therein, and at
the dispensaries thereof, as are seamen of American registered vessels;
but this Act shall not be so construed as to compel the establishment of
hospitals or dispensaries for the benefit of said keepers and crews, nor
as establishing a home for the same when permanently disabled. (Aug. 4,
1894.)
Jurisdiction over American seamen in foreign ports and foreign seamen in
American ports.
Whenever it is stipulated by treaty or convention between the United
States and any foreign nation that the consul-general, consuls,
vice-consuls, or consular or commercial agents of each nation, shall
have exclusive jurisdiction of controversies, difficulties, or disorders
arising at sea or in the waters or ports of the other nation, between
the master or officers and any of the crew, or between any of the crew
themselves, of any vessel belonging to the nation represented by such
consular officer, such stipulations shall be executed and enforced
within the jurisdiction of the United States as hereinafter declared.
But before this section shall take effect as to the vessels of any
particular nation having such treaty with the United States, the
President shall be satisfied that similar provisions have been made for
the execution of such treaty by the other contracting party, and shall
issue his proclamation to that effect, declaring this section to be in
force as to such nation. (R. S., 4079.)
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