Deportation of Certain Alien Seamen: Hearings...on S.868...

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Page 2 - The owner, charterer, agent, consignee, or master of any vessel arriving in the United States from any place outside thereof who fails to detain on board any alien seaman employed on such vessel until the immigration officer in charge at the port of arrival has inspected such seaman...
Page 3 - No vessel shall be granted clearance pending the determination of the liability to the payment of such fine, or while the fine remains unpaid, except that clearance may be granted prior to the determination of such question upon the deposit of a sum sufficient to cover such fine, or of a bond with sufficient surety to secure the payment thereof approved by the collector of customs.
Page 2 - ... collector of customs of the customs district in which the port of arrival is located the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every violation of the provisions of this section...
Page 78 - That in the judgment of Congress articles in treaties and conventions of the "United States, in so far as they provide for the arrest and imprisonment of officers and seamen deserting or charged, with desertion from merchant vessels of the United States in foreign countries, and...
Page 60 - An Act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes,
Page 51 - To consider all questions affix-ting the interests of the shipping trade and other trades connected therewith and to do all such things as may seem expedient with a view to the promotion of such interests.
Page 2 - That any person, including the owner, agent, consignee, or master of any vessel arriving in the United States from any foreign port or place, who shall knowingly sign on the ship's articles, or bring to the United States as one of the crew of such vessel, any alien, with intent to permit such alien to land in the United States in violation of...
Page 60 - Every master of a vessel in the foreign trade may engage any seaman at any port out of the United States, in the manner provided by law, to serve for one or more round trips from and to the port of departure, or for a definite time, whatever the destination; and the master of a vessel clearing from a port of the United States with one or more seamen engaged in a foreign port as herein provided shall not be required to reship in a port of the United States the seamen so engaged...
Page 3 - ... and no vessel shall be granted clearance pending the determination of the question of the liability to the payment of such fine...
Page 62 - America, submits the following to all men of seafaring experience, ashore or afloat : The Nation that proclaimed your freedom now needs your services. America is at war. Our troops are being transported over the seas. Munitions and supplies are being shipped in ever-increasing quantities to our armies in Europe. The bases are the ports of America. The battle fields are in Europe.

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