196.6/1070
Senate Bill No. 2945, 70th Congress, First Session 18
A Bill relating to the payment of advance wages and allotments in respect of seamen on foreign vessels, and making further provision for carrying out the purposes of the Seamen’s Act, approved March 4, 1915.19
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first paragraph of paragraph (e) of section 10 of the Act entitled “An Act to remove certain burdens on the American Merchant Marine and encourage [Page 831] the American foreign-carrying trade, and for other purposes,” approved June 26, 1884, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:
“(e) This section shall apply to payments of advance wages and allotments, in respect of seamen on foreign vessels, whether made within or without the United States or territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof, as well as to payments of advance wages and allotments in respect of seamen upon vessels of the United States; except that no criminal penalty under this section shall be imposed for a violation of this section in respect of a seaman upon a foreign vessel if such violation occurs outside the United States and territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof. The courts of the United States shall be open to seamen for suits for payment of wages, irrespective of whether the wages were earned upon a vessel of the United States or a foreign vessel, or within or without the United States or territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and in any such suit the provisions of this section shall be applicable. Any master, owner, consignee, or agent of any foreign vessel who violates the provisions of this section within the United States or territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof shall be liable to the same penalty to which the master, owner, or agent of a vessel of the United States would be liable for a similar violation.”