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3 Presidential Executive Orders [1] (1911-1915)

handle is hein.presidents/prsexcuo0003 and id is 1 raw text is: Executive rber Relating to the Arrest and Discharge of Deserting Seamen. By virtue of the Authority vested in me, I hereby establish the fol- lowing Order for the Canal Zone: j.--If any seaman who shall have signed a contract to perform a voy- age shallm n sen fo all American vessel at any port or place in the Canal Zone, without leave of the master, or officer commanding in the absence of the master, such master or the Collector of Revenues or his deputy acting as the Shipping Commissioner may makcimipliiit-against such absent seamairtothe judge of any Circuit Court of the Canal Zone, WQho thereupon shall issue his warrant against the seaman complained of in order that'he may be brought before him to answer the complaint; and, after a hearing before said judge, if it shall appear that the seaman had signcd a contract to perform a voyage on the vessel and that the voy4^ agreed for is not finished or altered, or that the contract was not otherwise dissolved, and that such seaman has deserted the vessel, or absented -imself therefrom without leave, the judge shall commit him to jail to remain there until the vessel shall be ready to proceed on her voyage, or until the master shall require his discharge, and then to be delivered to the master, the latter paying all the costs of such commitment which may be deducted by him from the wages due to such seaman. 2.-If it shall appear on the hearing hereinbefore provided for that the voyage of the vessel is continued contrary to agreement, or that the vessel is-badly provisioned, or unsealworthy, or that the officers of the ship- have been guilty of cruel .treatment toward the seaman, he shallTe dis- charged and the judge shall require the master to pay to such seaman one month's wages over and above the wages due at the time of discharge, and. to provide him with adequate employment on board some other vessel, or provide him with a passage on board some other vessel bound to the port from which he was originally shipped, or to the most convenient port of entry in the United States, or to a pert agreed to by the seaman, and the seaman shall have a lien on the vessel to compel compliance with the order of the judge, who shall have authority to issue all writs necessary to enforce his jurisdiction; and the judge shall cause to be entered upon the crew list and shipping articles and official log the cause of'discharge and the particulars in which the cruel or unusual treatment consisted, and shall cause his name to be subscribed thereto officially, and shall cause the entry made in the official log to be read to the master. ' The latter's reply thereto, if any, shall likewise be caused to be entered and subscribed in the sanie manner. 3.-If any consul or vice-consul of any foreign government, who is commissioned to the government of the Republic of Panama and is recog- nized by the United States in the Canal Zone, such foreign government having a treaty with the United States, or with the Republic..of Panama, Digitized from Best Copy Available

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