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SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS . SEss. II . CHs . 227, 228. 1930 . for longer voyages, as may be agreed between the master and the consular officer, when transportation is by a sailing vessel; and the amoun t agreed upon between the c onsular offic er and the ma ster of the vesse l in ea ch indi vidual case n ot in e xcess of the lowest passen ger rate of such vessel and not in excess of 2 cents per mile shall in certificate for traps • each case constitu te the lawful rate for tran sportation on steam portation .

vessels; and said consular officer shall issue certificates for suc h transportation, which certificates shall be assignable for collection . by aalty for refusal Every such master who refuses to receive and transport such seamen on the request or order of such consular officer shall be liable to the United States in a penalty of $100 for each seaman so refused . The certificate of any such consular officer, given under his hand and official seal, shall be presumptive evidence of such refusal in any court of law havin g jurisdiction for the reco very of the p enalty . ber, eetc. Limitationetc. ion on num- No master of any vessel shall, however, be obliged to take a greater number than one man to every one hundred tons burden of the vessel on any one voyage or to take any seaman having a contagious disease . Ad dit io nal allow- "Reasonable compensation, in addition to the allowances provided ante authorized . x . s., sec. 1752, p. herein, or any allowance now fixed by law, or by regulations now or 311 .

hereafter established in accordance with section 1752 of the Revised u. S. C., p.651. Statutes of the United States, may be paid from general appropria- tio ns for the r elief and p rotect ion of Amer ican se aman, when authorized by the Secretary of State, in the following cases

For disability or ill- pees. " First . If any such destitute seaman is so disabled or ill as to be unable to perform duty, the consular officer shall so certify in the certificate of transportation, and such additional compensation shall Transportation from be paid as the Secretary of State shall deem equitable and proper . foreign ports with no " Second . Whe never distres sed or destitu te seamen of the United consul, etc . States are transported from foreign ports where there is no consular officer of the United S tates, or fro m points on t he high seas, to ports of the United States, or from such foreign ports or points on the high seas to a port accessible to a consular officer of the United States who is authorized to assume responsibility on behalf of the Government of the United States for the further relief and repatria- tion of such seamen, there shall be allowed to the master or owner of each v essel in which they are tra nsported such reasonable co m- pensation as shall be deemed equitable by the Secretary of State ." Approved, May 7, 1930 . May S, 1930.

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eat United States of America in Congress assembled, That for and in Playground, etc .

consideration of the conveyance to the United States of fee-simple title of the follow ing lan d, to w it of Can land.,

co nsolida- d., for a accepted Part of a tract of land taxed as parcel 134/36, described as follows tion of .

Beg inning for th e same at the intersection of the south line of Description of. Randolph Str eet (ninety f eet wide) wit h the northeas terly line of parcel 134/36 and running thence with said northeasterly line south twenty-five de grees twenty minutes twenty seconds east ninety-six and forty-eight one-hundredths feet to the most easterly corner of said parcel; thence with the northwesterly line of Bunker Hill Road south forty-one degrees west one hundred and thirty-three and fifty- four one-hundredths feet to the southeast corner of said parcel