United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 28
Chap. XXVIII.—An Act in addition to the act entituled “An act supplementary to the act concerning Consuls and Vice Consuls,” and for the further protection of American seamen.
Act of April 14, 1792, ch. 24.
Act of Feb. 28, 1803, ch. 9.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 40.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where distressed mariners and seamen of the United States have been transported from foreign ports where there was no consul, vice consul, commercial agent, or vice commercial agent of the United States, to ports of the United States; and in all cases where they shall hereafter be so transported, there shall be allowed to the master or owner of each vessel, in which they shall or may have been transported, such reasonable compensation, in addition to the allowance now fixed by law, as shall be deemed equitable by the comptroller of the treasury.
Approved, February 28, 1811.