United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/8th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 28
Chap. XXVIII.—An Act to amend the act, intituled “An act for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchants’ service.”
Act of June 20, 1790, ch. 29.
Regulations of the 8th section of the act referred to, so far as that section related to a medicine chest for a vessel of 150 tons, extended to smaller vessels, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the provisions, regulations, and penalties which are contained in the eighth section of the act, intituled “An act for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchants’ service,” so far as relates to a chest of medicines to be provided for vessels of one hundred and fifty tons burthen and upwards, shall be extended to all merchant vessels of the burthen of seventy-five tons, or upwards, navigated with six persons or more, in the whole, and bound from the United States to any port or ports in the West Indies.
Approved, March 2, 1805.