Volume 13
Public Law 38–LXX
to provide for the Collection of Hospital Dues from Vessels of the United States sold or transferred in foreign Ports or Waters.
Approved April 29, 1864
Statutory text
An Act
to provide for the Collection of Hospital Dues from Vessels of the United States sold or transferred in foreign Ports or Waters.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That in case of the sale or
Hospital titles to be collected from United States vessels sold in foreign ports.
transfer of any vessel of the United States in a foreign port or water, the consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, of the United States within whose consulate or district such sale or transfer shall have been made, or in whose hands the papers of such vessel shall be, be and he is hereby authorized and required to collect of the master or agent of such vessel, all moneys that shall have become due to the United States under and by virtue of the act entitled “An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen,” approved July sixteenth, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, and shall remain unpaid at the time
1798, ch. 77.
Vol. i. p. 603.
of such sale or transfer; and that the said consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, (as the case may be,) be, and he is hereby, instructed and required to retain possession of the papers of such vessel until such money shall have been paid as herein provided; and in default of which, such sale or transfer shall be void, excepting as against the vendor: Provided, That this act shall not take effect until the expiration
When act takes effect.
of sixty days from and after its passage.
Approved, .