Volume 50
Public Law 75–237
To provide that graduates of approved school ships may be rated as able seamen upon graduation, and for other purposes.
Approved May 22, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide that graduates of approved school ships may be rated as able seamen upon graduation, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (a)
Merchant seamen.
Graduates of approved school ships rated as able seamen upon graduation.
of section 13 of the Act entitled “An Act to promote the welfare of American seamen in the merchant marine of the United States; to abolish arrest and imprisonment as a penalty for desertion and to secure the abrogation of treaty provisions in relation thereto; and to promote safety at sea”, approved March 4, 1915, as amended, is amended by striking out “after twelve months’ service at sea after graduation” and inserting in lieu thereof “upon graduation in good standing from said school ships”.
Sec. 2.
Subsection (e) of such section 13, as amended,
Engine department.
46 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 672 (e).
is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: “or proof that he is a graduate of a school ship approved by and conducted under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce”.
Approved, May 22, 1937.