Public Law 78–162

That section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act making it a misdemeanor to stow away on vessels and providing punishment therefor”, approved June 11, 1940 (54 Stat. 30G; U. S. C., title 18, sec. 469), be, and it hereby is, amended to read as follows:

“That any person, without the consent of the owner, charterer, or master of any vessel and with intent to obtain, without paying therefor, transportation on such vessel to any place, within or without the United States, who shall board, enter, or secrete himself aboard such vessel, and shall be thereon at the time of departure of said vessel from a port, harbor, wharf, or other place within the jurisdiction of the United States, including (he Canal Zone, or who, with such intent, having boarded, entered, or secreted himself aboard such vessel in any place within or without the jurisdiction of the United States, shall remain aboard any such vessel after such vessel has left such place and who shall be thereon at any place within the jurisdiction of the United States, including the Canal Zone, shall

Penalty

be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.”