22 U.S.C. § 4207 — Profits from dealings with discharged seamen; prohibition
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This section prohibits consular officers and their subordinates from profiting from handling wages, relief money, or services for discharged seamen. It preserves a limited exception for reasonable payment for transportation on a vessel in which the officer has an interest.
A consular officer or a person working under one may not charge or receive, directly or indirectly, a commission or other compensation for receiving or paying wages or extra wages owed to a seaman discharged in a foreign country, or for money advanced to a seaman seeking help from a consulate. They also may not have a direct or indirect interest in profit from clothing, boarding, supplying, or sending such a seaman home. This profit ban does not prevent an officer who owns or otherwise has an interest in a United States vessel from transporting the seaman on that vessel or receiving or sharing in a reasonable transportation allowance authorized by law.
No consular officer, nor any person under any consular officer shall make any charge or receive, directly or indirectly, any compensation, by way of commission or otherwise, for receiving or disbursing the wages or extra wages to which any seaman or mariner is entitled who is discharged in any foreign country, or for any money advanced to any such seaman or mariner who seeks relief from any consulate; nor shall any consular officer, or any person under any consular officer, be interested, directly or indirectly, in any profit derived from clothing, boarding or otherwise supplying or sending home any such seaman or mariner. Such prohibition as to profit, however, shall not be construed to relieve or prevent any such officer who is the owner of or otherwise interested in any vessel of the United States from transporting in such vessel any such seaman or mariner, or from receiving or being interested in such reasonable allowance as may be made for such transportation by law.
Source credit: (R.S. § 1719; Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, § 3, 34 Stat. 100.)
- 1906Enacted · Act of Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366 · 34 Stat. 100
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