the membership of the central committee appointed by him. And any vacancy that may occur in the six members of the central committee herein provided to be appointed by the incorporators or in the six to be appointed by the representatives of the State societies shall be filled by temporary appointments to be made by the remaining members of the six in which the vacancy or vacancies may occur, such appointees to serve until the next annual meeting. The central committee shall have power to appoint from its own members an executive committee of seven persons, five of whom shall be a quorum, who, when the central committee is not in session, shall have and exercise all the powers of the central committee. The Secretary of War shall within thirty days after the passage of this Act call a meeting at a time and place to be designated by him in the city of Washington of the incorporators hereunder, giving at least thirty days' notice thereof in one or more newspapers, and the annual meeting of said incorporators, their associates and successors, shall thereafter be held in said city on Wednesday preceding the second Thursday in the month of December in each and every year. Fifteen members shall constitute a quorum at any annual or special meeting. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed at any meeting of the incorporators, annual or special, nor at any meeting of State or Territorial societies organized under the provisions of this charter. (33 Stat. 601. 37 Stat. 647.) This section, as originally enacted, required the annual meeting to be held "on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in December." It was amended so that the annual meeting shall be held as set forth here, by Act Dec. 10, 1912, c. 1, § 1, last cited above. A further clause of the original section, next following the provision so amended, requiring the first annual meeting to be held in December, 1905, is omitted here, as temporary merely. § 7702. (Act Jan. 5, 1905, c. 23, § 6.) Reports. The said American National Red Cross shall on the first day of January of each year make and transmit to the Secretary of War a report of its proceedings for the preceding year, including a full, complete, and itemized report of receipts and expenditures of whatever kind, which report shall be duly audited by the War Department, and a copy of said report shall be transmitted to Congress by the War Department. (33 Stat. 602.) § 7703. (Act Jan. 5, 1905, c. 23, § 7.) Right to repeal or amend act. Congress shall have the right to repeal, alter, or amend this Act at any time. (33 Stat. 602.) § 7704. (Act Jan. 5, 1905, c. 23, § 8, as amended, Act June 23, 1910, c. 372, § 2.) Endowment fund of corporation; investment. The endowment fund of the American National Red Cross shall be kept and invested under the management and control of a board of nine trustees, who shall be elected from time to time by the incorporators and their successors under such regulations regarding terms and tenure of office, accountability, and expense as said incorporators and successors shall prescribe. (36 Stat. 604.) This section was added to Act Jan. 5, 1905, c. 23, by amendment thereof by Act June 23, 1910, c. 372, § 2, cited above. § 7705. (Act April 24, 1912, c. 90, § 1.) Aid of land and naval forces in time of war. Whenever in time of war, or when war is imminent, the President may deem the cooperation and use of the American National Red Cross with the sanitary services of the land and naval forces to be necessary, he is authorized to accept the assistance tendered by the said Red Cross and to employ the same under the sanitary services of the Army and Navy in conformity with such rules and regulations as he may prescribe. (37 Stat. 90.) This section and the section next following were an act entitled "An act to provide for the use of the American National Red Cross in aid of the land and naval forces in time of actual or threatened war." § 7706. (Act April 24, 1912, c. 90, § 2.) Transportation and subsistence. When the Red Cross cooperation and assistance with the land. and naval forces in time of war or threatened hostilities shall have been accepted by the President, the personnel entering upon the duty specified in section one of this Act shall, while proceeding to their place of duty, while serving thereat, and while returning therefrom, be transported and subsisted at the cost and charge of the United States as civilian employees employed with the said forces, and the Red Cross supplies that may be tendered as a gift and accepted for use in the sanitary service shall be transported at the cost and charge of the United States. (37 Stat. 91.) Section 1 of this act, mentioned in this section, is set forth ante, § 7705. (3429) 8. Regulations for the suppression of piracy. 9. Summary trials for certain offenses against navigation laws... Sec. 7707 7789 7811 7825 7833 7997 8036 8039 8046 Sec. CHAPTER ONE Registry and Recording 7707. What are vessels of the United States; officers to be citizens; exceptions. 7708. Officers' licenses; renewal, suspension, or revocation; war service; exemption from and payment for. 7709. Vessels entitled to registry; coastwise trade by foreign-built registered vessels prohibited; duty on foreign yachts; free admission of ship-building materials etc.; ocean mail service contracts. 7710. Registry of foreign-built vessels owned in part by citizens; conditions. 7711. Record of transfer to citizens. 7712. Inspection and measurement. 7713. Taking and use of vessels as cruisers or transports; payment. 7714. American vessel taking foreign flag. 7715. Vessels owned by corporations. 7716. New registry upon death, etc., of officer of corporation. 7717. Oath of officer of corporation or managing owner in his agent. 7718. Nationalization of vessels in Alas ka. 7719. Vessels, where registered. 7720. Oath for registry by owner. 7721. Forfeiture for false swearing. Sec. 7722. Oath by master. 7723. Certificate of registry to be sur rendered on loss, etc., of vessel, or purchase by foreigner; penalty. 7724. Carpenter's certificate. 7725. Measurement of vessel. 7726. Certificate of measurement. 7727. Mode of measurement. 7728. No measurement of cabins or state-rooms for tonnage. 7729. Rules of measurement limited to what vessels. 7730. Tonnage. 7731. Remeasurements. 7732. Space for crew; to what vessels provisions of act applicable. 7733. Regulations by Commissioner of Navigation. 7734. Space for crew on seagoing vessels; exceptions. 7735. Measurement of foreign vessels; certificates, when accepted. 7736. Form of register. 7737. Variation from form. 7738. Blank certificates of registry. 7739. Issuing certificates of registry. 7740. Registry upon purchase of vessel. 7741. Surrender of certificate granted to purchaser. 7742. Registry by agent. 7743. Surrender of certificate granted to agent. Sec. 7744. Forfeiture for false swearing by agent. 7745. Registry upon sale under legal process. 7746. Sale to foreigners. 7747. Registry upon sale abroad. 7748. Oath upon loss of register. 7749. Surrender of certificate obtained upon loss of original. 7750. Penalty for not obtaining new registry. 7751. New registry upon sale or alteration of vessel. 7752. Change of master. 7753. Failure to report sale to foreigners. 7754. Oath upon entry. 7755. Transmission of surrendered certificate to Treasury. 7756. Numbering registers. 7757. Numbers for vessels; penalty. 7758. Names and home ports of vessels to be marked on bow and stern. 7759. "Port" defined. 7760. Draft of vessels to be marked on stem and stern posts. 7761. Private signals, etc., of vessels, and registry thereof. 7762. Change of name of registered vessel. 7763. Change of name of vessel permitted. 7764. Regulations for change of name. 7765. Oath to obtain record of vessel owned by foreigner. 7766. Measurement for record. 7767. Certificate of record. 7768. Change of master or name of recorded vessel. 7769. Production of certificate upon en try. 7770. Fees of collector. 7771. Fees of surveyors. Sec. 7772. Regulation of fees for readmeasurement. 7773. Penalty for misconduct by offi cers. 7774. Penalty for neglect by officers. 7775. Penalty for fraudulent registry. 7776. Sea-letters, to what vessels issued. 7777. Making or using forged sea-letters, etc. 7778. Conveyance of vessels; lien by bottomry. 7779. Record of bills of sale, mortgages, etc.; acknowledgments. 7780. Index of records. 7781. Certified copies of records. 7782. Interests to be named in bills of sale. 7783. Maritime lien on vessel for repairs, supplies, etc., to be enforced in rem, without allegation or proof that credit was given to vessel. 7784. Persons presumed to have authority to procure repairs, supplies, etc., for vessel. 7785. Officers and agents appointed by charterer, etc., included with persons specified in preceding section; no lien when want of authority to bind vessel was known to furnisher of repairs, supplies, etc. 7786. Waiver of right to lien; act not to affect rules of law as to other rights and remedies. 7787. State statutes conferring liens on vessels, to be enforced by proceedings in rem, for repairs, supplies, etc., superseded. 7788. Unrigged wooden vessels; notation of rebuilding on list of merchant vessels. § 7707. (R. S. § 4131, as amended, Act June 26, 1884, c. 121, § 1, and Act May 28, 1896, c. 255, §§ 1, 3.) What are vessels of the United States; officers to be citizens; exceptions. Vessels registered pursuant to law and no others, except such as shall be duly qualified according to law for carrying on the coasting. or fishing trade, shall be deemed vessels of the United States, and entitled to the benefits and privileges appertaining to such vessels; but no such vessel shall enjoy such benefits and privileges longer than it shall continue to be wholly owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States or a corporation created under the laws of any of the States thereof, and be commanded by a citizen of the United States. And all the officers of vessels of the United States who shall have charge of a watch, including pilots, shall in all cases be citizens of the United States. The word "officers" shall include the chief engineer and each assistant engineer in charge of a watch on vessels propelled wholly or in part by steam; and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, no person shall be qualified to hold a license as a commander or watch officer of a merchant vessel of the United States who is not a native-born citizen, or whose naturalization as a citizen shall not have been fully completed. In cases where on a foreign voyage, or on a voyage from an Atlantic to a Pacific port of the United States, any such vessel is for any reason deprived of the services of an officer below the grade of master, his place, or a vacancy caused by the promotion of another officer to such place, may be supplied by a person not a citizen of the United States until the first return of such vessel to its home port; and such vessel shall not be liable to any penalty or penal tax for such employment of an alien officer. Act Dec. 31, 1792, c. 1, § 1, 1 Stat. 287. Act June 26, 1884, c. 121, § 1, 23 Stat. 53. Act May 28, 1896, c. 255, §§ 1, 3, 29 Stat. 188, 189. This section, as originally enacted, was as follows: "Vessels registered pursuant to law, and no others, except such as shall be duly qualified, according to law, for carrying on the coasting trade and fisheries, or one of them, shall be deemed vessels of the United States, and entitled to the benefits and privileges appertaining to such vessels; but they shall not enjoy the same longer than they shall continue to be wholly owned by citizens and to be commanded by a citizen of the United States. And officers of vessels of the United States shall in all cases be citizens of the United States." It was amended by the Shipping Act of June 26, 1884, c. 121, § 1, cited above by changing the last clause to read as follows: "All the officers of vessels of the United States shall be citizens of the United States, except that in cases where, on a foreign voyage, or on a voyage from an Atlantic to a Pacific port of the United States, any such vessel is for any reason deprived of the services of an officer below the grade of master, his place, or a vacancy caused by the promotion of another officer to such place, may be supplied by a person not a citizen of the United States until the first return of such vessel to its home port; and such vessel shall not be liable to any penalty or penal tax for such employment of an alien officer." It was again amended, by Act May 28, 1896, c. 255, § 1, last cited above, to read as set forth here, with the exception of the last sentence. Section 3 of said amendatory Act May 28, 1896, c. 255, saved from its repeal the amendment added by said Act June 26, 1884, c. 121, set forth here as the last sentence of the section. Aliens who had declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, and who had had a permanent residence in the United States for at least six months immediately prior to the granting of a license, were entitled to be licensed, as if already naturalized, to serve as engineers or pilots upon any steam-vessel, subject to inspection under the provisions of Act Feb. 28, 1871, c. 100, which were incorporated into the Revised Statutes under Title LII, "Regulation of Steam-Vessels," by Act April 17, 1874, c. 107, 18 Stat. 30. Said act was superseded by this section, as amended by Act May 28, 1896, c. 255, § 1, to read as set forth here. § 7708. (Act May 28, 1896, c. 255, § 2.) Officers' licenses; renewal, suspension, or revocation; war service; exemption from and payment for. That all licenses issued to such officers shall be for a term of five years, but the holder of a license may have the same renewed for another five years at any time before its expiration: Provided, however, That any officer holding a license, and who is engaged in |