The State of Maine’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 5 district ·

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1. ““Statutes have no extraterritorial force. The shipment of seamen in a foreign port, and the payment either of advance wages or of hills previously incurred, as in this case, as an advance of wages, are acts done and completed wholly upon foreign soil; and therefore wholly heyond the jurisdiction of this country. If American vessels he treated as a part of the territory of the United States, and within its jurisdiction, though in foreign ports, still, acts like the present, that are not done upon shipboard, hut, as I have said, are completed upon land prior to the seaman’s coming aboard, and as a means of procuring them to do so, would not he done within the territorial jurisdiction of this country. Every presumption is against the supposition that congress had any intention to legislate in reference to acts done and completed wholly heyond its jurisdiction. * * * The general purimse of this act is indicated by its title. Its various provisions, as well as the well-known circumstances which led to its passage, show that it was passed in order to correct certain practices and to reform certain abuses to which seamen were subject in the ports of this country. * * * The final clause of section 10, which declares that ‘this section shall apply as well to foreign vessels as to vessels of the United States’, and that in case of violation a clearance shall he refused them, furnishes a specific indication that congress did not in this section refer to the shipment of seamen in foreign”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. The Kestor

2. “1884 It is hereby made unlawful to pay any seaman wages before leaving the port at which he may he engaged, in advance of the time when he has actually earned the same, or to pay such advance to any other person, or to pay any remuneration (to one not an-thorized by act of Congress) for shipment of seamen. Any person paying advance wages, or such remuneration shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by fine and (at option of the court) im-prisomnent. . The payment of such advance wages, or remuneration, shall in no case absolve the vessel from full payment of wages after they shall have been earned, and be no defense to a libel for recovery of wages. This section shall apply as well to foreign vessels as to vessels of the United States, and any foreign vessel violating- the same shall be refused a clearance. 1915 It is hereby made unlawful to pay any seaman wages in advance of the time when he has actually earned the same, or to make any order or note therefor to any other person or to pay any person for the shipment of seamen when payment Is deducted or to be deducted from a seaman’s wages, Any person violating the foregoing shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by fine, and (at option of the court) imprisonment, The payment of such advance wages or allotment shall in no case absolve the vessel from full payment of wages after they shall have been earned and shall be no defense to a libel for recovery of wages, If any person shall receive from any”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. The Windrush