Executive Order 3097

Paragraph 230 of the Consular Regulations of 1896 is hereby amended to read as follows:

230. Payment of Wages at Ports. Every seaman on a vessel of the United States shall be entitled to receive on demand from the master of the vessel to which he belongs, one-half part of the wages, which he shall have then earned, less any advances which may have been made to him at the time of or before he signed the articles in case the advances were made in a foreign port and sanctioned by the law of such port, at every port where such vessel, after the voyage has commenced, shall load or deliver cargo before the voyage is ended and all stipulations in the contract to the contrary shall be void: Provided such demand shall not be made before the expiration of nor oftener than five days. Any failure of the master to comply with this demand shall release the seaman from his contract, and he shall be entitled to full payment of wages earned less any advances which may have been legally made. And when the voyage is ended, every such seaman shall be entitled to the remainder of the wages which shall then be due to him as provided in R. S. 4529. R. S. 4530, as amended by section 4 of the Seamen's Act of March 4, 1915, 38 Stat. 1165; also opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States in the cases of the British ship Talus and the American ship Rhine, rendered December 23, 1918, 248 U. S. 185; 205.

Woodrow Wilson 

The White House,

17 June, 1919.