30th Congress,
thi 2^nd Session,
BE IT ENACTED
By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress Assembled.

That all vessels bound from any port in the Untied States to any port or place in the Pacific Ocean or on its tributaries or from any such port or place to any part in the United States on the Atlantic or its tributaries shall be subject to the provisions of all the laws now in force relating to the Carraige of passengers in merchant vessels sailing to and from foreign Countries and the regulation thereof; except the fourth section of the “act to provide for the ventilation of passenger vessels and for other purposes “approved May 17th eighteen hundred and forty eight relating to provisions, water and fuel, but the owners and Masters of all such vessels, shall in all cases furnish to each passenger the daily supply of water therein mentioned, and they shall furnish, or cause the passengers to furnish for themselves a sufficient supply of good and wholesome food, and in case they shall fail so to do, or shall provide unwholesome or unsuitable provisions, they shall be subject to the penalty provided in said fourth section, in case the passengers are put on that allowance

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allowance of Water or provisions

Sec: 2 And be it further enacted that the act entitled “an act to regulate the carraige of passengers in Merchant vessels” approved February 22^nd eighteen hundred and forty seven shall be so amended as that a vessel passing into or through the tropics, shall be allowed to carry the same number of passengers as vessels that do not enter the tropics

Sec 3. And be it further enacted that this act shall take effect on and after the fifteenth day of March eighteen hundred and forty nine.