RIGHTS AND DUTIES

OF

MERCHANT SEAMEN.

ON THE

RIGHTS AND DUTIES

OF

3808

MERCHANT SEAMEN,

ACCORDING TO THE

General Maritime Law,

AND THE STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES.

Herein are the good ordinances of the Sea, which wise men, who voyaged round the world, gave to our ancestors, and
which constitute the books of the science of good customs.

The Consulate of the Sea.

BY GEORGE TICKNOR CURTIS,

OF THE BOSTON BAR.

BOSTON:

CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN.

MDCCCXLI.

1841

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by

GEORGE T. CURTIS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.

L 1645

JUN 1 9 1930

BOSTON:

PRINTED BY FREEMAN AND BOLLES,

WASHINGTON STREET.

TO

THE HONORABLE

JOSEPH STORY, LL. D.,

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, DANE PROFESSOR OF LAW IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY, &C. &C.

WHOSE NAME IS IDENTIFIED

WITH THE

MARITIME JURISPRUDENCE

OF AMERICA,

This Work

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

BY THE AUTHOR.