James Clark McReynolds

“ Stat. 1913, § 8293, the act of 1890, supra, was so amended as to render applicable to seamen in the coastwise trade when shipped by a shipping commissioner certain other sections of the Revised Statutes, including § 4536, from the act of 1872 ”

“ By a comprehensive act containing sixty-eight sections, approved June 7, 1872, and entitled, 'An Act to Authorize the Appointment of Shipping Commissioners by the Several Circuit Courts of the United States, to Superintend the Shipping and Discharge of Seamen Engaged in Merchant Ships Belonging to the United States, and for the Further Protection of Seamen,' chap. ”

“ Provided, That the clothing of any seaman shall be exempt from attachment.'
The act of March 3, 1897, chap. 389, 29 Stat. at L. 687, 689, Comp. Stat. 1913, §§ 8293, 8296, amends the foregoing act of 1895 by adding another section of the Revised Statutes to those therein enumerated. ”