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[CITE: 22USC256]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 6--FOREIGN DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR OFFICERS
 
Sec. 256. Jurisdiction of consular officers in disputes between 
        seamen
        
    Whenever it is stipulated by treaty or convention between the United 
States and any foreign nation that the consul general, consuls, vice 
consuls, or consular or commercial agents of each nation, shall have 
exclusive jurisdiction of controversies, difficulties, or disorders 
arising at sea or in the waters or ports of the other nation, between 
the master or officers and any of the crew, or between any of the crew 
themselves, of any vessel belonging to the nation represented by such 
consular officer, such stipulations shall be executed and enforced 
within the jurisdiction of the United States as declared in sections 257 
and 258 of this title. But before this section shall take effect as to 
the vessels of any particular nation having such treaty with the United 
States, the President shall be satisfied that similar provisions have 
been made for the execution of such treaty by the other contracting 
party, and shall issue his proclamation to that effect, declaring this 
section to be in force as to such nation.

(R.S. Sec. 4079.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 4079 derived from act June 11, 1864, ch. 116, Sec. 1, 13 
Stat. 121.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 257 of this title.
