Executive Order 7826—Amendment of the Consular Regulations

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1752 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U.S.C., title 22, sec. 132), it is ordered that Article XIII of the Consular Regulations, as contained in Executive Order No. 7729 of October 16, 1937, be, and it is hereby, amended as follows:

1. That part of section 202 preceding paragraph numbered (1) is amended to read:

"202. Cases in which, seamen may be discharged. The usual cases in which American seamen are discharged, upon payment of wages, in a foreign port by consular officers, under the provisions of the statutes and the principles of maritime law, may be stated as follows:"

2. The following paragraph, numbered (11), is inserted between paragraphs numbered (10) and (12) of section 202:

"(11) When the vessel is wrecked, destroyed, lost, stranded, or condemned as unfit for service. (See also sec. 228.)"

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
February 28, 1938.