[mrsmith]

Here is the original act: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=017/llsl017.db&recNum=317
It's a TIFF document

It is NOT only about sailor-mongering. In fact that seems to be in a different section than would apply here.

I repeat it does NOT seem like the sailor-mongering section of the act is what was used. The Sailor-mongering section only applies AFTER the ship has arrived. The article reads like they boarded AS the ship arrived.

I'm disappointed in Turley.
Of course, I would not like this applied selectively though.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I would say that you are right section 62 is clearly the one that they would be using and it does fit.

[cyncooper]

Thank you for doing some research and providing us with the information.

Let's see, the Ashcroft Justice Department is upheld time and again by the courts of the land. The Reno Justice Department was constantly being overturned. What does that tell us?

That perhaps we ought to recognize that some know how to follow the laws of the land is what it tells me, and are not capricious or malicious in enforcing them.