Charge to Grand Jury

(charging grand jury). Tbe regulation of the rights and duties of merchant seamen is an important subject of the criminal laws of . the United States. The power to regulate commerce with foreign nations. and among the general states, conferred by the constitution on congress, includes the power to prescribe rules for the government of persons engaged in such commerce. And from a very early period in the history of the government, congress has passed criminal laws on this subject. One of those laws, which, more frequently perhaps than any other criminal law, comes under the notice of the…