Merchant mariners - Legal status, laws, etc. - United States

It is agreed between the masters, seamen and mariners of the [blank] master, now bound [blank] That in consideration of the sums as monthly, or other wages affixed to our names, we the said seamen and mariners will perform a voyage from [blank] to [blank] and back to [blank] promising hereby to obey the lawful orders and commands of the said master ...