Section 118. Issuance of order or other instrument securing passage by vessel from foreign port to this state; what to contain

No  person
  agreeing to furnish or secure for any other person, for a consideration,
  passage  by vessel from any foreign port to any port in this state shall
  issue any advice, order, certificate or other instrument  purporting  to
  entitle  one  or more persons to a passage ticket or other evidence of a
  right of passage,  unless  every  such  advise,  order,  certificate  or
  instrument shall be signed or countersigned by a duly appointed agent as
  provided  in  section  one hundred seventeen, of the vessel or line over
  which said advice, order, certificate or other instrument is held out to
  be good to secure such passage ticket or other evidence of  a  right  of
  passage.  Every  such order, advice, certificate or other instrument and
  every receipt for money paid for or  on  account  of  any  such  advice,
  order, certificate or other instrument, shall contain a statement of the
  amount paid or to be paid for such passage; the name, address and age of
  the  person  for whom intended; the name of the company or line, if any,
  to which the vessel on which passage is to be made  belongs;  the  place
  from  which such passage is to commence; the place where such passage is
  to terminate; the name of the  person  purchasing  such  advice,  order,
  certificate  or other instrument, and such advice, order, certificate or
  other instrument must be signed by the person who issues it.