Navigation Laws of the United States, 1915

United States

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915 - Maritime law - 585 pages

Contents

• Definition of vessel: 15
• Provisional certificates of registry: 16
• Repeal of penalties: 17
• Prohibitions: 18
• Licensed vessels under 20 tons: 19
• Official number: 21
• Change of name: 22
• MEASUREMENT 17 Measurement: 23
• Gross tonnage: 24
• Deck houses breaks etc: 26
• Open vessels: 27
• Deductions for other purposes: 29
• Deductions for propelling power: 30
• Register tonnage: 31
• Vessels exempt from measurement: 32
• DOCUMENTS OF VESSELS 33 Carpenters certificate: 33
• Masters oath of citizenship: 34
• Form of register: 36
• Custody and surrender of register: 37
• Registers to corporations: 38
• Change of owner: 39
• Mortgage and bill of sale: 40
• Sale to alien: 41
• Failure to deliver former register: 42
• OFFICERS OF MERCHANT VESSELS: 54
• Owners or masters may ship seamen in certain cases: 62
• Shipment of seamen in the coasting or nearby foreign trade: 68
• Wages: 74
• Desertion of seamen abroad: 80
• Corporal punishment prohibited: 89
• Form of articles of agreement: 90
• Account of apprentices on board: 91
• Scale of provisions to be allowed and served out to crew during the voyage: 92
• Certificate of discharge: 93
• Jurisdiction over American seamen in foreign ports and foreign seamen in American ports: 94
• Seamens witness fees: 96
• Manning of merchant vessels: 97
• Undermanning: 99
• SEAWORTHINESS SUPPLIES LOG BOOK 120 Unseaworthy vessels: 100
• Seagoing barges: 101
• Inspection of seaworthiness at domestic ports: 102
• Inspection of seaworthiness at foreign ports: 104
• Provisions and water: 105
• Weights and measures: 107
• Warmth and clothing: 108
• LIABILITY OF OWNERS MASTERS AND SHIPPERS 131 Liability of owners masters and shippers: 110
• Act of February 13 1893 Harter Act: 112
• General libel bond: 113
• INSPECTION OF STEAM VESSELS 134 General provisions: 115
• Inspection of registered foreignbuilt vessels: 120
• Manning of inspected vessels: 121
• Inspection of hulls and equipment: 122
• Loading safety valve: 126
• Stairways and deck room: 145
• Wire tiller ropes: 146
• Inflammable or explosive cargo: 148
• Carriage of passengers: 153
• Certificate of inspection: 154
• Exhibit of laws: 156
• Liability for damage: 157
• Enforcement and penalty: 158
• PASSENGER ACT OF 1882: 159
• Light and air: 162
• Provisions: 163
• Discipline and cleanliness: 164
• Privacy of passengers: 165
• Boarding vessel passenger list: 166
• Death of passenger: 167
• Penalties: 168
• GENERAL PILOT LAWS 163 General pilot laws: 169
• TONNAGE TAX 164 Rates of tax: 171
• Discriminating tonnage taxes: 172
• Alien tonnage taxes in exceptional cases: 173
• Consular tonnage charges: 174
• DISCRIMINATION AND RETALIATION 171 Discrimination against American vessels: 175
• Discrimination against products of the United States: 177
• Vessels of nations not assimilated by treaty to American vessels: 178
• Discriminating duties: 179
• ENTRY AND CLEARANCE 177 Clearance: 180
• Form of outward manifest: 181
• Form of clearance: 182
• Liveoak timber: 183
• Oath of ownership on entry: 184
• Deposit of papers: 185
• War documents passports sea letters: 186
• Illegal boarding of vessel: 187
• CustomS LAWS DIRECTLY RELATING TO VESSELS 191 Boarding and search of vessel: 188
• Seizure of vessels or merchandise: 189
• Exemption from forfeiture: 192
• MoietiesInformers and customs officers awards: 193
• Procedure: 195
• 197 Oaths of masters and owners: 197
• ENTRY OF MERCHANDISE 198 Definitions: 198
• Ports of entry: 199
• Special inward manifest for Treasury Department: 200
• Cargo in bulk: 201
• Inspection of merchandise laden for export: 202
• Vessels exempt from entry: 203
• TARIFF PROVISIONS DIRECTLY RELATING TO VESSELS: 237
• DOMESTIC COMMERCE Fage 267 Great districts: 252
• Entry within a great district: 253
• Coasting trade via Isthmus of Panama: 254
• Entry to another great district: 255
• Exemption on the Mississippi and tributaries: 256
• Sea stores: 257
• Registered vessels in the coasting trade: 258
• Foreign vessels on coasting voyages: 259
• Penalties for violation of coasting laws: 260
• Forfeiture of vessel and merchandise: 261
• General provisions: 262
• Forms and penalties: 263
• Seamens laws: 264
• TRADE WITH Porto Rico 289 General provisions: 265
• Quarantine and public health: 266
• Wharves and piers: 267
• TRADE WITH THE PHILIPPINES + 294 Treaty of peace: 268
• Vessels and coasting trade: 269
• Tariff and internal revenue: 270
• Aids to navigation and commerce: 273
• TRADE WITH ALASKA 299 Coasting laws: 274
• Transfer of cargo: 275
• Transit in bond: 276
• SEAL HUNTING AND ALASKA FISHERIES: 278
• Convention with Great Britain Japan and Russia effective December 309 Act of August 24 1912: 280
• Regulations for the protection of furbearing animals in Alaska dated March 8 1911 Department of Commerce: 283
• Report to Congress: 284
• Alien fishermen in Alaska: 288
• QUARANTINE AND BILLS OF HEALTH Page 315 Consular bill of health: 291
• Quarantine regulations: 292
• Quarantine inspection: 294
• Suspension of commerce: 295
• Penalties: 296
• Removal of cargo: 297
• Removal of customhouse: 298
• IMMIGRATION 325 Head tax: 301
• Insular territory: 302
• Contract labor: 305
• Illegal landing: 306
• Manifest of aliens: 307
• Inspection of aliens: 310
• Detention on board: 311
• Public charges: 313
• Place of deportation: 314
• Foreign officials: 315
• Immigration to Philippines: 316
• OCEAN MAIL SERVICE 347 Ocean mail act of 1891: 317
• General ocean mail service: 320
• WRECKS 349 Report of wrecks: 324
• Canadian wrecks: 325
• Wrecks in Florida waters: 326
• Coast GUARD CUTTERS 353 Coast Guard cutters: 327
• REMISSION OF FINES AND PENALTIES 354 Remission of fines and penalties: 329
• CATTLE LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY TRADE 355 Regulation of cattle ships: 331
• Horses and horse meat: 333
• Diseased cattle: 334
• Exportation of diseased live stock: 335
• Care of cattle in domestic trade: 337
• 362 Neat cattle: 339
• Inspection of butter and dairy products: 340
• ADULTERATED PRODUCTS 364 General provision: 342
• OPIUM TRADE 366 Opium trade: 346
• RULES TO PREVENT COLLISIONS 367 Duty to stay by: 350
• Motorboat law: 351
• International rules of 1897: 353
• Consideration of future rules: 367
• Limits of application of international and inland or local rules: 378
• Rules for the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence River as far east as Montreal: 382
• Rules for the Red River of the North and rivers emptying into Gulf of Mexico and their tributaries: 388
• River navigation 393 i: 393
• Rules for the St Marys River: 394
• AIDS TO NAVIGATION 378 Assistance by United States vessels: 396
• Lights and buoys: 397
• Storm and weather signals: 398
• Interference with range lights: 399
• Anchorage grounds: 400
• OBSTRUCTIONS TO NAVIGATION 388 Improvements by private or municipal corporations: 401
• General obstructions: 407
• Penalties: 408
• Impairing public works: 410
• Log regulations 411: 411
• Penalties: 412
• Bridge spans: 413
• Bridge piers and abutments: 414
• Sunken wrecks: 415
• Speed of vessels navigation of canals: 417
• Mississippi River passes: 418
• New YORK HARBOR 405 New York Harbor: 419
• Radio COMMUNICATION 406 Wireless ship act: 424
• Enforcement of wirelesscommunication laws treaties and conventions: 425
• Offenses against neutrality: 434
• MISCELLANEOUS: 440
• LEGAL PROCEDURE: 464
• PIRACY: 476
• PROTECTION OF SUBMARINE CABLES 460 Protection of gubmarine cables: 479
• ADMINISTRATIVE AND EXECUTIVE OFFICES 461 Department of Commerce: 482
• Bureau of Navigation: 486
• Shipping commissioners: 488
• Customs officers: 489
• SteamboatInspection Service: 496
• Public Health Service: 501
• Immigration and Naturalization Bureau: 503
• oast Guard: 506
• LifeSaving Service: 508
• oast Guard: 512
• Treasury agents: 516
• Alaska seal agents: 517
• Coast and Geodetic Survey: 518
• District court commissioners: 519
• Unauthorized services: 520
• FEES PAYABLE BY PRIVATE PERSONS 477 Fees on vessels payable by private persons: 522
• Customs districts and ports of entry: 527
• Power to designate ports and subports: 533
• Consulates of the United States: 535
• 1 Revised Statutes and amendments: 539
• Acts subsequent to Revised Statutes: 550
• Alphabetical index: 557

Popular passages

Page 380 - Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any vessel or the owner or master or crew thereof from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper lookout, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen or by the special circumstances of the case.

Page 316 - ... organized government, or who advocates or teaches the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the Government of the United States...

Page 367 - ... between the two vessels shall make the overtaking vessel a crossing vessel within the meaning of these rules, or relieve her of the duty of keeping clear of the overtaken vessel until she is finally past and clear.

Page 380 - When a vessel is in distress and requires assistance from other vessels or from the shore the following shall be the signals to be used or displayed by her, either together or separately, namely: In the daytime: First. A gun or other explosive signal fired at intervals of about a minute.

Page 384 - On the starboard side a green light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam...

Page 366 - Where, by any of these rules, one of two vessels is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course and speed.

Page 392 - ... use : and shall, on the approach of or to other vessels, be exhibited on their respective sides in sufficient time to prevent collision, in such manner as to make them most visible, and so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side, nor, if practicable, more than two points abaft the beam on their respective sides.

Page 389 - In obeying and construing these rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.

Page 386 - A vessel under one hundred and fifty feet in length when at anchor shall carry forward, where it can best be seen, but at a height not exceeding twenty feet above the hull, a white light, in a lantern so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light visible all around the horizon at a distance of at least one mile.

Page 379 - As by day the overtaking vessel can not always know with certainty whether she is forward of or abaft this direction from the other vessel, she should, if in doubt, assume that she is an overtaking vessel and keep out of the way.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Navigation Laws of the United States, 1915
• Author: United States
• Contributor: United States. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Navigation
• Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Sep 25, 2007
• Length: 585 pages