DEPOSITED BY THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MAY 6 40

CONTENTS

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MERCHANT MARINE ACT, 1936_.-

THIRD DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION ACT, 1937 (EXCERPT).

SECOND DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION ACT, 1938 (EXCERPT)_.

Independent OFFICES APPROPRIATION Act, 1940 (ExcerPTS) – –

BANKRUPTCY Act, amendment of 1938 (EXCERPT)-

SHIPPING ACT, 1916..

MERCHANT MARINE ACT, 1920_---

SHIP MORTGAGE ACT, 1920__.

MERCHANT MARINE ACT, 1928_-

INTERCOASTAL SHIPPING ACT, 1933-

SUITS IN ADMIRALTY ACT (1920)_

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79

80

81

83

85

106

122

135

143

147

(Exemption of American Samoa from coastwise laws.)

ACT OF OCTOBER 14, 1919_.

157

(Extension of Steamboat Inspection Laws to Shipping Board vessels.)

ACT OF MARCH 21, 1936_.

158

(Extension of Public Health Service facilities to seamen on Govern-

ment vessels.)

ACT OF APRIL 19, 1930__

159

(Authority of Shipping Board to sell Hoboken piers.)

ACT OF JUNE 21, 1938_.

160

(Authority of Maritime Commission to sell or lease Hoboken piers to

city of Hoboken.)

ACT OF AUGUST 4, 1939..

162

(Authority of Coast Guard to detail personnel for maritime in-

struction.)

JOINT RESOLUTION OF MARCH 30, 1937.

163

(Declaring Joseph P. Kennedy eligible for appointment as a mem-

ber of the United States Maritime Commission.)

APPENDIX

STATUTES:

Act of May 12, 1917.

182

Authorizing the seizure of German and other alien enemy vessels
interned in American ports.

Authorizing the Emergency Fleet Corporation to provide houses

for shipyard employees.

Act of March 28, 1918_.

184

Authorizing the President to take over German-owned port facili-

ties.

Act of July 18, 1918.

172

Conferring on the President the power to prescribe charter rates

and freight rates and to requisition vessels.

(III)

PROCLAMATIONS:

June 28, 1918_.

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184

Taking over title to and possession of German port facilities.

July 29, 1918_.

176

Authorizing the Shipping Board to exercise the powers conferred
on the President by the act of July 18, 1918.

December 3, 1918__--

185

Fixing compensation for the North-German Lloyd and Hamburg-
American docks.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS:

June 30, 1917_.

182

Authorizing and directing the Shipping Board to seize and operate
the German ships.

July 11, 1917_.

170

Delegating to the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Cor-
poration the powers conferred upon the President by the Emer-
gency Shipping Act of June 15, 1917.

171

June 18, 1918_

Delegating to the Emergency Fleet Corporation the authority con-
ferred on the President by the act of April 22, 1918, taking over
transportation facilities around shipyards.

December 3, 1918.

1. Delegating to the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet
Corporation powers granted to the President by the acts rel-
ative to the emergency shipping fund. (p. 171.)

2. Delegating to the Shipping Board certain powers conferred on
the President by the act of July 18, 1918, relative to charter
and freight rates. (p. 178.)

August 11, 1919_.

171

178

181

Directing the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corpora-
tion to dispose of materials or plants.

November 2, 1921__.

190

Giving the Panama Railroad Steamship Company the right to use
the Hoboken piers.

191

June 27, 1924_-

Transferring a portion of the Army Supply Base at Norfolk, Va., from the control of the War Department to the Shipping Board. June 10, 1933__.

Transferring the Shipping Board and the Merchant Fleet Corpo-
ration to the Department of Commerce.

165