Author: United States Bureau of Navigation

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9781396836923

Excerpt from Navigation Laws of the United States, 1919 Sm: The edition of the Navigation Laws for 1915 has been pre pared in substantially the same form as the editions of 1895, 1899, 1903, 1907, and 1911, which proved to be convenient for the use of collectors of customs, shipping commissioners, the masters, owners, and agents of vessels, seamen, and others directly interested in ves sels, their officers, crews, passengers, and cargo. As in the five former editions, the effort has been made to include in this volume only laws actually in force. Tere sections of the Revised Statutes or other laws have been specifically repealed or amended by subsequent legislation the repealed portions of the law are omitted, and the present, not the original, reading of amended sections is adopted. The effort has been made to confine the law included in this volume to the navigation law, meaning by that term the law relating to ves sels, with which owners, masters, and agents should be acquainted. The line between this law and the customs law is not always clearly defined. The laws directly relating to duties on imports and to in voices are not included in this volume, while those relating to entry, clearance, manifests, and transportation by water have been com prised within its limits. The respective jurisdictions of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Commerce are more clearly defined than heretofore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.