1911 supp. 1 AMENDMENTS TO THE NAVIGATION LAWS OF 1911-FIRST SUPPLEMENT. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, BUREAU OF NAVIGATION, Washington, September 25, 1912. To collectors of customs and others: The following changes in the laws relating to navigation and the merchant marine since the issue of the edition of 1911 were made by Congress prior to adjournment, on August 26, 1912. These amendments may be cut out and inserted at the pages indicated in the Navigation Laws of the United States, 1911. E. T. CHAMBERLAIN, Page 15.-Strike out last paragraph and insert: 3. Registered vessels. Aug. 24, 1912. Vessels built within the United States and belonging R. S., 4132. wholly to citizens thereof; and vessels which may be captured in war by citizens of the United States and lawfully condemned as prize, or which may be adjudged to be forfeited for a breach of the laws of the United States; and seagoing vessels, whether steam or sail, which have been certified by the Steamboat-Inspection Service as safe to carry dry and perishable cargo, not more than five years old at the time they apply for registry, wherever built, which are to engage only in trade with foreign countries or with the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila, being wholly owned by citizens of the United States or corporations organized and chartered under the laws of the United States or of any State thereof, the president and managing directors of which shall be citizens of the United States, and no others, may be registered as directed in this title. Foreign-built vessels registered pursuant to this Act shall not engage in the coastwise trade: Provided, That a foreign-built yacht, pleasure boat, or vessel not used or intended to be used for trade admitted to American registry pursuant to this section shall not be exempt from the collection of ad valorem duty provided in section thirty-seven of the Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An Act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and 61365°-12—1 ,, * encourage the industries of the United States, and for Page 17-Paragraph 8, " Yachts," strike out the words 66 by sea," in lines 7 and 8, and insert marginal note “Aug. 20, 1912"; strike out lower marginal note " Feb. 14, 1903, sec. 10." Page 18.-Add to last marginal note "R. S., 4132; Aug. 24, 1912, sec. 5." Page 19.—Strike out paragraph R. S., 4218, and insert: Aug. 20, 1912. Every yacht, except those of fifteen gross tons or under, R. S., 4218. visiting a foreign country under the provisions of sections forty-two hundred and fourteen, forty-two hundred and fifteen, and forty-two hundred and seventeen of the Revised Statutes shall, on her return to the United States, make due entry at the customhouse of the port at which, on such return, she shall arrive: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to exempt the master or person in charge of a yacht or vessel arriving from a foreign port or place with dutiable articles on board from reporting to the customs officer of the United States at the port or place at which said yacht or vessel shall arrive, and deliver in to said officer a manifest of all duti able articles brought from a foreign country in such yachts or vessels. Page 45.-Line 24, strike out the words " of twenty net register tons or over," and make second marginal note read "Apr. 24, 1906; Feb. 29, 1912," and third marginal note read" Apr. 24, 1906, sec. 3." Page 82.-Substitute the following for second paragraph and strike cut marginal note Mar. 3, 1911": Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign Apr. 30, 1912. countries, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philippine Islands, twenty thousand dollars. |