Chapter 26. To amend the laws relating to navigation
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CHAP. 26.— An Act To amend the laws relating to navigation. February 17, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Navigation.Transportation of merchandise in American vessels.[R. S., sec. 4347, p. 839](/us/rs/s4347/p839), etc.Sailing of foreign vessels between United States ports not prohibited.*Proviso.*Not to be reladen, etc. That no merchandise shall be transported by water under penalty of forfeiture thereof from one port of the United States to another port of the United States, either directly or via a foreign port, or for any part of the voyage, in any other vessel than a vessel of the United States.
But this section shall not be construed to prohibit the sailing of any foreign vessel from one to another port of the United States: Provided, That no merchandise other than that imported in such vessel from some foreign port which shall not have been unladen shall be carried from one port or place in the United States to another. Sec. 2. That section eight of “An Act to abolish certain fees for official services to American vessels, and to amend the laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen, owners of vessels, and for other purposes,”Vol. 24, p. 81. approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, is hereby amended to read:
" “Sec. 8. Increase of penalty to foreign vessels on passengers between United States ports. No foreign vessel shall transport passengers between ports or places in the United States, either directly or by way of a foreign port, under a penalty of two hundred dollars for each passenger so transported and landed.” " Sec. 3. Regulations by Secretary of the Treasury for the transshipment of merchandise, etc. Whenever merchandise is imported into the United States by sea for immediate exportation to a foreign port by sea, or by a river, the right to ascend or descend which for the purposes of commerce is secured by treaty to the citizens of the United States and the subjects of a foreign power, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to prescribe regulations for the transshipment and transportation of such merchandise.
Sec. 4. Report by masters of foreign vessels.[R. S., sec. 3109, p. 597](/rs/s3109/p597), amended. That section thirty-one hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended to read: " “Sec. 3109. The master of any foreign vessel, laden or in ballast, arriving, whether by sea or otherwise, in the waters of the United States from any foreign territory adjacent to the northern, northeastern, FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 26– 28, 30, 31. 1898. 249 or north western frontiers of the United States, shall report at the office of any collector or deputy collector of the customs, which shall be nearest to the point at which such vessel may enter such waters; andPermits. such vessel shall not transfer her cargo or passengers to another vessel or proceed farther inland, either to unlade or take in cargo, without a special permit from such collector or deputy collector, issued under and in accordance with such general or special regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, from time to time prescribe.
This section shall also apply to trade with or through Alaska. For anyTo apply to Alaska. violation of this section such vessel shall be seized and forfeited.” " Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect one month after its passage.To take effect. Approved, February 17, 1898.