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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · February 14, 1900 · Chapter 19

Chapter 19. To amend section forty-two hundred and ninety of the Revised Statutes, relating to log entry of collisions

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CHAP. 19.— An Act To amend section forty-two hundred and ninety of the Revised Statutes, relating to log entry of collisions. February 14, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section forty-two hundred Entries of collisions to be made in log books. [R. S., sec. 4290, p. 828, amended](/us/rs/s4290/p828). and ninety of the Revised Statutes be amended by adding the following: " “Twelfth. In every case of collision in which it is practicable so to do, the master shall, immediately after the occurrence, cause a statement thereof, and of the circumstances under which the same occurred, to be entered in the official log book.
Such entry shall be made in —how made; penalty. the manner prescribed in section forty-two hundred and ninety-one, and failure to make such entry shall subject the offender to the penalties prescribed by section forty-two hundred and ninety-two.” " Sec. 2. That this Act shall take effect sixty days after its passage. Effect. Approved, February 14, 1900.
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