Chapter 637. To facilitate the procurement of statistics of trade between the United States and its noncontiguous territory
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CHAP. 637.— An Act To facilitate the procurement of statistics of trade between the United States and its noncontiguous territory. April 29, 1902. [[Public, No. 86](/us/pl/57/86).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Shipping. Documents required, trade with Hawaii, Porto Rico, Alaska, Philippines, and Guam. That the provisions of sections four thousand one hundred and ninety-seven to four thousand two hundred, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, requiring statements of quantity and value of goods carried by vessels clearing from the United States to foreign ports, shall be extended to and govern, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, in the trade between the United States and Hawaii, Porto Ktco, Alaska, the Philippine! Islands, Guam, and its other non-173contiguous territory, and shall also govern in the trade conducted between said islands and territory, and in shipments from said islands or territory to other pails of the United States: *Provided,* That this*Proviso*.Philippine trade. law shall not apply in the Philippine Islands during such time as the collectors of customs of those islands are under the jurisdiction of the War Department, Approved, April 29, 1902.