Chapter 96. To carry into effect the international convention of December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, relating to the exemption in time of war of hospital ships from dues and taxes on vessels
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CHAP. 96.— An Act To carry into effect the international convention of December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, relating to the exemption in time of war of hospital ships from dues and taxes on vessels. March 24, 1908.[[S. 4377.]](/us/bill/70/s/4377)[[Public, No. 62](/us/pl/70/62).] Whereas a convention providing for the exemption of hospital shipsPreamble. in time of war from the payment of all dues and taxes imposed for the benefit of the State was signed at The Hague on December twenty-first,*Post*, p. 1854. nineteen hundred and four, by the plenipotentiaries of the United States of America, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, China, Korea, Denmark, Spain, Mexico, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Peru, Persia, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Servia, Siam, and Switzerland; and Whereas the said convention was duly ratified by the Government of the United States of America by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and was proclaimed by the President of the United States May twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven:
Therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That hospital ships, concerningHospital ships exempted from taxes, etc., in time of war. which the conditions set forth in articles one, two, and three of the convention concluded at The Hague on July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the adaptation to maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva convention of August twenty-second,Vol. 22, p. 940. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, are fulfilled, shall, in the ports of the United States and the possessions thereof, be exempted, in time of war, from all dues and taxes imposed on vessels by the laws of the United States, and from all pilotage charges.
Sec. 2. That the President of the United States shall by proclamationPresident to designate ships, etc. name the hospital ships to which this Act shall apply, and shall indicate the time when the exemptions herein provided for shall begin and end. Approved, March 24, 1908.