Chapter 88. Giving the United States Shipping Board power to suspend present provisions of law and permit vessels of foreign registry and foreign-built vessels admitted to American registry under the Act of August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to engage in the coastwise trade during the present war
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CHAP. 88.— An Act Giving the United States Shipping Board power to suspend present provisions of law and permit vessels of foreign registry and foreign-built vessels admitted to American registry under the Act of August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to engage in the coastwise trade during the present war and for a period of one hundred and twenty days thereafter, except the coastwise trade with Alaska. October 6, 1917.[[H. R. 6175](/us/bill/65/hr/6175).][[Public, No. 73](/us/pl/65/73).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Shipping.Coastwise trade permitted to registered foreign-built vessels, etc., during the war.
That during the present war with Germany and for a period of one hundred and twenty days thereafter the United States Shipping Board may, if in its judgment the interests of the United States require, suspend the present provisions of law and permit vessels of foreign registry, and foreign-builtVol. 37, p. 562; Vol. 38, p. 698. vessels admitted to American registry under the Act of August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to engage in the coastwise*Provisos*.Permits required. trade of the United States: *Provided*, That no such vessel shall engage in the coastwise trade except upon a permit issued by the United States Shipping Board, which permit shall limit or define the scope of the trade and the time of such employment: *Provided further*,Preference to American owned, etc.
That in issuing permits the board shall give preference to vessels of foreign registry owned, leased, or chartered by citizens of the United States or corporations thereof: *And provided further*, Alaska trade not included.That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to the coastwise trade with Alaska or between Alaskan ports. Approved, October 6, 1917.