"(d) The term 'American vessel' means any vessel (including aircraft) documented under the laws of the United States. "(e) The term 'vehicle' means every description of carriage (including aircraft) or other contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on or over land. "(f) The term 'state' shall include nation, government, and country. "SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS "SEC. 14. If any of the provisions of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. "APPROPRIATIONS "SEC. 15. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and accomplish the purposes of this Act." Approved, May 1, 1937, 6.30 p. m., Central Standard Time. [CHAPTER 74-3D SESSION] [H. J. Res. 504] JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize compacts or agreements between the States bordering on the Great Lakes with respect to fishing in the waters of the Great Lakes, and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the consent of Congress is hereby given to any two or more of the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota to enter into compacts or agreements for the uniform regulation of fishing in the waters of the Great Lakes and connecting waters thereof on which such States border and to which their jurisdiction otherwise extends, and to establish such agencies, joint or otherwise, as they may deem desirable for making effective such compacts and agreements. SEC. 2. Any such compact or agreement shall not be binding or obligatory upon the signatory States unless it has been approved by the legislatures of such States and by the Congress of the United States. SEC. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this resolution is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, April 5, 1938. [CHAPTER 174-3D SESSION] [H. J. Res. 463] JOINT RESOLUTION To permit the transportation of passengers by Canadian passenger vessels between the port of Rochester, New York, and the port of Alexandria Bay, New York, on Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence River. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, until such time as passenger service shall be established by vessels of the United States between the port of Rochester, New York, and the port of Alexandria Bay, New York, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized in his discretion to issue annually permits to Canadian passenger vessels to transport passengers between these ports; such Canadian vessels holding such permits not to be subject to the provisions of section 8 of the Act of June 19, 1886, as amended by section 2 of the Act of February 17, 1898 (46 U. S. C., sec. 289). Approved, April 26, 1938. (314) [CHAPTER 821-3D SESSION] (H. J. Res. 723] JOINT RESOLUTION To an end H. R. 10672, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session, entitled "An Act to amend section 4197 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 46, sec. 91), and section 4200 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 46, sec. 92), and for other purposes", so as to correct typographical error. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of H. R. 10672, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session, entitled "An Act to amend section 4197 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 46, sec. 91), and section 4200 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 46, sec. 92), and for other purposes", be amended by striking out the first period in the proviso in said section, and by changing the capital "U" in the word "upon" to a small "u", so that the said proviso will read as follows: "Provided, That in order that the commerce of the United States may move with expedition and without undue delay, the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to make regulations permitting the clearance of a vessel having on board cargo destined to a foreign port or to a port in noncontiguous territory belonging to the United States, before delivery to the collector of customs of shippers' manifests or export declarations of the cargo laden on board, upon receipt by the collector of a bond with security approved by him in the penal sum of $1,000, conditioned that the complete shippers' manifests or export declarations of all cargo laden aboard such vessel shall be filed with him not later than the fourth business day after the clearance of the vessel. In the event that all of the shippers' manifests or export declarations are not filed as required by the provisions of this section and the regulations made by the Secretary of Commerce in pursuance hereof, then a penalty of $50 for each day's delinquency beyond the allowed period of four days for filing all of the shippers' manifests or export declarations shall be exacted, and if all of the shippers' manifests or export declarations are not filed within the three days following the four-day period, then for each succeeding day of delinquency, a penalty of $100 shall be exacted. Suit may be instituted in the name of the United States against the principal and surety on the bond for the recovery of any penalties that may accrue and be exacted in accordance with the terms of the bond." Approved, June 29, 1938. [CHAPTER 26-1ST SESSION] AN ACT To exempt all vessels of the United States of less than two hundred tons gross registered tonnage from the provisions of the Officers' Competency Certificates Convention, 1936 (being International Labor Conference Treaty, Convention Numbered 53, adopted by the International Labor Conference at Geneva in 1936). Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That pursuant to the authority granted in the second clause of Article One of the Officers' Competency Certificates Convention, 1936, ratified by the President of the United States on September 1, 1938, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, given June 13, 1938 (being International Labor Conference Treaty, Draft Convention, Numbered 53, adopted by the International Labor Conference at Geneva in 1936), vessels of the United States of less than two hundred tons gross registered tonnage are hereby exempted from the provisions of such convention: Provided, however, That neither the ratification of the said convention by the President of the United States, nor the advice and consent of the United States Senate given thereto, nor any provision of the said convention as ratified, nor any provision of this Act shall be deemed to alter, amend, or repeal any statute of the United States existing at the time of said ratification, or thereafter enacted, with regard to any such vessel of less than two hundred tons gross registered tonnage. Approved, March 29, 1939. |