Port Series, Issue 40

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Page 50 - After the expiration of the free time allowed, a charge of $1 per car per day, or fraction of a day, will be made until car is released.
Page 9 - States" as used in this section includes the Canal Zone, and all territory and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
Page 19 - Only such officials as are authorized in the several foreign countries and in the United States to measure vessels and to issue tonnage certificates for purposes of national registry, and such other officials as are authorized by the President of the United .States, or by those acting for him, to measure vessels and to issue Panama Canal tonnage certificates, shall have authority to measure vessels for Panama navigation or to issue Panama tonnage certificates.
Page 25 - No containers of explosives shall be loaded above the side of any crate or basket nor shall rope-net slings be so loaded as to prevent the sling from encompassing the entire load on its top side. Explosives shall not be handled roughly. They must be hoisted and lowered carefully and only deposited or lowered onto a mattress.
Page 52 - Neither the carrier nor the ship shall in any event be or become liable for any loss or damage to or in connection with the transportation of goods in an amount exceeding $500 per package lawful money of the United States, •or in case of goods not shipped in packages, per customary freight unit...
Page 8 - Part n hereof shall be required to present an identifying travel document in the nature of a passport, showing his nationality and identity and bearing his photograph, before he may be granted shore leave for any purpose, unless the possession of such an identifying travel document is waived by the Secretary of State, except that for such a seaman arriving at a port in the Virgin Islands the Governor thereof may grant such...
Page 8 - States as passengers or workaways solely in pursuit of their calling as seamen, shall be exempt from the crew-list visa or other non-immigrant visa requirements for such period and under such conditions as the Secretary of State, in his discretion, may prescribe if they arrive in the United States under the following circumstances: (a) Shipwrecked or castaway seamen rescued by, or transferred at sea to, a vessel bound for an American port; (b) Seamen who are American consular passengers or who are...

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