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agent anchorage Atlantic Balboa barrels berth bills of lading bulkhead bunkering Canal Zone cargo carload cars cents per 100 cents per hundredweight coal coastwise consignee crane Cristobal cubic foot customs discharge docks equipped export facilities Feet Feet Feet feet long fraction thereof freight fuel oil Gatun Gatun Lake handling harbor hour or fraction hundredweight or fraction intercoastal island kilometers Lesser Antilles loading or unloading lumber Mayaguez merchandise miles Miscellaneous Navigation Northern Pacific Railway operated owner Pacific coast Panama Canal Panama Railroad passengers petroleum products pier pilot pilotage Ponce Port Angeles port captain port of Olympia port of Port pounds Puerto Rico Puget Sound quarantine quarantine officer receipts regulations Republic of Panama rules San Juan Seattle ship shipments short tons South Steamship Steamship lines stevedoring storage tanks tariff terminal tonnage tons Total traffic transit shed tugs United vessel warehouse water-borne commerce West wharf wharfage wharves wood pulp
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Page 1 - Art. 11. A vessel under 150 feet in length when at anchor shall carry forward, where it can best be seen, but at a height not exceeding 20 feet above the hull, a white light, in a lantern so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light visible all around the horizon at a distance of at least 1 mile.
Page 49 - 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 13 - Mondays and the following holidays: New Year's Day, Lincoln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Election Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Page 25 - If any provision of this Act is declared unconstitutional or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provisions to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 19 - States at the Panama Canal Zone, whether such vessels be registered or enrolled and licensed, and the powers in respect of such seamen of such vessels bestowed by law upon consular officers of the United States in foreign ports and upon shipping commissioners in ports of the United States are hereby bestowed upon the shipping commissioner and deputy shipping commissioners on the Panama Canal Zone.
Page iii - ... to investigate any other matter that may tend to promote and encourage the use by vessels of ports adequate to care for the freight which would naturally pass through such ports...
Page 68 - The state of Washington asserts its ownership to the beds and shores of all navigable waters in the state up to and including the line of ordinary high tide, in waters where the tide ebbs and flows, and up to and including the line of ordinary high water within the banks of all navigable rivers and lakes: Provided, That this section shall not be construed so as to debar any person from asserting his claim to vested rights in the courts of the state.
Page ix - The legislature shall provide for the appointment of a commission whose duty it shall be to locate and establish harbor lines in the navigable waters of all harbors, estuaries, bays and inlets of this state, wherever such navigable waters lie within or in front of the corporate limits of any city or within one mile thereof upon either side.
Page iii - No. 8. Jacksonville, Fernandina, Miami, Key West, Tampa, and South Boca Grande, Fla.
Page ix - ... to advise with communities regarding the appropriate location and plan of construction of wharves, piers, and water terminals ; to investigate the practicability and advantages of harbor, river, and port improvements in connection with foreign...