United States Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Corporation: Hearings Before the Select Committee to Inquire Into the Operations, Policies, and Affairs of the United States Shipping Board and the United States Emergency Fleet Corporation, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to House Resolution 186, Partes1-2

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Contains exhibits related to the investigation of the operations, policies, and affairs of the U.S. Shipping Board and the U.S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.
 

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Página 5322 - America shall exercise due diligence to make the said vessel in all respects seaworthy and properly manned, equipped, and supplied, neither the vessel, her owner or owners, agent or charterers, shall become or be held responsible for damage or loss resulting from faults or errors in navigation or in the management of said vessel...
Página 5758 - States; and it is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to do whatever may be necessary to develop and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine...
Página 5139 - Such water carriage shall be performed subject to all the terms and provisions of, and all the exemptions from liability contained in the Act of Congress of the United States, approved on February 13, 1893, and entitled "An act relating to the navigation of vessels, etc.
Página 5758 - That it is necessary for the National defense and for the proper growth of its foreign and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine of the best equipped and most suitable types of vessels sufficient to carry the greater portion of its commerce and serve as a naval or military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency, ultimately to be owned and operated privately by citizens of the United States...
Página 5322 - Act of public enemies. g. Arrest or restraint of princes, rulers or people, or seizure under legal process.
Página 5319 - And finally, in accepting this bill of lading, the shipper, owner, and consignee of the goods, and the holder of the bill of lading agree to be bound by all of its stipulations, exceptions, and conditions, whether written or printed, as fully as if they were all signed by such shipper, owner, consignee, or holder.
Página 5135 - If the owners shall have exercised due diligence to make the vessel in all respects seaworthy and properly manned, equipped and supplied, it is hereby agreed that in case of danger, damage or disaster resulting from faults or errors in navifation, or in the management...
Página 5754 - ALSO, that the shippers shall be liable for any loss or damage to steamer, cargo, lighter or wharf, caused by inflammable, explosive or dangerous goods, shipped without full disclosure of their nature, whether such shipper be Principal or Agent ; and such goods may be thrown overboard or destroyed at any time without compensation.
Página 5762 - ... expeditious and economical transfer or interchange of passengers or property between carriers by water and carriers by rail...
Página 5073 - ... instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal ; that it was so affixed by order of the board of directors of said corporation, and that he signed his name thereto by like order.

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