Title 47 — Telecommunications
Chapter 2 — Submarine Cables
§ 26. Duties of commanders of warships
Statutory text
For the purpose of carrying into effect the convention described in section 30 of this title a person commanding a ship of war of the United States or of any foreign state for the time being bound by the convention, or a ship specially commissioned by the Government of the United States or by the government of such foreign state, may exercise and perform the duties with respect to requiring exhibition of documents evidencing the nationality of offending vessels and making reports of infractions vested in and imposed on such officer by the convention.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 50–17 § 6 · 25 Stat. 41
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 26
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 6, 25 Stat. 42.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 6, 25 Stat. 42.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 6. That for the purpose of carrying into effect the convention, Officers authorized. a person commanding a ship of war of the United States or of any foreign state for the time being bound by the convention, or a ship specially commissioned by the Government of the United States or by the Government of such foreign state, may exercise and perform the duties vested in and imposed on such officer by the convention.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
The original enactment of this section did not contain the words, “with respect to requiring exhibition of documents evidencing the nationality of offending vessels and making reports of infractions,” which are inserted in view of the powers conferred on commanders of vessels of war contained in article 10 of the Convention, 24 Stat. 996, set out as a note under section 27 of this title.
Credits
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 6, 25 Stat. 42.)