Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 4 — Puerto Rico
§ 744. Coasting trade laws
Statutory text
The coasting trade between Puerto Rico and the United States shall be regulated in accordance with the provisions of law applicable to such trade between any two great coasting districts of the United States.
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. 56–191 § 9 · 31 Stat. 77
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 744
Apr. 12, 1900, ch. 191, § 9, 31 Stat. 79
Source evidence
Code source credit
Apr. 12, 1900, ch. 191, § 9, 31 Stat. 79Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 9. That the Commissioner of Navigation shall make such regulations, Nationalization of Porto Rican vessels. subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, as he may deem expedient for the nationalization of all vessels owned by the inhabitants of Porto Rico on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and which continued to be so owned up to the date of such nationalization, and for the admission of the same to all the benefits of the coasting trade of the United States; and the coasting trade between Porto Rico and the United States shall be regulated in accordance with the provisions of law applicable to such trade between any two great coasting districts of the United States.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Additional provisions of section 9 of act , authorizing the making of regulations for the nationalization of all vessels owned by inhabitants of Puerto Rico on , and which continued to be so owned up to the date of that nationalization and for the admission of the same to all the benefits of the coasting trade of the United States, have been omitted.
Section was not enacted as part of the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act which comprises this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Puerto Rico” substituted in text for “Porto Rico” pursuant to act , which is classified to section 731a of this title.
Credits
1900–1932 · 2 acts
- 1900Apr. 12, 1900, ch. 191, § 9, 31 Stat. 79
- 1932May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158.
Show as published
(Apr. 12, 1900, ch. 191, § 9, 31 Stat. 79; May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158.)