 | Commerce - 1914 - 664 pages
...port with a crew of which less than three out of every four men understand English. The law reads : A crew not less than 75 per centum of which, in each...any order given by the officers of such vessel. THE AMERICAS stand English. Some shipowners think they must be United States citizens, but there seems... | |
 | United States - 1915 - 990 pages
...those navigating rivers exclusively and the smaller inland lakes and except as provided in section one of this act, shall be permitted to depart from any...States unless she has on board a crew not less than seventy-five per centum of which, in each department thereof, are able to understand any order given... | |
 | American literature - 1915 - 796 pages
...impossible to do business under the new law. The most important of the new restrictions is that no ship "shall be permitted to depart from any port of the...unless she has on board a crew, not less than 75 per cent, of which in each department thereof are able to understand any orders given by the officers of... | |
 | Political science - 1915 - 674 pages
...vessel of 100 gross tons or over, except those navigating rivers exclusively and smaller inland lakes, shall be permitted to depart from any port of the...unless she has on board a crew not less than 75 per cent of which are able to understand an order given by the officers.16 This has been construed to mean... | |
 | John Randolph Spears - Merchant marine - 1915 - 410 pages
...shall depart from an American port "unless she has on board a crew not less than seventy-five percentum of which, in each department thereof, are able to...understand any order given by the officers of such vessel," nor unless at least 40 per cent of the crew " are of the rating of able seamen." The requirements for... | |
 | United States - Law - 1916 - 916 pages
...those navigating rivers exclusively and the smaller inland lakes and except as provided in section one of this Act, shall be permitted to depart from any...States unless she has on board a crew not less than seventy-five per centum of which, in each department thereof, are able to understand any order given... | |
 | United States - Law - 1916 - 906 pages
...depart from any port of the United States unless she has on board a crew not less than seventy-five per centum of which, in each department thereof, are...understand any order given by the officers of such vessel, nor unless forty per centum in the first year, fortyfive per centum in the second year, fifty per centum... | |
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SEC. 13. (a) That no vessel of one hundred tons gross and upward, except those navigating rivers exclusively and the smaller inland lakes and except as provided in section 1 of this Act, shall be permitted to depart from any port of the United States... 
