 | United States. General Accounting Office - Finance, Public - 1937 - 768 pages
...1936, as amended by section 3 of the Act of August 7, 1939, 53 Stat. 1255, provides, in part, that: Whenever the President shall proclaim that the security...emergency declared by proclamation of the President, it shall be lawful for the Commission to requisition or purchase any vessel or other watercraft owned... | |
 | United States. General Accounting Office - Finance, Public - 1943 - 1414 pages
...Merchant Marine Act of 1936, as amended, 53 Stat. 1254, 1255, provides, in pertinent part, as follows : Whenever the President shall proclaim that the security...advisable or during any national emergency declared J>y proclamation of the President, it shall be lawful for the Commission to requisition or imrchase... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - Maritime law - 1937 - 1402 pages
...you propose? Commander MURPHY. We should like to have the language: Whenever the President shall deem that the security of the national defense makes it advisable, or during a national emergency. In other words, the present wording of the act seems to restrict that to "during... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries - 1939 - 22 pages
...OLIVER. In other words, won't it be amply taken care of by the first section of this particular clause, "whenever the President shall proclaim that the security of the national defense makes it advisable"? Does not that take care of the emergencies of impending war, or threatened war ? Admiral LAND. Yes;... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries - 1940 - 252 pages
...2015; USC, 1934 edition, Supp. IV, title 46, sec. 1242), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 902 (a) Whenever the President shall proclaim that the security...emergency declared by proclamation of the President, it shall be lawful for the Commission to requisition or purchase any vessel or other watercraft owned... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries - 1940 - 138 pages
...(g) (1) during a period in which vessels may be requisitioned under section 902 of the act, that is, whenever the President shall proclaim that the security...the national defense makes it advisable or during a national emergency declared by the President, and (2) to the extent provided by the act for the employment... | |
 | United States - Law - 1983 - 1442 pages
...shall have the right to inspect the vessel at any and all tunes to ascertain its condition. (d) That graph (1) of section 1303 of this title. Whenever...sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O." " United the Secretary of Transportation may terminate the charter without cost to the United States, upon such... | |
 | United States - Military law - 1941 - 406 pages
...the necessary functions under this section. 2198a. Transportation; requisition of vessels. — (a) Whenever the President shall proclaim that the security...emergency declared by proclamation of the President, it shall be lawful for the Commission to requisition or purchase any vessel or other watercraft owned... | |
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Commerce to requisition or purchase any vessel or other watercraft owned by citizens of the United States or under construction within the United States. or for any period during such emergency, to requisition or charter the use of any such property. 
