to Sec. 14. Suits brought in be Court of Claims. etc. Sec. 15. expended in car That whenever by this act permission is given to sue the the United States such suit shall be brought in the manner provided in section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code. That all vessels of which the possession or services are vessels, docks, requisitioned under this act, and all dry docks, wharves, loading or discharging terminal facilities, warehouses, equipment, or terminal railways, of which the President may acquire the title or possession or of which he may assume control under this act, may be operated and manProceeds to be aged as the President may from time to time direct. The rying out pur- net proceeds derived from any activity authorized in this pose of shipping act or the joint resolution of May twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen (Public Numbered Two), or the division entitled, "Emergency shipping fund" of the act of June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen (Public Numbered Twenty-three), shall be deposited in the Treasury in a separate and distinct fund and may be expended by the President in carrying out the purposes of this act, and within the limits of the amounts heretofore or hereafter authorized for the construction, requisitioning, or purchasing of vessels: Provided, That none of in the provisions of this act shall apply to vessels plying exclusively on the inland rivers and canals of the United States. acts. Proviso. Inland navigation not cluded. Sec. 16. Proviso. Canal offenses. Sec. 17. Invalidity any That whoever does or attempts to do anything in this act declared to be unlawful, or willfully violates any rule, regulation, or order issued under authority conferred herein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both: Provided, That the district court of the Canal Zone shall have jurisdiction of offenses committed against the provisions of this act within the Canal Zone. That if any provision of this act, or the application of of provision such provisions to certain circumstances, is held unconrot to affect re-stitutional, the remainder of the act, and the application mainder of act. of such provision to circumstances other than those as to which it is held unconstitutional, shall not be affected thereby. Approved, July 18, 1918. INDEXES. Page. INDEX TO THE SHIPPING ACT, 1916. [A table of the laws included in this volume is given on p. 603, and an alphabetical index appears on Accommodations, special agreement relative p. 615.] Page. Army transports: Vessels of Board to be available as.. 570 Admission of vessels to American registry. Arrangements. See Agreements. |