To regulate equipment of motor boats. Hearing April 15, 22, 1910. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1910. 26 p.

To regulate the officering and manning of vessels. Hearings on H. R. 8036. April 6, 1916 [and Supplementary telegrams, letters, and briefs... on H. R. 8036, April 29, 1916] Washington, Govt. print. off., 1916. 94 P.

To repeal penalties on foreign-built vessels owned by Americans. Report to accompany H. R. 18685. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1915. 2 p. (63d Cong., 3d sess. House. Report 1299) Serial 6766. Welfare of American seamen and safety of life at sea. Rept. to accompany S. 136. June 19, 1914. 31, 28 p. (63d Cong., 2d sess. House. Rept. 852, pt. 1-2)

Serial 6560. Senate. Committee on commerce. Authorizing change of names of vessels. Report [to accompany H. R. 3620] Washington, Govt. print. off., 1919. 1 p. (66th Cong., Ist sess. Senate. Rept. 299) Serial 7590. Numbering and recording of undocumented vessels. Report to accompany S. 1549. June 15, 1917. [Washington, Govt. print. off., 1917] 3 p. (65th Cong., 1st sess. Senate. Rept. 63) Serial 7249. Seamen's bill, hearing on S. 136 to promote welfare of American seamen in merchant marine of the United States; to abolish arrest and imprisonment as a penalty for desertion and to secure the abrogation of treaty provisions in relation thereto; and to promote safety at sea, as passed by the Senate and House . . . Sept. 10, 1914. [Washington, Govt. print. off., 1914] 21 p.

Serving of licensed officers in the merchant marine, and renewal of licenses of marine officers. Hearings . . . on H. R. 16346 and H. R. 16392 . . . July 17, 1914. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1914. 74 P.

Committee on naval affairs. Use of naval radio stations for commercial purposes. Hearing... sixty-sixth Congress, first session on the government ownership or control of radiotelegraphy and cable communication in its military and naval aspects. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1919. 317 p. Statements of Hon. E. T. Chamberlain, Commissioner of Navigation and Col. L. R. Krumm, Chief Radio Inspector, p. 297-305.

Select committee on methods of business and work in the executive departments. The Department of the treasury Washington, Govt. print. off., 1888. 475 p. (50th Cong., Ist sess. Senate. Rept. 507, part 2) Serial 2522. "Commissioner of Navigation" p. 434-37.

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Dept. of commerce. Bureau of navigation. (In its Department of commerce, July 1, 1913. Washington, 1913. p. 49-52. Department of commerce: condensed history, duties and practical operation of the Department and its several bureaus and offices, together with laws relating specifically thereto. July 1, 1913. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1913. 211 p. "Bureau of Navigation," p. 143-151.

265 p.

Government aid to merchant shipping. Study of subsidies, subventions, and other forms of state aid in principal countries of the world, by Grosvenor M. Jones. . . Washington, Govt. print. off., 1916. 265 p. (Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. Special agents series—no. 119.) Involuntary servitude imposed upon seamen. Joint letter from the Secretary of commerce and the Secretary of Labor to the chairman of the Committee on commerce relative to Senate bill no. 4, entitled a bill to abolish the involuntary servitude imposed upon seamen in the merchant marine of the United States while in foreign ports . . . to prevent unskilled manning of American vessels, etc." Washington, [Govt. print. off.] 1913. 8 p. (63d Cong., Ist sess. Senate. Doc. 211) Serial 6537:

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Navigation laws. Comparative study of principal features of the laws of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Norway, France and Japan. Prepared by Grosvenor M. Jones, commercial agent, in collaboration with the Bureau of navigation and Steamboat inspection service. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1916. 190 p. (Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. Special agents series no. 114)

Committe on radiotelegraphy. Report to the Secretary of commerce of the Committee on radiotelegraphy-preliminary work for the International conference on safety at sea. [Washington, Govt. print. off., 1913] 6 p.

Division of publications. List of publications of the Department of commerce pertaining to the shipping industry. April 1, 1920. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1920. 27 p. Department circulars [including various regulations for Bureau of Navigation] p. 5, 7; Bureau of Navigation, p. 24-25.

Laws, statutes, etc. Navigation laws of the United States. 1919... Washington, Govt. print. off., 1920. 635 p.

Seamen's act... An act to promote the welfare of American seamen in the merchant marine of the United States; to abolish arrest and imprisonment as a penalty for desertion and to secure the abrogation of treaty provisions in relation thereto; and to promote safety at sea. Approved March 4, 1915. Amended by Merchant marine act, 1920. [Washington,

July 8, 1921] 16 p. (U. S. Department of Commerce. Department circular no. 256)

PERIODICAL ARTICLES

Adoption of continuous discharge book for seamen is generally approved; wherever introduced system has worked advantageously and minimized number of desertions. Nautical gazette, March 4, 1922, v. 102: 266-7.

Binns, J. R. Elimination of danger at sea. Cosmopolitan, July 1909, v. 47: 172-80.

Chamberlain, E. T. Safety in ocean navigation. Independent, Aug. 15, 1912, v. 73: 365-70.

Summary of the International conferences on maritime law and need of legislation to insure safety.

Emerson, C. Motor boats and the law. Outing, March 1910, v. 55: 768-72.

Full-crew seamen's law. Literary digest, March 20, 1915, v. 50: 596-7.

Henderson, Gerard. Seamen's law on safety at sea. New republic, Oct. 16, 1915, v. 4:279-81.

Henry, A. Radio personalities. I. Paul Godley. Radio broadcast, May, 1922, v. I: 40-42.

Description of his remarkable radio activities, his opinions of the Washington Radio Conference, 1922, and the need of better radio communication laws.

Huebner, G. G. Extent of regulation of ocean and inland water transportation by the federal government. American academy of political and social science, Philadelphia. Annals, Sept., 1914, v. 55: 17-47.

Navigation laws and government aid to merchant shipping. American economic review, Dec. 1916, v. 6:946-9.

Review of the reports on "Navigation Laws" and Government Aid to Merchant Shipping" issued by the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic commerce.

Kennedy, P. B. The Seamen's act. American academy of political and social science. Annals, Jan., 1916, v. 63: 232-43. McAllister, C. A. Proposed plans for revision of the navigation laws. Marine engineering, Dec., 1921, v. 26: 883-4. McLellan, A. G. Wanted: an American minister of marine. Atlantic, June, 1914, v. 113: 796-803.

Need of better maritime laws and a Minister of Marine to enforce them and when necessary alter them.

The mercantile marine, 1914-1921. Board of trade journal, (London) March 30, 1922, v. 108: 347.

Summary of annual report of the United States Commissioner of Navigation for 1921.

Parvin, Emerson E. The working of the Seamen's act. Academy of political science, New York. Proceedings, Oct., 1915, v.6: 113-28.

Pullman, R. W. Seamen's bill a law after 20 years' fight. Survey, March 13, 1915, v. 33: 645-6.

Secretary Redfield's strong words [for the protection of Pacific coast navigation] Sunset, Jan., 1915, v. 34: 45-46.

Wilhelm, Donald. Wanted: an American radio policy; the problem confronting our interests, amateur, commercial and governmental. Radio broadcast, May 1922, v. I: 29-33.

Report on results of Washington Radio Conference, 1922; the need of increased authority, force and funds for the Bureau of Navigation; and some account of the regulations governing international radio communication.

Williams, J. H. The sailor and the law [the seamen's bill of the 56th Congress] Independent, Nov. 15, 1900, v. 52: 2733-37.

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