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..... secretary of the treasury was authorized to cause yachts used and employed exclusively as vessels of pleasure to be enrolled and licensed as vessels which were not required to qualify at the customhouse, and this act was amended by ..... the words, "and by sea to foreign ports," and, as thus amended, was carried forward into section 4214 of the revised statutes. the court of appeals was of opinion that yachts licensed under the statute of 1848 were exclusively coasting vessels, and that as, by the act of 1870, they might be permitted to page 150 u. s. 696 ..... ground that she was "in legal character, and by nomenclature, a coasting steam vessel,'" and that even if this might "not be absolutely true of the yosemite in all situations, it was nevertheless true of her when navigating inland waters." by the first section of the act of congress of august 7, 1848, 9 stat. 274, c. 141, the .....
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..... the cause is remanded to that court with directions to dismiss the bill. mr. justice harlan, with whom concurred mr. justice brown, dissenting. the interstate commerce act, as amended march 2, 1889, requires every common carrier, subject to its provisions, to print and keep open to public inspection schedules showing its rates and charges for the ..... from the places of shipment to the places of final destination, and that in fixing said rates, it was controlled by an ocean competition by sailing and steam vessels by way of the isthmus and around the horn, and also, page 162 u. s. 217 to some extent, by a competition through the canada route ..... ports, issued under common arrangement between the defendants and such vessels and steamship lines and foreign railroads for continuous carriage at joint rates from the point or port of shipment to chicago and other western points, the defendants' share of such through rate for the inland transportation being lower than its regular tariff rates, in some .....
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..... including canal boats, barges, and lighters. the fourth section of the act of 1886 also regulates page 141 u. ..... course that congress, having already, by the act of 1851, amended the maritime law by giving the benefit of a limited liability to the owners of all vessels navigating the oceans and great lakes of the country, and withholding it from the owners of vessels used in rivers or inland navigation, was perfectly competent to abolish that ..... by an amendment made in 1871. the final words of the act above quoted constitute section 4289 of the revised statutes, which, as before stated, was amended by the act of 1886 so as to make the limited liability act apply to all kinds of vessels, not only seagoing vessels, but those used on lakes or rivers, or in inland navigation, .....
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..... . . . and to this end may hail and stop such vessel . . . and use all necessary force to compel compliance." 46 stat. 747, as amended, 19 u.s.c. 1581(a). [ footnote 1 ] we are asked to decide whether the fourth amendment is offended when customs officials, acting pursuant to this page 462 u. s. 581 statute and without ..... . s. 608 patrol traffic stops of vehicles are unconstitutional in any setting. there is no justification for departing from that rule in our considerably less extensive system of inland navigable waterways. [ footnote 2/10 ] checkpoints aside, there is no apparent reason why random stops are really necessary for adequate law enforcement. in prouse, we noted ..... . at 428 u. s. 545 . distinguishing our holding in united states v. brignoni-ponce, supra, we said: "a requirement that stops on major routes inland always be based on reasonable suspicion would be impractical because the flow of traffic tends to be too heavy to allow the particularized study of a given car that would .....
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..... june 21, 2010] justice sotomayor, with whom justice stevens and justice ginsburg join, dissenting. in my view, the carmack amendment to the interstate commerce act (ica), 7, 34 stat. 595, plainly applies to the inland leg of a multimodal shipment traveling on an international through bill of lading. unless they have permissibly contracted around carmack s ..... to union pacific for rail carriage to the final destinations. in march and april 2005, the cargo owners brought four different container shipments to k line vessels in chinese ports. all parties seem to assume that k line safely transported the cargo across the pacific ocean to california. the containers were then loaded ..... . 08 1554 (union pacific) for rail shipment in the united states. the cargo was shipped in k line vessels to california and then loaded onto a union pacific train. a derailment along the inland route allegedly destroyed the cargo. ultimately, the federal district court granted the motion of union pacific and k line to .....
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..... as much as if they were page 422 u. s. 197 a part of its land territory, and the coastal nation has the privilege even to exclude foreign vessels altogether. beyond the inland waters, and measured from their seaward edge, is a belt known as the marginal, or territorial, sea. within it, the coastal nation may exercise extensive control, ..... in the gulf of mexico or the straits of florida); 80 stat. 1091, 16 u.s.c. 1151 (taking fur seals in the north pacific ocean); 86 stat. 1032, as amended, 16 u.s.c. 1372 (1970 ed., supp. iii) (taking marine mammals on the high seas). see also skiriotes v. florida, 313 u. s. 69 (1941). our ..... district court, was patently insufficient in scope to establish historic title to cook inlet as inland waters. only one of the fishing regulations relied upon by the court, the alien fishing act, treated foreign vessels any page 422 u. s. 198 differently than it did american vessels. that act, however, did not purport to apply beyond the three-mile limit in cook inlet. .....
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..... facility in the statutory provision and in the understanding of the cbec, which administers the customs act, an inland container depot was actually an inland port. there is also no dispute that even in 1983 amendments had been made to the customs act by treating the inland container depots as part of the customs port for purpose of customs formalities and clearances. in ..... word carries with it a maritime connotation. the icds are land-locked and it is nobody's case that they are located in such a place where ships or vessels have direct access to them. the goods which are either removed from or brought into the icds are brought or taken away either by railway wagons or by container ..... . v. uoi, 1996 (86) elt 15. the bombay high court has explained the word port as under:- port is a place for loading and unloading of cargoes of vessels. the word port must be construed in its usual and limited popular or commercial sense as a place where ships are in the habit of coming for the purpose of .....
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..... pacific co., also on writ of certiorari to the circuit court of appeals for the second circuit. [ footnote 1 ] "pilot rules for certain inland waters," etc., effective, as amended, may 1, 1912. [ footnote 2 ] inland rules, act of june 7, 1897, arts.19, 21-23, 27, 30 stat. 101, 102; 33 u.s.c. 204, 206-208, 212. ..... in extremis for which she is not liable. the inspectors' prohibition against "cross signals" found in rule ii was originally applicable to "vessels approaching each other from opposite directions," [ footnote 5 ] but was amended so that its terms apply to crossing situations as well. [ footnote 6 ] the fulton, supra. but the court of appeals, in ..... prevent immediate compliance with each other's signals, the misunderstanding or objection shall be at once made apparent by blowing the danger signal, and both steam vessels shall be stopped and backed if necessary, until signals for passing with safety are made and understood." petitioner says that these rules are not inconsistent with .....
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..... account, because clearly that provision relates only to taxes imposed by the general government. it is a fallacy also to argue that the vessels, crews, and passengers, when within the territory of a state, are not amendable to the state laws in these respects, because they are enrolled as belonging to the united states, and their flag is the flag ..... had nothing left to act upon but the person simply, nor any means of collecting the tax from passengers, it was levied on ..... ship. the property of passengers could not be taxed or seized, being expressly and affirmatively protected by the act of 1799. it was an import, and whilst it continued in form of an import, could be landed and transferred by the owners inland. this is the effect of the decision in brown v. state of maryland. as the state power .....
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..... railway, or other adjoining area customarily used by an employer in loading, unloading, repairing, or building a vessel. [ footnote 21 ]" at the same time, congress amended the definition of the persons covered page 432 u. s. 264 by the act. previously, so long as a work-related injury occurred on navigable waters and the injured worker was not ..... it carries goods destined for several consignees, it must be unloaded or "stripped" and the goods sorted according to consignee. this operation may be done at the waterfront or inland. the analogous process during the loading phase is called "stuffing." app. 889, 998, 101-103, 10107; brief for federal respondent 7 n. 4; brief for national ..... inc. v. perdue, 539 f.2d at 540. it affirmed compensation awards to a worker securing a vehicle to a railway car in preparation for its transportation inland and to a worker unloading bales of cotton from a wagon and stacking them in the warehouse to await future placement on a ship. the awards were affirmed .....
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