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  6. CHAPTER 2—SUBMARINE CABLES (§§ 21 – 39)


CHAPTER 2—SUBMARINE CABLES (§§ 21 – 39)


  • § 21. Submarine cables; willful injury to; punishment
  • § 22. Negligent injury to submarine cables; punishment
  • § 23. Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life excepted
  • § 24. Vessels laying cables; signals; avoidance of buoys
  • § 25. Fishing vessels; duty to keep nets from cables
  • § 26. Duties of commanders of warships
  • § 27. Offending vessels to show nationality
  • § 28. Penalties not to bar suits for damages
  • § 29. Master of offending vessel punishable
  • § 30. Definitions
  • § 31. Summary trials
  • § 32. Application
  • § 33. Jurisdiction and venue of actions and offenses
  • § 34. Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting United States with foreign country; necessity for
  • § 35. Withholding or revoking of licenses by President; terms and conditions of licenses
  • § 36. Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction
  • § 37. Violations; punishment
  • § 38. “United States” defined
  • § 39. Amendment, modification, etc., of rights granted
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