The Shipping act: an act to establish a United States Shipping board, for the purpose of encouraging, developing, and creating a naval auxiliary and navel reserve and a merchant marine, to meet the requirements of the commerce of the United States with its territories and possessions and with foreign countries
Subtitle: to regulate carriers by water in the foreign and interstate commerce of the United States; and for other purposes, approved September 7, 1916. Also the emergency shipping fund provision of the act, approved June 30, 1917, and the joint resolution authorizing the seizure of the german ships, approved may 12, 1917
By: Pub. by the United States Shipping board
Publisher: Govt. print. off.
Published: 1917
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47