Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2017
Section 34 of the Merchant Marine Act, commonly called the Jones Act, approved by the President, June 5, 1920, is as follows:
In the judgment of Congress, articles or provisions in treaties or conventions to which the United States is a party, which restrict the right of the United States to impose discriminating customs duties on imports entering the United States in foreign vessels and in vessels of the United States, and which also restrict the right of the United States to impose discriminatory tonnage dues on foreign vessels and on vessels of the United States entering the United States should be terminated, and the President is hereby authorized and directed within ninety days after this Act becomes law to give notice to the several governments, respectively, parties to such treaties or conventions, that so much thereof as imposes any such restriction on the United States will terminate on the expiration of such periods as may be required for the giving of such notice by the provisions of such treaties or conventions.
1 New York Times, September 27, 1920.
2 See Crandall, , Treaties, Their Making and Enforcement, 2nd edition, 458-462;Google Scholar Butler, , The Treaty-Making Power, 311, 384;Google Scholar Corwin, , The President's Control of Foreign Relations, 109-116;Google Scholar Moore, , International Law Digest, V, 771.Google Scholar
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5 Annals of Congress, II, 2120.
6 Works, IV, 98-120.
7 Pierce's “Sumner,” III, 425.
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