Amendments to Merchant Shipping Statutes: Intercoastal Shipping Act Penalties, Terms of Office of Maritime Commissioners, Mobile Trade Fairs, Construction Differential Subsidy Ceiling, War Risk Insurance, Waiver of Coastwise Laws: Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session on S. 1141..., S. 1348..., S. 1772..., H.R. 4346..., H.R. 4526..., H.R. 6164. May25, 27, 1965

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Page 81 - ... what are the purpose and the primary effect of the enactment? If either is the advancement or inhibition of religion then the enactment exceeds the scope of legislative power as circumscribed by the Constitution. That is to say that to withstand the strictures of the Establishment Clause there must be a secular legislative purpose and a primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion.
Page 29 - ... whenever it appears to the Secretary that such insurance adequate for the needs of the waterborne commerce of the United States cannot be obtained on reasonable terms and conditions from companies authorized to do an insurance business in a State of the United States.
Page 72 - No foreign vessel shall transport passengers between ports or places in the United States either directly or by way of a foreign port, under a penalty of $200 for each passenger so transported and landed.
Page 79 - Mr. Chairman, I wish to express my appreciation to you and the members of the Subcommittee...
Page 16 - Vessel may be involved ; (ii) upon the outbreak of war (whether there be a declaration of war or not) between any of the following countries : — United Kingdom, United States of America, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the People's Republic of China; (iii) in the event of the Vessel being requisitioned, either for title or use.

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