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630 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Gus. 379, 380, 382. 1910. car in passen ers and carr ing fifty or more persons, `including riingirs and ciew, to leave oi: attempt to leave any port of the United Sqtiagles unless such steamer shall be equipped with an eflicient apparatus for radio-communication, in good working order, in charge of a person skilled in the use of such apparatus, which apparatus shall be capable of transmitting and receiving messages over a distance of tat least one mon hundred miles, night or day: Provided, That the provisions of this ` Act shall not apply to steamers plying only between ports less than two hundred mi es agart. _ _ otfeigggguf ****1 Sec. El. That for the purpose of this Act apparatus for rad1o·communigationtshtalllnot gmc deemed :10 bemellicrent unlesg tllieucompangr insta in i s a con rac in wri `n exc ange, an s a , in ac , exchangg, as far as may be physicabyplracticable, be determined by the master of the yessel, messages wit shore or ship stations using me ¤·»» M °°’§°2“’éS‘?r”i,Z€€§“d’°‘°€s“'“““"Zi,"§’“" an bei in ha . of D 1:.. emasroroe r ng cr ay mm such vessel which leaves or attempts tl? leave any port of Exe United States in violation of any of the provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction, be Hned in a sum not more than five thousand dollars, and NW ¤P°¤ *’°¤*L any such iine shall be alien upon such vessel, and such vessel may be libeled therefor in any district court of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such vessel shall arrive or depart, and the leaving or attempting to leave each and every port of the United States shall constitute a se rate offense. ¤¤¢¤*·¤¤¤·· . Sec. 4. That the gcretary of Commerce and Imbor shall‘make such regulations as may be necessary to secure the proper execution of this Act by collectors of customs and other officers of the Government. Approved, June 24, 1910. Jug? §g§;%i10· GHAP. 380.-An Act To provide for the retum of undelivered letters and for ' ' ‘ other purposes. [Public. Noi mi] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representativee of the United P°°““"°"'°`°· States if America in Congress assembled, That section thirty-nine hundre and thirty-nine of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is Uudeuvmdlemn hereby, amended to read as follows: Return is writer si "Sr·:c. 3939. When the writer of any letter on which the stage is ““‘° °‘ ‘°q“°“‘· prepaid shall indorse on the outside thereof his name and adclrifess, such etter shall not be advertised, but, after remaining uncalled for at the gs, ,s,,_$m,p_m, office to which it is directed the time the writer ma direct or the

  • '°°“"l°“- Postmaster-General prescribe, shall be returned to the writer without additional charge for postage, and if not then delivered, shall be

treated_as a dead letter. " Approved, June 24, 1910. June 25. 1910- · GHAR382.-—An Act Makin appropriations fort '

 ervation of certain public worksg0npr}ive};s and harborldf :ri)dRltd1i1glh(h'i·’p?ig;£ibl;ez?d presmnme, so. ess.]

_ Be it enacted the S enete and Home of Representatives of the United 8p*;;;;$i8·g·,_j1j}¤*M¤ States og Amenea in Congress assemble , That the following sums of money e, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any mone m the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately avail; able, and to be ezgpended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, complietion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter name : §°,§,,I{$,?§‘§§_“°‘ Ereakwater from Mount Desert to Porcupine Island, Bar Harbor, Maine: Continuing construction, twenty-Eve thousand dollars.