navigation laws

Congress had already requested and failed to get power over navigation laws.

In effect, there is a set of national navigation laws (regulations) which conform to the international convention.

The ship had been sailing without a flag, a violation of British navigation laws.

Randolph's attempts to enforce the navigation laws eventually convinced the colony's general court that it needed to create its own mechanisms for their enforcement.

While under de facto American ownership, she would fly the British flag, due to the economies of the navigation laws of the period.

Under international Freedom of Navigation laws, aircraft carriers and other warships are recognized as sovereign territories in almost all of the ocean.

The Navigation Laws (1890)

Title 34 (Boating and Navigation Laws)

He was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison to codify the navigation laws of the United States.

Gordon S. Wood, in his more recent highly-acclaimed work on the radical transformation of colonial society, argued that the British navigation laws were working well.

The marine board found evidence of violation of various navigation laws on the parts of the master and pilot of the Capricorn.

The Authority investigates the causes of incidents involving shipping and commercial vessels and breaches of State or Commonwealth navigation laws.

Longworth retired from politics in 1859 and was named controller of customs and navigation laws and customs controller for Charlottetown.

The charter remained in force for 55 years, when, as a result of colonial insubordination with trade, tariff and navigation laws, Charles II revoked it in 1684.

South Carolina was not launched until 1793, however, due to the recalcitrance of state officials who were loath to support or enforce the United States' customs and navigation laws.

Adams stated it was necessary for the states to confer the power of passing navigation laws to Congress, or that the states themselves pass retaliatory acts against Great Britain.

McIsaac served on the Board of Works and was customs collector and controller of navigation laws for Port St. Peters.

The British Government repealed the navigation laws in 1849 and from 1850 on, Canada became the port of choice as Norwegian ships carried passengers to Canada and took lumber back to Norway.

A System of the Shipping and Navigation Laws of Great Britain, and of the Laws relating to Merchant Ships and Seamen and Maritime Contracts, 1st edition, 1820; 2nd edition, 1824.

Willson, the owner of a sloop who was licensed under federal navigation laws, broke through a dam that blocked his passage which was built by the Black-Bird Creek Marsh Co. and had been authorized to do so by Delaware law.

During the whole session Lord George vigorously upheld what he believed to be advantageous to the colonial and commercial interests of the country, and took an active part in the resistance which compelled the government to abandon their contemplated repeal of the navigation laws.

The natural advantages of established manufacturing in England, reinforced by the artificial ones provided by the Navigation Laws and related manifestations of the "colonial system", ensured that the high incomes of West Indian and Virginian planters created a growing market.

He was first brought into conflict with Henry Grattan and the popular party, in 1784, by his support of the proposal that the Irish parliament in return for the removal of restrictions on Irish trade should be bound to adopt the English navigation laws.

Since the officers of the two services had worked well together during the war, the Navy saw the opportunity to solve their manpower problems by absorbing the Coast Guard and its personnel leaving to the Treasury Department only the vessels necessary for customs duties and enforcement of navigation laws.