09/29/1918
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"Whereas it is desirable to take precautions to insure the enforcement of said order insofar as it relates to the transmission of code and cipher messages by high-powered stations capable of trans-Atla..."
"We shall pay the bill, though we did not deliberately incur it."
"All foreign-built ships which shall be admitted to United States registry under said Act may retain the watch officers employed thereon, without regard to citizenship, for seven years from this date, ..."
"In pursuance of the authority conferred upon the President of the United States by Section 2 of the Act approved August 18, 1914, entitled 'An Act to provide for the admission of foreign-built ships t..."