04/28/1916
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"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..."
"And we ought not to borrow."
"Any vacancy occurring among such watch officers within two years from this date may be filled without regard to citizenship; but any vacancy which may occur thereafter shall be filled by a watch offic..."