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57TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.. REPORT
1st Session. No. 739.
LONDON LANDING CHARGES.
MARCH 3, 1902.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Mr. FLETCHER, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com-
merce, submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 9059.]
The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, io whom was
referred the bill (H. R. 9059) to amend an act entitled An act relat-
ing to navigation of vessels, bills of lading, and to certain obligations,
duties, and rights in connection with the carriage of property, report
the same back to the House without amendment and with the recom-
mendation that it do pass.
This bill proposes to amend the first section of the act referred to,
commonly known as the Harter Act, so that in addition to the
things therein declared to be unlawful it shall also be unlawful for the
owner of any vessel transporting property from the ports of the
United States to foreign ports to insert in the contract of shipment or
bill of lading any covenant or agreement imposing upon the consignor
or consignee any charge, in addition to the freight charge, for the sort-
ing and delivering of merchandise on the quay or dock, the payment
of which under the law of the country governing the port is imposed
upon the manager, agent, master, or owner of the vessel.
The section of the Harter Act it is proposed to thus amend makes
it unlawful for steamship companies to insert in any bill of lading or
other contract for the shipment of merchandise any clause relieving
them from the payment of any damages which, in the absence of such
clause, at common law, they would be liable for.
EFFECT OF BILL LIMITED TO PORT OF LONDON.
The bill herewith reported merely enlarges the scope of this section,
making it unlawful also for steamship companies to insert any clause,
covenant, or agreement in a bill of lading imposing upon the consignor
or consignee the payment of any charge connected with the unloading
of their vessels for which under the law of the country to which the
goods are shipped the steamship companies are liable.
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