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The Anti-Smuggling Act of 1935

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

Philip C. Jessup
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , January 1937 , pp. 101 - 106
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1937

References

1 Public No. 238, 74th Congress.

2 74th Congress, First Session, Hearings on H. R. 5496, March 8-13 and May 1-2, 1935.

3 Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Panama, The Netherlands, Cuba, Belgium, Greece, Japan, Poland, Italy and Chile.

4 It is understood that several such presidential proclamations have been issued since the Act was passed.

5 See Jessup, The Law of Territorial Waters and Maritime Jurisdiction (1927), p. 301 ff.

6 The “hot pursuit” question involved in the I'm Alone case was not decided by the tribunal; see this JOURNAL, Vol. 29 (1935), p. 298.

7 See Hearings, op. cit., p. 38.

8 These joint regulations have been issued.

9 The Norwegian law, in providing for the punishment of persons smuggling goods into foreign countries declares, in Section 2: “Smuggling trade under this Law shall be deemed to include also the case of any ship whose cargo is unloaded beyond the customs boundary of another country under conditions which make it overwhelmingly probable that the intention is to smuggle such cargo.”

10 74th Cong. 1st Sess. Senate Keport No; 1036, Calendar No. 1083.