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United States federal law
Cutter Service Act
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Other short titles
| Cutter Service Act, 1914
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Long title
| An Act to provide for the construction of two revenue cutters.
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Nicknames
| Revenue Cutters Service Act of 1914
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Enacted by
| the
63rd United States Congress
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Effective
| June 24, 1914
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Public law
| Pub. L.
Tooltip Public Law (United States)
63?118
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Statutes at Large
| 38
Stat.
387
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- Introduced
in the Senate as S. 4377 by
John H. Bankhead
(
D
?
AL
) on February 5, 1914
- Passed the Senate
on April 28, 1914 (Passed)
- Passed the House
on May 13, 1914 (Passed)
- Signed into law
by President
Woodrow Wilson
on June 24, 1914
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Cutter Service Act, 1914
is a United States federal statute authorizing the construction of two revenue
cutter
vessels as related to medical and surgical relief for American
vessel crews
engaged in the deep-sea fisheries. The two revenue cutters provided a class of service as a
steam-powered vessel
encompassing the
coastal geography
of the
Gulf of Mexico
and
Maine
.
The
act of Congress
emphasized providing otherwise-unobtainable medical services for seamen on board American
fishing fleets
. It authorized the
commandant of the Revenue Cutter Service
to "detail for duty on revenue cutters such
surgeons
and other persons of the
Public Health Service
as ... necessary."
As a result of the act, many cutter vessels were fitted out as hospital ships and "relieved from the regular duties as normally performed by cutters" to cruise the
fishing banks
off the U.S. coastlines as floating hospitals.
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