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[CITE: 47USC30]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                       CHAPTER 2--SUBMARINE CABLES
 
Sec. 30. Definitions

    Unless the context of this chapter otherwise requires, the term 
``vessel'' shall be taken to mean every description of vessel used in 
navigation, in whatever way it is propelled; the term ``master'' shall 
be taken to include every person having command or charge of a vessel; 
and the term ``person'' to include a body of persons, corporate or 
incorporate. The term ``convention'' shall be taken to mean the 
International Convention for the Protection of Submarine Cables, made at 
Paris on the 14th day of May [March], 1884, and proclaimed by the 
President of the United States on the 22d day of May, 1885.

(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, Sec. 10, 25 Stat. 42.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 24, 26 of this title.
