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| Long title | An Act to carry into effect the International Convention of the fourteenth of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for the protection of submarine cables. |
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| Nicknames | Protection of Submarine Cable Act of 1888 |
| Enacted by | the 50th United States Congress |
| Effective | February 29, 1888 |
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| Public law | Pub. L. 50–17 |
| Statutes at Large | 25 Stat. 41 |
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| Titles amended | 47 U.S.C.: Telegraphy |
| U.S.C. sections created | 47 U.S.C. ch. 2 § 1 et seq. |
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Submarine Cable Act of 1888 is a United States federal statute defining penalties for intentional and unintentional disturbances of submarine communications cable in international waters. The Act of Congress acknowledge the Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cable of 1884 necessitating the international cooperation for the safeguard of international communication cables placed on the ocean floor.[1]
The legislation was passed by the 50th United States Congressional session and confirmed as a federal law by the 24th President of the United States Grover Cleveland on February 29, 1888.[2]
- ^ "Multilateral Treaty - Protection of Submarine Cables of 1884" (PDF). U.S. Treaties and International Agreements: 1776-1949. United States Library of Congress. March 14, 1884.
- ^ Peters, Gerhard; Woolley, John T. "Grover Cleveland: "Special Message," January 9, 1888". The American Presidency Project. University of California - Santa Barbara.