893.825/22: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham)
Washington, December
14, 1931—1 p.m.
Your December 11, 5 p.m. Congress has left to the several States the general power to regulate pilotage. See revised statutes Section 4235.
Under respective State laws pilotage required in principal United States ports for all vessels engaged in foreign trade.
Stimson