...February 13, 1893.] SEC. 1. That it shall not be lawful for the manager, agent, master, or owner of any vessel transporting merchandise or property from or between ports of the United States [Philippine Islands] and foreign ports to insert in any bill of lading or shipping document any clause,...

...shipping receipts shall be null and void and of no effect. "SEC. 2. That it shall not be lawful for any vessel transporting merchandise or property from or between ports of the United States of America and foreign ports, her owner, master, agent, or manager, to insert in any bill of lading...

...it shall be unlawful for the manager, agent, master or owner of any vessel transporting merchandise from or between ports of the United States and foreign...any bill of lading or shipping document any clause or agreement whereby any such persons shall 1)6 at liberty to impose on such merchandise any loading,...

...provides as follows: "Tluit it shall licit be lawful for the manager, agent, master or owner of any vessel transporting merchandise or property from or...covenant or agreement whereby it. he. or they shall ho relieved from liability for loss or damage arising from negligence, fault or failure in proper loading,...

...2946]), \vhicb provides that any clause of a bill of lading or shipping receipt for the transportation of merchandise or property from or between ports of the United States and foreign ports, whereby the vessel owner, master, or agent shall be relieved from liability for loss or damage arising...

...which case the owner would have been exempt from liability by section 3 of the Harter act, but was "loss or damage arising from negligence, fault or failure in proper loading, storage, custody, care or proper delivery of merchandise under section 1 of that act, in which case...

...of said vessel," within the 3d section of that act. Second. Do the words, in the 1st section, "any vessel transporting merchandise or property from or...between ports of the United States and foreign ports," include a foreign Tessel transporting merchandise from a foreign port to a port of the United Stalest...

...is expressly provided that it shall be unlawful for any vessel transporting property or merchandise from or between ports of the United States and foreign ports to insert in any bills of lading or shipping documents any covenant or agreement whereby the obligation of the owner...

...sailing. On the other hand, it is to be declared unlawful for any common carrier, either by land or water, to insert in any Bill of Lading or shipping document any clause or agreement whereby the carrier shall be relieved from liability for loss or damage arising from negligence...

...delivery which is imposed by section I of the Harter act, that forbids any agreement whereby he may be relieved from liability for loss or damage arising from negligence, fault, or failure. The appellee also contends that the stipulation in the bill of lading that "the carrier shall have...