• § 21. Submarine cables; willful injury to; punishment

• § 22. Negligent injury to submarine cables; punishment

• § 23. Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life excepted

• § 24. Vessels laying cables; signals; avoidance of buoys

• § 25. Fishing vessels; duty to keep nets from cables

• § 26. Duties of commanders of warships

• § 27. Offending vessels to show nationality

• § 28. Penalties not to bar suits for damages

• § 29. Master of offending vessel punishable

• § 30. Definitions

• § 31. Summary trials

• § 32. Application

• § 33. Jurisdiction and venue of actions and offenses

• § 34. Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting United States with foreign country; necessity for

• § 35. Withholding or revoking of licenses by President; terms and conditions of licenses

• § 36. Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction

• § 37. Violations; punishment

• § 38. “United States” defined

• § 39. Amendment, modification, etc., of rights granted