Chapter LXX. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the Admeasurement of Tonnage of Ships and Vessels of the United States,” approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.* Feb. 28, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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Chap. LXX.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the Admeasurement of Tonnage of Ships and Vessels of the United States,” approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.* Feb. 28, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the act entitled “An act Cabins, &c., above deck not to he measured for tonnageto regulate the admeasurement of tonnage of ships and vessels of the United States,” approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, shall be so construed that no part of any ship or vessel shall be admeasured or registered for tonnage that is used for cabins or state-rooms, and constructed entirely above the first deck, which is not a deck to the hull.
Approved, February 28, 1865.