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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · May 27, 1878 · Chapter 141

Chapter 141.

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CHAP. 141.— AN ACT to change the name of the steam-boat D. A. McDonald to Silver Wave.May 27, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Name of steamboat D. A. McDonald changed. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to allow the owner of the steamboat 1). A. McDonald, a vessel of American ownership, running on the Upper Mississippi River, to change the name of said boat to that of Silver Wave. Approved, May 27, 1878.
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