Chapter 398. to provide for deductions from tho gross tonnage of vessels of the United StatesAugust 5, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deductions from gross tonnage of vessels of United States
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CHAP. 398.— An Act to provide for deductions from tho gross tonnage of vessels of the United StatesAugust 5, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deductions from gross tonnage of vessels of United States.R. S. 4153, 799, amended. That section forty-one hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by inserting before the last paragraph thereof the following words:
" That from the gross tonnage of every vessel of the United States there shall be deducted the tonnage of the spaces or compartments occupied by or appropriated to the use of the crew of the vessel, but the Not to exceed five per centum for crew space.deduction for crew-space shall not, in any case, exceed five per centum of the gross tonnage. And in every such vessel propelled by steam or other power requiring engine room there shall also be deducted from the gross tonnage of the vessel the tonnage of the space or spaces actually occupied by or required to be inclosed for the proper working of the boilers and machinery, including the shaft trunk or alley’ in screw-steamers, with the addition in the ease of vessels propelled with paddle-wheels of fifty-per centum, and in the case of vessels propelled by Measurement of vessel.screws of seventy-five per centum of the tonnage of such space, but in no case shall the deductions from the gross tonnage exceed fifty per centum of such tonnage; and the proper deductions from the gross tonnage having been made, the remainder shall be deemed the net or register tonnage of such vessels.
“That the register or other official certificate of the tonnage orCertificate of measurement. nationality’ of a vessel of the United States in addition to what is now required by law to be expressed therein, shall state separately’ the deductions made from the gross tonnage, and shall also state the net or register tonnage of the vessel. But the outstanding registers or enrollments of vessels of the United States shall not be rendered void by the addition of such new statement of her tonnage, unless voluntarily surrendered, but the same may be added to the outstanding document, or by an appendix thereto, with a certificate of a collector of customs that the original estimate of tonnage is amended.
” " Sec. 2. That section forty-one hundred and fifty-four of the RevisedR. S. 4154, 801, repealed. Statutes be, and hereby is, repealed, and instead thereof the following is substituted, to wit: " “Sec. 4154. Whenever it is made to appear to the Secretary of the Treasury thatMeasurement of foreign vessels. the rules concerning the measurement for tonnage of vessels of the United States have been substantially adopted by the government of any foreign country, he may direct that the vessels of such foreign country be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certifi- 301 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 398, 399, 431, 432. 1882. cates of register or other national papers, and thereupon it shall not be necessary for such vessels to be remeasured at any port in the United States; and when it shall be necessary to ascertain the tonnage of any vessel not a vessel of the United States, the said tonuage shall be ascertained in the manner provided by law for the measurement of vessels of the United States.” " Sec. 3. “That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directedFees, etc., for readmeasurement. to make all needful regulations to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and he shall establish and promulgate a proper scale of fees to be paid for the readmeasurement of the spaces to be deducted from the gross tonnage of a vessel, on the basis of the last sentence of section forty-one hundred and eighty-six ofR.
S.4186, 807. the Revised Statutes, beginning with the words “But the charge for the measurement.” Approved, August 5, 1882.