Chapter 19.
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CHAP. 19.— An act to provide for an American register for the steamship Caroline Miller, of Baltimore, Maryland.Mar. 13, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,American register to foreign steamship Caroline Miller. That the Commissioner of Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built steamship Caroline Miller, owned at the port of Baltimore, State of Maryland, by F. C. Miller, an American citizen, and rebuilt by him at Baltimore, to be registered as a vessel of the United States.
Sec. 2. Inspection. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to authorize and direct the inspection of said steam-vessel, steam-boiler, steam-pipes, and the appartenances of said boiler, and cause to be granted the proper and usual certificate issued to steam-vessels of the merchant marine, without reference to the fact that said steam-boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances were not constructed pursuant to the laws of the United States, and were not constructed of iron stamped pursuant to said laws; and the tests tube applied on the inspection of said boiler, steam pipes, and appurtenances will be the same, in all respects as to strength and safety, as are required in the inspection of boilers constructed in the United States for marine purposes, save that the fact that said boiler, steam pipes, and appurtenances not being constructed pursuant to the requirements of the laws of the United States, and are of unstamped iron, shall not be an obstacle to the granting of the usual certificate if said boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances are found to be of sufficient strength and safety.
Approved, March 13, 1886.