Chapter 21.
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CHAP. 21.— An act to provide for an American register for the steamship Ozama, of New York City.Mar. 18, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,American register to foreign-built steamship Ozama. That the Commissioner of Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built steamship Ozama, owned at port of New York by William P. Clyde, an American citizen, and rebuilt by him at Wilmington, Delaware, to be registered as a vessel of the United States.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorizedInspection. and directed to authorize and direct the inspection of said steam-vessel, steam-boiler, steam-pipes, and the appurtenances 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 to be 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 of said boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances are found to be of sufficient strength and safety.
Approved, March 18, 1886.