Chapter 518.
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CHAP. 518.— An act to provide American registers for the steamers Montauk and Mineola.March 3, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,“Montauk” and “Mineola.” That the Commissioner of Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause American registers granted to.the foreign-built steamers Montauk and Mineola, purchased and wholly owned by American citizens and repaired by them, to be registered as vessels of the United States.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorizedInspection, etc. and directed to authorize and direct the inspection of said vessel, steam boiler, steam pipes, and the appurtenances of said boiler, and cause to be granted the register 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 in 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 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.
Received by the President February 19, 1891.