Chapter 64. to provide for an American register for a steamer to be named San Benito, owned by a corporation of the State of California
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CHAP. 64.— An Act to provide for an American register for a steamer to be named San Benito, owned by a corporation of the State of California.April 5, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,“San Benito.” American register Eranted to foreign built steamer “Kimberley,” and name changed to. That the Commissioner of Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built steamer Kimberley, owned at the port of San Francisco, State of California, by the Pacific Improvement Company, a corporation of said State of California, and now rebuilding in the United States, to be registered as a vessel of the United States, under the name of San Benito.
Sec. 2. Inspection of boilers, etc., and certification. 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 appurtenances of said boiler, and causeto 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 Tests.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 if said boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances are found to be of sufficient strength and safety.
Approved, April 5, 1890.