Chapter 180. To provide a register for the steamer Goldsworthy
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CHAP. 180.— An Act To provide a register for the steamer Goldsworthy.August 1, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,“Goldsworthy.”American register granted to foreign-built steamer. That the Commissioner of Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built steamer Goldsworthy, purchased and owned by The New Orleans, Belize Royal Mail and Central American Steamship Company, Limited, and repaired in American ports, to be registered as a vessel of the United States.
Sec. 2. The at the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized andInspection, etc. directed to cause the inspection of said vessel, her steam boilers, steam pipes, and their appurtenances, and cause to be granted the usual certificate issued to steam vessels of the merchant marine, without reference to the fact that said steam boilers, 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 in the inspection of said boilers, steam pipes, and appurtenances shall 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.
Approved, August 1, 1894.