Chapter 190. To provide an American register for the steamer Oceano, of Now York, New York
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CHAP. 190.— An Act To provide an American register for the steamer Oceano, of Now York, New York.August 3, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Commissioner of“Oceano.”American register granted to foreign built steamer. Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built steamer Oceano, purchased and owned by Alfred S. Lascelles of New York City, New York, and repaired in American ports, 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 vessel, steam boilers, steam pipes, and the appurtenances of said boilers, 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 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 to be applied in the inspection of said boilers, steam pipes, and appurtenances will be. the same in all respects as to strength and safety as arc required in the inspection of boilers constructed in the United States for marine purposes, save the fact that said boilers, 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 boilers, steam pipes, and appurtenances are found to be of sufficient strength and safety.
Approved, August 3, 1894.