Chapter 39. To provide an American register for the steamer El Callao
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CHAP. 39.— An Act To provide an American register for the steamer El Callao.March 14, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,“Oneida”American register granted to foreign steamer “El Callao,” and name changed. That the Commissioner of Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built steamer El Callao, purchased and owned by B. F. Clyde, a citizen of the United States and of the firm of William P.
Clyde and Company, of New York, and repaired in United States ports, to be registered as a vessel of the United States, under the name of Oneida. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized andInspection. directed to cause the inspection of said vessel, steam boilers, steam pipes, and their appurtenances, and cause to be granted the usual 44 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, March 14, 1894.