Chapter 145. To provide an American register for the barge Black Diamond
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CHAP. 145.— An Act To provide an American register for the barge Black Diamond. February 4, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Commissioner of Navigation “Thomas S. Falck,” Barge. Granted American register and name changed to “Black Diamond.”is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built barge Thomas S. Falck, owned by the Mobile Coal Company, of Mobile, Alabama, a corporation under the laws of Alabama, to be registered as a vessel of the United States under the name of Black Diamond. Approved, February 4, 1897.