Chapter 167. For the protection of yacht owners and shipbuilders of the United States
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CHAP. 167.— An Act For the protection of yacht owners and shipbuilders of the United States. February 5, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section forty-two hundred Yachts.and sixteen of the Revised Statutes be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows: "“Sec. 4216. Yachts, belonging to a regularly organized yacht club of Exemptions to foreign yacht clubs. R. S., sec. 4216. p. 812, amended.any foreign nation which shall extend like privileges to the yachts of the United States, shall have the privilege of entering or leaving any port of the United States without entering or clearing at the custom-house thereof or paying tonnage tax: *Provided,* That the privileges of this *Proviso.* Not extended to yachts used, etc., by citizens.section shall not extend to any yacht built outside of the United States and owned, chartered, or used by a citizen of the United States, unless such ownership or charter was acquired prior to the passage of this Act.”" Sec. 2.
That section eleven of an Act, entitled “An Act to abolish Foreign-built yachts owned, etc., by citizens to pay tonnage tax. Vol. 24. p. 81.certain fees for official services to American vessels, and to amend the laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen and owners of vessels, and for other purposes,” approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, so far as the same exempts any yacht built outside of the United States and owned, chartered, or used by a citizen of the United States, from the payment of tonnage taxes, is hereby repealed.
Received by the President, January 25, 1897. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, 512and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]