Chapter 464. To provide an American register for the steamer Enterprise
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CHAP. 464.— An Act To provide an American register for the steamer Enterprise. February 23, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Steamer Enterprise. Granted American register. That the Commissioner of Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built steamer St. Georg, wrecked in Cuban waters, and purchased and wholly owned by the Merritt and Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Company, of New York City, incorporated under the laws of West Virginia, and now under repair by said company, to be registered as a vessel of the United States under the name of Enterprise, whenever it shall be shown to the Commissioner of Navigation that the repairs and salvage on the vessel amount to three times the actual cost of the wreck to her owners.
Approved, February 23, 1901.