Chapter 5. To provide an American register for the steam whaler Bowhead
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CHAP. 5.— An Act To provide an American register for the steam whaler Bowhead. January 31, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Commissioner of Whaler “Bowhead.” Granted American register. Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built steam whaler Bowhead, owned by John A. Cook, Preston B. Keith, F. B. Howard, E. T. Packard, D. W. Field, A. W. Barrows, George Bickford, W.
H. Bryant, and H. B. Madison, citizens of the United States, to be registered as a vessel of the United States whenever it shall be shown to the Commissioner of Navigation that the repairs put upon such vessel in the United States are equal to three-fourths of the cost of such vessel when so repaired. Approved, January 31, 1900.