Chapter 1492. Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept the torpedo boats Stringham and Goldsborough
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CHAP. 1492.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept the torpedo boats Stringham and Goldsborough. March 3, 1905. [[S. 7042](/us/bill/58/s/7042).] [[Public, No. 225](/us/pl/58/225).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of theNavy.Torpedo boats “Stringham” and “Goldsborough” may be accepted.Vol. 29, p. 378. Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to waive the statutory speed requirement of thirty knots an hour for the torpedo boats Stringham and Goldsborough, authorized and contracted for under the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; to accept said vessels, after such trial as he may prescribe, andDeductions for speed failure. to make final settlement therefor under the contracts for their construction, subject to such deductions from the contract prices as may in his judgment be proper, if any, on account of speed failure, giving due consideration to the losses incurred by the contractors in endeavoring to fulfill their obligations where said losses were due to changes of modifications of plans or specifications ordered by the Department.
Approved, March 3, 1905.