Chapter 2566. Concerning foreign-built dredges
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CHAP. 2566.— An Act Concerning foreign-built dredges. May 28, 1906. [[H. R. 395](/us/bill/34/hr/395).] [[Public, No. 185](/us/pl/34/185).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Foreign-built dredges.Restriction on use of in United States waters.Documenting dredges used at Galveston authorized. That a foreign-built dredge shall not, under penalty of forfeiture, engage in dredging in the United States unless documented as a vessel of the United States.
Sec. 2. That the Commissioner of Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to document as vessels of the United States the foreign- built dredges Holm. Leviathan, Nereus, and Triton, owned by American citizens and now employed at Galveston, and the dredge Sea Lion, now under construction abroad for use at Galveston, on which an American citizen, the contractor at Galveston, has an option. Approved, May 28, 1906.