Chapter 3. Authorizing the Commissioner of Navigation to cause the sailing vessel Golden Gate to be registered as a vessel of the United States
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CHAP. 3.— An Act Authorizing the Commissioner of Navigation to cause the sailing vessel Golden Gate to be registered as a vessel of the United States. December 21, 1916.[[H. R. 8816](/us/bill/64/hr/8816).][[Public, No. 286](/us/pl/64/286).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Commissioner of“Golden Gate.”American register granted to foreign built sailing vessel. Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the sailing vessel Golden Gate, rebuilt at San Francisco, California, from the wreck of the sailing vessel Golden Gate, wrecked near the harbor of Montevideo, Uruguay, and abandoned by her owners as a total wreck, to be registered as a vessel of the United States whenever it shall be shown to the Commissioner of Navigation that the cost of rebuilding said vessel in the United States amounted to three times the actual cost of said wreck and that the vessel is wholly owned by citizens of the United States.
Approved, December 21, 1916.