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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 39 STAT. · February 14, 1917 · Chapter 56

Chapter 56. To authorize the change of name of the steamer Frank H

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CHAP. 56.— An Act To authorize the change of name of the steamer Frank H. Peavey to William A. Reiss. February 14, 1917.[[S. 7779](/us/bill/64/s/7779).][[Public, No. 311](/us/pl/64/311).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * “Frank H. Peavey,” steamer.Name changed to “William A. Reiss.” That the Commissioner of Navigation is hereby authorized and directed, upon application of the owner, The Reiss Steamship Company, of Duluth, Minnesota, to change the name of the steamer Frank H.
Peavey, official number one hundred and twenty-one thousand one hundred and eighty-seven, to the William A. Reiss. Approved, February 14, 1917.
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