Volume 22
Public Law 47–67
to amend section forty-four hundred and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to license fees of officers of steam vessels.
Approved April 5, 1882
Statutory text
An Act
to amend section forty-four hundred and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to license fees of officers of steam vessels.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That Section forty four hundred and fifty eight of the Revised Statutes be, and is hereby, amended by striking out of the paragraph, beginning in the eighth line thereof, the following words, that is to say “Each Master, chief engineer, and first class pilot licensed as herein provided shall pay for every certificate granted by any inspector or inspectors the sum of ten dollars and every chief Mate, engineer, and pilot of an inferior grade shall pay for every certificate so granted the sum of five dollars” and insert in lieu thereof the following “Each Master, engineer, pilot, and Mate licensed as herein provided shall pay for every certificate granted by any inspector or inspectors the sum of fifty cents”
Approved, April 5, 1882.