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Public Law 54–396
To provide an American register for the steamer Menemsha.
Approved June 10, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
To provide an American register for the steamer Menemsha.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Commissioner of
“Menemsha.”
Granted American register.
Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built steamer Menemsha, owned by Charles W. Hogan, a citizen of the United States, to be registered as a vessel of the United States.
Sec. 2.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and
Inspection.
directed to cause the inspection of said vessel, steam boilers, steam pipes, and their appurtenances, and cause to be granted the usual certificate issued to steam vessels of the merchant marine without reference to the fact that said steam boilers, steam pipes, and appurtenances were not constructed pursuant to the laws of the United States, and were not constructed of iron stamped pursuant to said laws; and the tests in the inspection of said boilers, steam pipes, and appurtenances shall be the same in all respects as to strength and safety as are required in the inspection of boilers constructed in the United States for marine purposes.
Approved, .