Volume 29
Public Law 54–145
To provide an American register for the barge Black Diamond.
Approved February 4, 1897
Statutory text
An Act
To provide an American register for the barge Black Diamond.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Commissioner of Navigation
“Thomas S. Falck,” Barge.
Granted American register and name changed to “Black Diamond.”
is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built barge Thomas S. Falck, owned by the Mobile Coal Company, of Mobile, Alabama, a corporation under the laws of Alabama, to be registered as a vessel of the United States under the name of Black Diamond.
Approved, .