Public Law 54–167

That section forty-two hundred

Yachts.

and sixteen of the Revised Statutes be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:

“Sec. 4216.

Yachts, belonging to a regularly organized yacht club of

Exemptions to foreign yacht clubs.

R. S., sec. 4216. p. 812, amended.

any foreign nation which shall extend like privileges to the yachts of the United States, shall have the privilege of entering or leaving any port of the United States without entering or clearing at the custom-house thereof or paying tonnage tax: Provided, That the privileges of this

Proviso.

Not extended to yachts used, etc., by citizens.

section shall not extend to any yacht built outside of the United States and owned, chartered, or used by a citizen of the United States, unless such ownership or charter was acquired prior to the passage of this Act.”

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Sec. 2.

That section eleven of an Act, entitled “An Act to abolish

Foreign-built yachts owned, etc., by citizens to pay tonnage tax.

Vol. 24. p. 81.

certain fees for official services to American vessels, and to amend the laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen and owners of vessels, and for other purposes,” approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, so far as the same exempts any yacht built outside of the United States and owned, chartered, or used by a citizen of the United States, from the payment of tonnage taxes, is hereby repealed.