Public Law 60–82

That section one of the Act

Navigation.

Deductions from gross tonnage United States vessels.

Vol. 28. p. 742, amended.

approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An Act to amend section one of chapter three hundred and ninetyeight of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled ‘An Act to provide for deductions from the gross tonnage of vessels of the United States,’” is hereby amended by inserting after paragraph (h) the following words:

“The cubical contents of the hatchways shall be obtained by multiplying

Cubical contents of hatchways, etc.

the length and breadth together and the product by the mean depth taken from the top of beam to the under side of the hatch. From the aggregate tonnage of the hatchways there shall be deducted one-half of one per cent of the gross tonnage and the remainder only shall be added to the gross tonnage of the ship exclusive of the tonnage of the hatchways.”

Sec. 2.

That said section is further amended by inserting at the end of the fourth paragraph after paragraph (i) the following words:

“From the gross tonnage there shall be deducted any other space

Deduct ions for water-ballast space.

Vol. 28. p. 743, mended.

adapted only for water ballast certified by the collector not to be available for the carriage of cargo, stores, supplies, or fuel.”