Volume 39
Public Law 64–55
Authorizing the Commissioner of Navigation to cause the steamship Republic to be enrolled and licensed as a vessel of the United States.
Approved February 14, 1917
Statutory text
An Act
Authorizing the Commissioner of Navigation to cause the steamship Republic to be enrolled and licensed as a vessel of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Commissioner of Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the steamship Walkure, admitted to American registry as the steamship Republic, which was sunk in the harbor of Papeete, Tahiti, raised and repaired by American enterprise, capital, and labor, to be enrolled and licensed as a vessel of the United States.
Approved, February 14, 1917.