Volume 54
Public Law 76–784
To repeal sections 4588 and 4591 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
Approved October 9, 1940
Statutory text
AN ACT
To repeal sections 4588 and 4591 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That sections 4588 and 4591 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. C., title 46, secs. 686 and 687) be, and they are hereby, repealed.
Sec. 2.
All certificates heretofore issued to seamen under the authority of section 4588 of the Revised Statutes of the United States are hereby declared void.
Approved, October 9, 1940.