Volume 68
Public Law 83–757
To amend the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 to provide for the charter of passenger ships in the domestic trade.
Approved August 31, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 to provide for the charter of passenger ships in the domestic trade.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 5 (f) (1) of the Merchant Ship Sales Act, as amended, is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof a comma and the following: ”and may charter any war-built passenger vessel owned by the United States for use in the domestic trade of the United States, under the conditions prescribed for the charter of war-built cargo vessels in subsection (e) of this section”.
Approved August 31, 1954.