Volume 73 · 24
Public Law 86–23
To authorize the construction of modern naval vessels.
Approved May 13, 1959
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the construction of modern naval vessels.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President is authorized to undertake the construction of not to exceed twenty thousand tons of amphibious warfare vessels and landing craft and not to exceed four thousand tons of patrol vessels.
Sec. 2.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as
Appropriations.
may be necessary for the construction of the foregoing vessels.
Approved May 13, 1959.