Volume 81
Private Law 90–73
To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Department under which the United States Coast Guard is operating to cause the vessel Northwind, owned by Wallace P. Smith, Junior, of Centreville, Maryland, to be documented as a vessel of the United States with coastwise privileges.
Approved August 21, 1967
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Department under which the United States Coast Guard is operating to cause the vessel Northwind, owned by Wallace P. Smith, Junior, of Centreville, Maryland, to be documented as a vessel of the United States with coastwise privileges.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, notwithstanding
Vessel Northwind.
the provisions of section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as amended (46 U.S.C. 883), the Secretary of the Department under
which the United States Coast Guard is operating shall cause the vessel Northwind, owned by Wallace P. Smith, Junior, of Centreville, Maryland, to be documented as a vessel of the United States, upon compliance with the usual requirements, with the privilege of engaging in the coastwise trade so long as such vessel is, from the date of enactment of this Act, continuously owned by a citizen of the United States. For the purposes of this Act, the term “citizen of the United States” includes corporations, partnerships and associations, but only those which are citizens of the United States within the meaning of section 2 of the Shipping Act, 1916 (46 U.S.C. 802).
Approved August 21, 1967.