[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 113 (Monday, July 29, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S9030]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      CERTIFICATE OF DOCUMENTATION FOR THE VESSEL ``DAMN YANKEE''

  The bill (S. 1924) to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to 
issue a certificate of documentation and coastwise trade endorsement 
for the vessel Damn Yankee, was considered, ordered to be engrossed for 
a third reading, read the third time, and passed; as follows:

                                S. 1924

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 
     notwithstanding sections 12106, 12107, and 12108 of title 46, 
     United States Code, and section 27 of the Merchant Marine 
     Act, 1920 (46 App. U.S.C. 883), as applicable on the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation may 
     issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
     endorsements for employment in the coastwise trade for the 
     vessel DAMN YANKEE (vessel number 263611).

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