[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 113 (Monday, July 29, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S9031]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      CERTIFICATE OF DOCUMENTATION FOR THE VESSEL ``EMERALD AYES''

  The bill (S. 482) to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to 
issue a certificate of documentation and coastwise trade endorsement 
for the vessel Emerald Ayes was considered, ordered to be engrossed for 
a third reading, read the third time, and passed; as follows:

                                 S. 482

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 
     notwithstanding section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 
     (46 U.S.C. App. 883), the Act of June 19, 1886 (46 U.S.C. 
     App. 289), and sections 12106 and 12107 of title 46, United 
     States Code, the Secretary of Transportation may issue a 
     certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for 
     the vessel EMERALD AYES, United States official number 
     986099.

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