[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 113 (Monday, July 29, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9034-S9035]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        CERTIFICATE OF DOCUMENTATION FOR THE VESSEL ``LIBERTY''

  The bill (S. 1682) to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to 
issue certificates of documentation with appropriate endorsement for 
employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel `Liberty, and for 
other purposes, was considered, ordered to be engrossed for a third 
reading, read the third time, and passed; as follows:

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                                S. 1682

       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 U.S.C. App. 883), as applicable on the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation may 
     issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
     endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the 
     vessel LIBERTY.

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