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




          CERTIFICATE OF DOCUMENTATION FOR THE VESSEL ``BABS''

  The bill (S. 1149) to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to 
issue certificates of documentation with appropriate endorsement for 
employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Babs, and for other 
purposes, was considered, ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
read the third time, and passed; as follows:

                                S. 1149

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. CERTIFICATE OF DOCUMENTATION.

       Notwithstanding section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 
     (46 U.S.C. App. 883), section 8 of the Act of June 19, 1886 
     (24 Stat. 81, chapter 421; 46 U.S.C. App. 289), and section 
     12106 of title 46, United States Code, the Secretary of 
     Transportation may issue a certificate of documentation with 
     appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade 
     for the vessel BABS, United States official number 1030028.

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