[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 113 (Monday, July 29, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S9036]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     CERTIFICATE OF DOCUMENTATION ISSUED FOR THE VESSEL ``OLD HAT''

  The bill (S. 1349) to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to 
issue a certificate of documentation with the appropriate endorsement 
for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Old Hat, and for 
other purposes, was considered, ordered to be engrossed for third 
reading, read the third time, and passed; as follows:

                                S. 1349

       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 sections 
     12106 through 12108 of title 46, United States Code, the 
     Secretary of Transportation may issue a certificate of 
     documentation with appropriate endorsement for the vessel OLD 
     HAT, United States official number 508299.

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