[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 ``JOAN MARIE''

  The bill (S. 1454) to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to 
issue a certificates of documentation and coastwise trade endorsement 
for the vessel Joan Marie, and for other purposes, was considered, 
ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and 
passed; as follows:

                                S. 1454

       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 and 12108 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 and fisheries for the vessel JOAN MARIE, 
     State of North Carolina official number NC2319AV.

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