8 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. OHS. 12-14. 1890. hmm !$J$°· fw 1:.-An act to provide an American register forthe steamer Jamaica,
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· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
- ·L'g,*__§"mgk,u United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commispmm to awp- sioner of Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the
°"°‘ ,,,,1; foreign-built steamer Vertumnus, owned at the port of New York, E State of New York, by Gerhard Wessels, an American citizen, and - rebuilt by him at Brooklyn, New York, to be registered as a vessel of the United States under the name of Jamaica.
- ¤p¤¤,,e, Sec. 2. That the Secretaryl of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to authorize and direct the inspection of said
steam—vessel, steam-boiler, stearpgpipes, and the appurtenances of said boiler, and cause to be gran the proper and usual certidcate issued to steam-vessels of the merchant marme, without reference to the fact that said steam-boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances were not constructed pursuant to the laws of the Unite States, and were not constructed of iron stamped pursuant to said laws ; and the tests to be applied on the inspection of said boiler, steam-pi es, and appurtenances will be the same in all respects as to strength and safety as are required in the inspection of boi ers constructed in the United States for marine purposes, save that the fact that said boiler, steampipes, and ap urtenances not being constructed dpursuant to the requirements ot) the laws of the United States, an are of unstamped iron, shall not be an obstacle to the granting of the usual certincate if said boiler, steam·pipes, and appurtenances are found tobe of suf- ` iicient strength and sa ety. Approved, February 13, 1890.
ih yy _ CHAP. 13.-An acttomod1.ty' existing'laws rela to duties on im rts and the collection of the revenue. Hug P0
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the H¤°°¤¤¤¤**¤s¤· United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the passage and approval of this act the following amendments to, and provision for, existin laws shall take effect, as follows: von. za. p. 512. Section six of the act of Narch third, eighteen hundred and eighty- A H Mthree, entitled ".An act to reduce interna -revenue taxation, and for otherp ses," providin a substitute for title thirty-three of the Revised Statutes of the Ifnited States, is hereby amended as to the followimglsection or part of section or schedule in such substituted it e as o ows: m£¤;¤‘,<;*1;Q;¤g(rig:dM¤ Section 2502, Schedule N, strike out the clause of this schedule ' commencing with the words " hats, and so forth, materials for," and races and ¤·:m· insert in lieu thereof the following: Braids, plaits. Hats, willow '°‘°“”°'"‘°°°°‘ sheets, and squares lit only for use in making or ornamenting hats, bonnets, and hoods, composed of straw. chip, grass, palmleaf, willow, hair, whalebone, or any vegetable material, not specially enumerated oigprovided for twenty per centum ad valorem. Reveal Sec. 2. l laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved, February 18, 1890. February 10, 1800. 14.-An act to constitute Albany, New York, a port of immediate trans- ···—;——· po on. , Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o{ the {‘,},b,§‘,',§§,;,Y,,,¤, United States of America in Congress assembled, That the privi eges p;;_$¤ng;>£r;c0priv11¤s¤¤ of the seventh section of the act approved June tenth, eighteen hun- ° vcr 21,,, in dred and eighty, entitled "An act to amend the statutes in relation
