An Act to facilitate the transportation of cargo by barges specifically designed for carriage aboard a vessel
PL 92-163 (H.R.155), enacted 11/23/1971

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PUBLIC LAW 92-163-NOV. 23, 1971 
[85 STAT. 
Public Law 92-163 
AN ACT 
November 23, 1971 
[H. R, 155] 
To facilitate the transportation of cargo by barges specifically designed for 
carriage aboard a vessel. 
Vessels, 
N on-self-
propelled spe-
cialty barges. 
49 Stat. 442; 
82 Stat. 700. 
Report to Con-
gress. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assevtibled^ That 
SECTION 1. Section 27, Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as amended 
(46 U.S.C. 883), is further amended by inserting after "(c) empty 
barges specifically designed for carriage aboard a vessel" the words 
"and equipment, excluding propulsion equipment, for use with such 
barges", and by striking out the period at the end of said section 27 
and inserting in lieu thereof a colon and the following: '•''Provided 
further^ That upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the 
Treasury by I'egulation may prescribe, and, if the transporting vessel 
is of foreign registry, upon his finding, pursuant to information fur-
nished by the Secretary of State, that the government of the nation 
of registry extends reciprocal privileges to vessels of the United States, 
the Secretary of the Treasury may suspend the application of this 
section to the transportation of merchandise between points in the 
United States (excluding transportation between the continental 
Uiiited States and noncontiguous states, districts, territories, and pos-
sessions embraced within the coastwise laws) which, while moving 
in the foreign trade of the United States, is transferred from a non-
self-propelled barge certified by the owner or operator to be specifically 
designed for carriage aboard a vessel and regularly carried aboard 
a vessel in foreign trade to another such barge owned or leased by 
the same owner or operator, without regard to whether any such barge 
is under foreign registry or qualified to engage in the coastwise trade." 
SEC. 2. For a period of five years following the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall at the beginning of each 
regular session make a report to the Congress regarding activities 
under this Act, including but not limited to the extent to which 
foreign governments are extending reciprocal privileges to the vessels 
of the United States. 
Approved November 23, 1971. 
November 23, 1971 
[S. 2339] 
Public Law 92-164 
AN ACT 
To provide for the disposition of judgment funds on deposit to the credit of the 
I'neblo of Luguna in Indian Claims Commission, docket numbered 227, and for 
other purposes. 
Indians. 
Pueblo of 
Laguna, N, 
Judgment 
Mex. 
funds. 
Be it enacted, hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
f'nited States of America in Congress assembled^ That the unexpended 
balance of funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to 
the credit of the Pueblo of Laguna that were appropriated to pay a 
judgment by the Indian Claims Commission in docket numbered 227, 
and the interest thereon, after payment of attorney fees and expenses, 
may be advanced or expended or invested for any purpose that is 
authorized by tlie tribal governing body and approved by the Secretary 
of the Interior, including the transfer to the unrestricted funds of the 
Pueblo of Laguna. 
SEC. 2. Any part of such funds that may be distributed to members 
of the jiueblo shall not be subject to Federal or State income tax. 
Approved November 23, 1971.