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 948 SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cns. 235,252. 1925. Porto Rico, which port the owner of such vessel, sub'ect to the aproval of the Commissioner of Navigation of the I])epartment of Commerce, shall specifically fix and determine, and subject to such V¤¤*'= d°·=¤¤=¢¤*¤ approval may from time to time chan e. Such home port shall be toshow. . . g . . shown in the register, enrollment an license, or license of such Pmm mm rt vessel, which documents, respectively, are hereinafter referred to recognized. p° as the vessel’s document. The home port shown in the document of an vessel of the United States in force at the time of the approval of this Act shall be deemed to have been fixed and determined ,,%;,6 igmgggd mk in accordance with the provisions hereof. Section 4141 of the ` in Revised Sltxatutei ii hefeby amended to conform herewith. f .N° Q1 °’ 8**% er Sec. 2. o bi o sa e, conve ance, mortgage, assignment o mortii¤giiimz¤¤i6i·hoii gage, or hypothecation (excepii bottomry) which includes a vessel Kit); pZi;_°°”°°"“ “° of the United States or any portion thereof shall be valid in respect to such vessel against any person other than the grantor or mor-tgagor, his heirs or devisees, and any person having actual notice thereof, nmtil such bill of sale,_ conveyance, mortgage, assi ent of mort ge, or hypothecation is recorded in the 0 ce of the colb,*’§'Q,'${,,,‘,';‘°,;,°°,'jgm“g’ lector ogizustoms at the home port of such vessel. A:-y bill of sale Pm 01 Mw document- or conveyance of the whole or any lpart of a vessel sh be recorded at the home ort of such vessel as s own in her new document. Prior conveyaneeg, Sec. 3.  COI1VBy8IlC8S lllld H10I’tg&§€S of Elly vessel 0I' ally glft _,'§pg thereof, and all documentations, recor ations, indorsements, an in- P°¤· dexing thereof, and proceedings incidental thereto heretofore made or done are hereby declared valid to the extent they would have been valid if the port or ports at which said vessel has in fact been documented from time to time had been the port or ports at which Retroaetive om:. it should have been documented in accordance with law; and this section is hereby declared retroactive so as to accomplish such valida- §f,°”,$’°,,;.,,, right ,m, tion; Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to P°“’°°~ de rive any person of any vested right. ¤ol;°d°o•iii¤iia°$°i¤if°p`$iii  4. Wherever in the Ship Mortgage Act, 1920, otherwise known V°’·**·¥’· '°°°· as section 30 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, the words "poi·t of documentation " are used they shall be deemed to mean the "home port ” of the vessel, except that the words " port of documentation” shall not include a port in which a temporary document is issued. S,,¥;"‘§‘,§‘},°',,,l:,,"’ j,';‘{ Sec. 5. All such Splrovisions of the Navigation Laws of the United ggggg ¢<> ¤¤¤*¤r¤= States and of the. ip Mortgage Act, 1920, otherwise known as secvo1,41·, p. im, tion 30 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as are in conflict with this Act are hereby amended to conform herewith. Approved, February 16. 1925. F;§)i;1`iiI§i6v1§ CHAP. 252.-An Act To amend section 71 of the Judicial Code, as amended. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ii?.i¢iY'i>§o°<ii°?oio°S'L`driii2 United States 06 America in Congress assembled, That section 71 _ _ of the Judicial ode, as amended, be amended to read as follows: tl-i‘:{,'$°°°“"°d'°i“]‘1"' “Sec. 71. (a) The State of Arkansas is divided into two districts, to be lmown as the western and eastern districts of Arkansas. wemm district, " (b) The western district shall include four divisions constituted T°‘°""“”‘ °“"“‘°”‘ as follows: The Texarkana division, which shall include the territory embraced on July 1, 1920, in the counties of Sevier, Howard, Little ni Dorado division. River, Pike, Hempstead, Miller, Lafayette, and Nevada; the El Dorado division, which shall include the territory embraced on such ron Smith division- date in the counties of Columbia, Ouachita, Union, and Calhoun; the Fort Smith division, which shall include the territory embraced on such date in the counties of Polk, Scott Logan, Sebastian Frank— 1;,,,;,,,,,,;;,-;,i,,,_ lin, Crawford, Wlashington, Benton, and johnson; and the Iilarrison division, which shall include the territory embraced on such date in