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be made available for public inspection in such manner as the Secretary may deem practicable. SEC. 11. (a) Except section 3(d), this Act shall take effect on the date of its enactment. (b) Section 3(d) of this Act shall take effect April 1, 1960. SEC. 12. The Act entitled "An Act to require numbering and recording of undocumented vessels", approved June 7, 1918, as amended (46 U.S.C. 288), and section 21 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend laws for preventing collisions of vessels, to regulate equipment of certain motorboats on the navigable waters of the United States, and for other purposes", approved April 25, 1940, as amended (46 U.S.C. 526t), shall not be applicable in any State having a numbering system approved by the Secretary under section 3(c) of this Act. Such Act of June 7, 1918, and such section 21 of the Act of April 25, 1940, are repealed effective April 1, 1960. SEC. 13. The applicability and the jurisdiction for enforcement, upon the navigable waters of the United States, its Territories and the District of Columbia, of the laws of the United States and of any State which require the numbering and otherwise regulate the use of undocumented vessels, shall be as follows: (1) Such laws of the United States shall be applicable and enforced on such waters by law enforcement officers of the United States. (2) Such laws of any State in a State having a numbering system approved by the Secretary under section 3(c) of this Act shall be applicable and enforced on such waters by law enforcement officers of the State or by law enforcement officers of the appropriate subdivisions of the State. (3) Nothing herein shall preclude enforcement of State or Federal laws pursuant to agreements or other arrangements entered into between the Secretary and any State within the contemplation of section 9 of this Act. (4) Nothing herein shall interfere with, abrogate or limit the jurisdiction of any State: Provided, however. That the Secretary shall not approve any State system for numbering which does not fully comply with the standards set forth in section 3(c). Approved September 2, 1958.

Public Law 85-912 September 2, 1958 [ H. R. 13580]

Public debt limit. Increase. 70 Stat. 519.

AN ACT To increase the public debt limit. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 21 of the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended (31 tJ. S. C, sec. 757b), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 21. The face amount of obligations issued under authority of this Act, and the face amount of obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States (except such guaranteed obligations as may be held by the Secretary of the Treasury), shall not exceed in the aggregate $283,000,000,000 outstanding at any one time. The current redemption value of any obligation issued on a discount basis which is redeemable prior to maturity at the option of the holder thereof shall be considered, for the purposes of this section, to be the face amount of such obligation." Approved September 2, 1958.

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