Section 2
SEC. 2. Persons who before the approval of this have served for a total period of not less than two patrons on sailing vessels of from thirty-five to one hundred and forty-nine gross tons, without the proper patron certificate and who can read and write English, Spanish or any native dialect, may, upon producing a certificate, or certificates to that effect signed by the outfitter or outfitters or owners of such sailing vessels and duly edged before a notary public or other person authorized by law to administer oaths, be allowed to continue acting as patrons without the requisites of subsection (e) of section eleven hundred and ninety-one of the Administrative Code, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-four hundred and twenty-six, and may obtain the certificate of patron in the minor coastwise trade upon application and payment of fees.