Section 2
SEC. 2. Section two of Act Numbered Thirty-six hundred and thirty-five is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. Persons who before the approval of this Act have served for a total period of not less than two years as patrons on sailing vessels of from thirty-five to less than one hundred and fifty gross tons, without the proper patron's 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 owner or outfitters or owners of such sailing vessels and duly acknowledged 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."