Feb. 15, 1848.
Chap. IX. — An Act to authorize the Issue of a Register to the Barque Wilhamet.
A register to be issued.
Proviso as to cost of repairs.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That there be issued,
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under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the barque Wilhamet,
formerly a British vessel, but now owned by A. G. Benson and John Benson, citizens
of the State of New York: said vessel, having been wrecked and condemned on Rockaway
Beach, Long Island, was purchased by the aforesaid citizens of the United States,
and has been repaired and refitted for sea: Provided, It shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the
cost of the repairs made in the United States, after the purchase of the said vessel
by the present owners, exceeds three fourths of the original cost of building a vessel
of the same tonnage in the United States.
Approved, February 15, 1848.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Private Acts, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 709-10 ,