A Bill
To change the name of the Steam Boat, Charles Downing to the Calhoun,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Collector of the Port of Charleston, in the state of South Carolina, be and he hereby is authorised, to issue an Enrolment and License for the Steam Boat now called the “Charles Downing,” in the name of the “Calhoun,” the owner thereof William A. Carson, paying the usual fees, and complying in all other respects with ^the^ laws regulating the granting of Enrolments and Licenses to vessels employed in the coasting trade, said Enrolment shall state, in addition to the usual description, that the former name of said Steam Boat was the Charles Downing, and that it was changed, by authority of this act.

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No 253
A Bill
To change the name of the Steam Boat “Charles Downing” to the “Calhoun.”
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Feb. 29. 1848
Engd Read three times and passed.
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[Grinnell?]
HR 27 passed

Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), RG 233, Entry 362: Records of the United States House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Bills and Resolutions Originating in the House, 1847-1849, NAB ,