Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be issued, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register to the brig Encarnacion, formerly a Danish vessel, but now owned by John B. Brown, Jedediah Jewett, and Mark P. Emery, of Portland, in the State of Maine, citizens of the United States, the said vessel having sustained great damage on a voyage from St. Thomas to Portland, and the aforesaid owners having caused the said vessel to be repaired and refitted for sea at great expense: Provided, It shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the cost of the repairs and refitting said vessel in the United States exceeds three fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.

Approved, May 17, 1848.