ThirtiethCongress,
FirstSession,
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 or Enrollment for the Schooner James, formerly a British vessel, but now owned by Timothy Carman a citizen of South Oyster Bay, Queens county, State of New York, and which said vessel, having been wrecked and condemned on the south shore of Long Island, was purchased by him, and which he has caused to be repaired.

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 owner, exceeds three fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.