June 28, 1848.
Chap. LXXXI. — An Act to authorize the issuing a Register to the Schooner "James."
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, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register
or enrolment for the schooner "James," formerly a British vessel, but now owned by
Timothy Carman, a citizen of South Oyster Bay, Queen's 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
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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.
Approved, June 28, 1848.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Private Acts, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 719-20