Aug. 7, 1848.
Chap. CXL. — An Act to authorize the issuing a Register to the Bark Mary Teressa.
A register to issue to bark Mary Teressa.
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
for the bark Mary Teressa, formerly a French vessel, but now owned by Nathan Rogers
and Charles Butler, citizens of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland; and which said
vessel having been wrecked and condemned in the Chespeake Bay, and has been repaired
at great expense: 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 exceeds three fourths of the original cost
of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.
Approved, August 7, 1848.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Private Acts, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 732