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 ship Annie Tift, formerly a British vessel, called the Kestrel, but now owned by Asa F. Tift, a citizen of the State of Florida; and which said vessel, having been wrecked on the Florida reef, and condemned and sold, was purchased by him, and which he has caused to be repaired and refitted for sea again: Provided, It shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the cost of repairing and refitting said ship in the United States after purchase by the present owner, exceeds three fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.

Approved, February 1, 1849.