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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · Jan. 18, 1854 · Chapter IV

Chapter IV.

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Chap. IV.— An Act *to change the name of the American-built Brig “John Dutton,” and to grant a Register in her name.* Jan. 18, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Collector of the Customs Register to be issued to the John Dutton under the name of the Emma Eger.of the port of Charleston, South Carolina, be, and he is hereby, authorized under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to admit to register, under the name and title of the “Emma Eger,” the brig now owned by “Mordecai and Company,” and known as the “John Dutton.” Approved, January 18, 1854.
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