Chapter X. *to admit the hermaphrodite Brig Sylphide to Registry.* Feb. 27, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there be issued, Register to issue for the hermaphrodite brig Sylphide.under the directions of the Secretary o
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Chap. X.— An Act *to admit the hermaphrodite Brig Sylphide to Registry.* Feb. 27, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there be issued, Register to issue for the hermaphrodite brig Sylphide.under the directions of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the hermaphrodite brig Sylphide, formerly of Bremen, but now owned by John S. Maunsell and William Parker, citizens of the United States residing in Louisiana, which vessel was condemned by the port wardens of the port of New Orleans, and afterwards sold at public auction, and purchased by said Maunsell and Parker for the sum of three hundred and eighty dollars, and has since been repaired and refitted for sea Proviso.at the expense of four thousand dollars: *Provided,* It shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the cost of repairing and refitting said hermaphrodite brig in the United States exceeds three fourths of the value of said vessel, when so reconstructed.
Approved, February 27, 1852.