Chapter XCV. *to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a Register to the Bark “May, of Baltimore.”* March 2, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Register to issue to the Brazil Packet, under t
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Chap. XCV.— An Act *to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a Register to the Bark “May, of Baltimore.”* March 2, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Register to issue to the Brazil Packet, under the name of the May.Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized to issue a register to William Alexander, of Baltimore, Maryland, for the British bark “Brazil Packet, of Liverpool,” under the name of the “May, of Baltimore,” said bark having been libelled, condemned and sold for supplies furnished her in a foreign port, and was purchased by the said “William Alexander, an Proviso.American citizen: *Provided,* it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of said Secretary, that the repairs put on said bark, after the purchase aforesaid, by the said purchaser, shall constitute two thirds of her value when repaired.
Approved, March 2, 1853.