Chapter XLV. to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a Register to the Barque Martha
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Chap. XLV.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a Register to the Barque Martha. Jan. 25, 1855. *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 Register to issue to the Aquatic under the name of the Martha.direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the barque “Martha,” of Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, formerly a British vessel, called the “Aquatic,” but now owned by John W.
Caldwell, a citizen of the State of South Carolina, the said vessel having been brought into the port of Charleston in a disabled condition, and condemned as unseaworthy and sold, and which he caused to be repaired and refitted Proviso.for sea: *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, after the purchase of the said vessel by the present owner, exceeds three fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.
Approved, January 25, 1855.