Chapter CCXCV. to authorize the Issue of an American Register to the Brig Delphine
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CHAP. CCXCV.— An Act to authorize the Issue of an American Register to the Brig Delphine.June 4, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there be issued, under theAmerican register to be issued to the brig Delphine. direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the brig Delphine, formerly a French vessel, but now owned by Messrs. B. S. Rhett and Son, of Charleston, South Carolina, and which said vessel, having been brought into the harbor of Charleston in a damaged condition, was ordered by the French consul at that port to be sold at public auction, and was purchased by said B.
S. Rhett & Son, who have caused the said vessel to be repaired: *Provided,* That it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of theProviso. Treasury that the cost of the repairs made in the United States, after the purchase of said vessel by the present owners, equals three times the amount paid by said B. S. Rhett & Son at said auction. Approved, June 4, 1872.