Chapter CXL. to authorise the issuing a Register to the Bark Mary Teressa
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Chap. CXL.— An Act to authorise the issuing a Register to the Bark Mary Teressa. Aug. 7, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, A register to issue to bark Mary Teressa. That there be issued, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the bark Mary Teressa, formerly a French vessel, but now owned by Nathan Rogers and Charles Butler, citizens of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland; and which said vessel having been wrecked and condemned in the Chespeake Bay, and has been repaired at great expense:
Proviso as to cost of repairs.*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 exceeds three fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States. Approved, August 7, 1848.