Chapter IX. to authorize the Issue of a Register to the Barque Wilhamet
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Chap. IX.— An Act to authorize the Issue of a Register to the Barque Wilhamet. Feb. 15, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, A register to be issued. That there be issued,709710THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 11, 14, 16, 20. 1848. under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for tine barque Wilhaniet, formerly a British vessel, but now owned by A.G. Benson and John Benson, citizens of the State of New York: said vessel, having been wrecked and condemned on Rockaway Beach,Long Island, was purchased by the aforesaid citizens of the United States, Proviso as to cost of repairs.and has been repaired and refitted 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 owners, exceeds three fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.
Approved, February 15, 1848.