Chapter XIV. to authorize the issuing of a Register or Enrolment to the Schooner Robert Henry
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Chap. XIV.— An Act to authorize the issuing of a Register or Enrolment to the Schooner Robert Henry. Feb. 22, 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, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register or enrolment for the schooner Robert Henry, formerly a British vessel, but now owned by John P. Baldwin, a citizen of the State of Florida; and which said vessel, having been wrecked on the Florida Reef, and condemned and sold, was purchased by him, and which he has caused to Proviso as to cost of repairs.be repaired and refitted for sea again: *Provided*, It shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the cost of repairing and refitting said schooner in the United States, after her purchase by the present owner, exceeds three fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.
Approved, February 22, 1848.