Chapter XIX. to authorize the Issuing of a new Register for the American Barque Pons, of Philadelphia, by the name of the Cordelia
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Chap. XIX.— An Act to authorize the Issuing of a new Register for the American Barque Pons, of Philadelphia, by the name of the Cordelia. Feb. 23, 1847. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, A new register to be issued for the barque Pons, by the name of die Cordelia. That there be issued, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a new register for the American barque Pons, by the name of the Cordelia, of Philadelphia, which vessel was recently sold in that city, in pursuance of an order of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as having been unlawfully engaged in the slave trade, and is now owned by Edward Harris Miles: *Provided*, That this actProviso as to register. shall not be so construed as to dispense with the requirements of existing laws relating to new registers to be issued to vessels, except as to the name thereof; and that satisfactory evidence of a full compliance with those requirements shall be furnished to the Secretary of the Treasury before a new register shall be issued, as herein provided.
Approved, February 23, 1847.