Chapter XV. to authorize the issuing of a Register to the Barque “Cornwallis.” May 23, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Register authorized to be given to the barque Cornwallis
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Chap. XV.— An Act to authorize the issuing of a Register to the Barque “Cornwallis.” May 23, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Register authorized to be given to the barque Cornwallis. That there be issued, under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the barque Cornwallis, formerly a British vessel, called the “Cornwallis, of Cornwallis, of Nova Scotia,” of the burthen of about three hundred and twelve tons; which vessel was stranded on the eastern part of the Island of Nantucket, when on a voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to New York city, in October, eighteen hundred and forty-nine.
That said vessel, after much labor, was got off and carried into the harbor of Nantucket, where she was thoroughly repaired, and placed in a condition to be sea-worthy in all respects, and after such repairs, was carried to New York, where she now lies. She is owned by Thomas S. Winslow, an American citizen, resident of said city of New York: Proviso.*Provided*, That it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that the cost of the repairs of said vessel made in the United States, subsequently to her shipwreck aforesaid, exceeds three fourths of her value after having been so repaired.
Approved, May 23, 1850.