Volume 10 · 150
Public Law 32–IV
authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Registers to Vessels in certain cases.
Approved December 23, 1852
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Registers to Vessels in certain cases.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to issue a register or enrol-THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 6, 7, 8. 1853.
built vessels purchased and repaired by citizens of the United States, authorized. Provided the repairs equal three-fourths the cost of the vessel when repaired.
ment for any vessel built in a foreign country, whenever such vessel may have been or shall hereafter be wrecked in the United States, and have been, or shall hereafter be, purchased and repaired by a citizen or citizens thereof: Provided, That it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the repairs put upon such vessel shall be equal to three-fourths of the cost of said vessel when so repaired.
Approved, .