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Public Law 40–LXXXII
to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to change the Names of certain Vessels.
Approved June 25, 1868
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to change the Names of certain Vessels.
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
The yacht “W. W. Abell,” to be called “Ethel,” and the “L’Hirondelle” to be named “Dauntless.”
be, and hereby is, authorized to change the name of the yacht “W. W. Abell,” owned by James Lloyd Greene, of Norwich, Connecticut, administrator of the estate of Benjamin D. Greene, late of said Norwich, deceased, and John Jeffries, jr., of Boston, Mass., to that of ‘‘Ethel and also to change the name of the yacht “L'Hirondelle,” owned by James Gordon Bennette, jr., of the city of New York, to that of “ Dauntless,” and to grant said vessels registers in said respective names; the said vessels being pleasure yachts only, and not engaged in commercial or other business.
Approved, .