Volume 9
Private Law 29–LXXX
authorizing a Register to be issued to the Brig Leveret.
Approved March 3, 1847
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing a Register to be issued to the Brig Leveret.
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 is hereby, authorized, under such regulations as he shall prescribe, to cause a register to be issued to the brig Leveret, formerly a British vessel, which was wrecked on the coast of New Jersey in the month of November, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and afterwards sold at auction under the directions of Christopher Murray, agent for the underwriters, and purchased by Russel Sturges, a citizen of the United States: Provided, It shall be
Proviso.
proved, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the treasury, that the cost of the repairs made in the United States by the said Russel Sturges, her present owner, after the purchase aforesaid, shall be equal to three fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage and materials in the United States.
Approved, .