Ship Enrollment for Maid of Iowa, 14 September 1843
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Ship Enrollment for Maid of Iowa, 14 September 1843
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Ship Enrollment for Maid of Iowa, , St. Louis Co., MO, 14 Sept. 1843; printed form with manuscript additions presumably in handwriting of ; signature presumably of ; one page; Entry UD 119, Unbound Segment, St. Louis, MO, NAID 604564, box 1307, Certificates of Enrollment, 1815–1919, Records of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, Record Group 41, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington DC.
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No. 88
ENROLLMENT.
In conformity to an Act of the Congress of the , entitled An Act for Enrolling and Licensing Ships or Vessels to be employed in the Coasting Trade and Fisheries, and for regulating the same,” Capt Having taken or subscribed the oath required by the said Act, and having sworn that and are Citizens of the , and sole owners of the Ship or Vessel called the Maid of Iowa whereof is at present Master, and, as he hath sworn is a citizen of the , and that the said Ship or Vessel was built at in the Territory of Iowa, in the year 1842 as appears by her Enrolment dated at May 23 1843, and now surrendered, change of property
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And the said Enrolment having certified that the said Ship or Vessel has one deck and no mast and that her length is One hundred and fifteen feet her breadth Eighteen feet four inches her depth three feet and that she measures Sixty 17/95 6017/95 tons; that she is a steamboat has cabin above Plain head and Transom stern
And that the said having agreed to the description and admeasurement above specified, and sufficient security having been given, according to the said Act, the said Steamboat has been duly enrolled at the Port of .
[seal]
Given under my hand and the seal of office, at the Port of , this Fourteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three
Surveyor and Inspector. [p. [1]]
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- Ship Enrollment for Maid of Iowa, 14 September 1843
- ID #
- 21732
- Total Pages
- 1
- Print Volume Location
- Handwriting on This Page
- Printed text
- Oliver Harris
- Unidentified
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TEXT: Above “Enrollment” is an image of an eagle holding arrows and leaves in its talons.
“◊◊ Changes” written vertically in the left margin in unidentified handwriting.
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Embossed seal with an image of a ship surrounded by illegible text.
Signature presumably of Oliver Harris.