Ship Enrollment for Maid of Iowa, 2 May 1844
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Ship Enrollment for Maid of Iowa, 2 May 1844
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Ship Enrollment for Maid of Iowa, , St. Louis Co., MO, 2 May 1844; printed form with manuscript additions presumably in handwriting of ; signature presumably of ; one page; Entry P311AB, St. Louis, MO, Certificates of Enrollment, NAID 2133240, vol. 1A, Custom House Records, 1789–1955, Records of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, Record Group 41, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington DC.
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49
ENROLMENT.
No. Forty Nine (49)
ENROLMENT, 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,”
Captain having taken or subscribed the oath required by the said Act, and having sworn that Joseph Smith of Illinoise in trust for the
is
WHERE SURRENDERED.
a citizen of the UNITED STATES, sole owner of the Ship or Vessel called the Maid of Iowa of N 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 in the year 1842, as appears by her enrollment issued at March 8th 1844, and No 36— now surrendered— change of owners
DATE OF SURRENDER.
day of
And the said enrollment having certified that the said Ship or Vessel has one deck and no mast and that her length is one hundred & fifteen feet her breadth Eighteen feet four inches her depth Three feet and that she measures Sixty and 17/95 60 17/95 tons; and
CAUSE OF SURRENDER.
that she is a steamboat has a Cabin above Transom stern and plain head.
And the said having agreed to the description and admeasurement above specified, and sufficient security having been given, according to the said Act, the said steam boat has been duly enrolled at the Port of
GIVEN under my Hand and Seal, at the Port of this Second day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four
Deputy Surveyor &c [p. [1]]
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- Editorial Title
- Ship Enrollment for Maid of Iowa, 2 May 1844
- ID #
- 5043
- Total Pages
- 1
- Print Volume Location
- Handwriting on This Page
- Isaac N. Mine
- Printed text
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On the left side of the page is an image of ship sailing on the water.
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TEXT: A decorative strip runs vertically between the three labels on the left side of the page and the main text of the enrollment with the words “AN ACT OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.”
Signature presumably of Isaac N. Mine.