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55TH CONGRE1s, i lOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
Jd Sesion. 5 No. 246.
BARKENTINE SHARPSHOOTER.
JANT'ARY 25, 1898.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state
of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Low, from the Committee on the Merchant Marine antL isheries
submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 1788.]
The Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, to whom was
referred the bill (S. 1788) to provide an American register for the barken-
tino Sharpsliooter, owned in San Francisco, having examined all the
papers 'and documentary evidence in the case, submit the following
relmrt:
Tiis vessel was built and .wned in England. While on a voyage
from Chile to San Francisco, Cal., in August, 1895, with a cargo of
initrate of soda, she encountered a hurricane, became dismasted, was
strained, and conmenced leaking. To ease her, the crew jettisoned
1,135 bags of cargo. While under jury rig, making for the nearest point
of land, was fallen in with and taken iii tow by a Mexican man-of-war
anl towed into port of Guaymas, Mexico; from thence was towed to
San Francisco, her port of (lestination. Litigation followed, and she
was sold at pudblic auction January 27, 1890, to the highest bidder
mnder decree of United States district court. J. F. Cunningham Com-
pany, American citizens, were the purchasers, at $2,260, who repaired
the vessel ready for sea at an additional expense of -$18,616. This ves-
sel would be entitled to an American register under the law except
she was wrecked outside of the waters of the United States.
You r committee therefore reconnend the granting of an American
register to the said barkentine harpshooter.
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