Report on the proposed registration of the salvaged British steamer Craigallion as the American steamship Ozama.

Page 2 of Report on the Steamship Ozama by the U.S. House of Representatives

Page 3 of Report on the Steamship Ozama by the U.S. House of Representatives

Source: Index to the Reports of Committees of the House of Representatives for the First Session of the Forty-Ninth Congress, 1885-’86. In Twelve Volumes. (Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, USA), 1886, Report #669, pp. 1-3

 These documents certainly exist, but have not yet been located.

An act to provide for an American register for the steamship Ozama

Source: The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from December, 1885, to March, 1887, and Recent Treaties, Postal Conventions, and Presidential Proclamations, (Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, USA), Volume 24, 1887, p. 5

Registration of steamship Ozama (as per U.S. Treasury Department)

Source: Synopsis of the Decisions of the Treasury Department on the Construction of the Tariff, Navigation, and Other Laws, for the Year Ending December 31, 1886, (Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, USA), 1887, p. 133

Because the Craigallion was ultimately determined to be American property (under the law of salvage), the tonnage duties, which had been paid on her, when she was brought into Baltimore, were ultimately refunded.

“To refund to the Baltimore Storage and Lighterage Company amount collected from said company by the collector of customs at Baltimore September fifteenth eighteen hundred and eighty five as tonnage dues on the British steamship Craigallion and covered into the Treasury said due having since been remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury six hundred and twenty four dollars.”

Source: Statutes of the United States of America passed at the First Session of the Forty-Ninth Congress, 1885-1886, and Recent treaties and Executive Proclamations, (Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, USA), 1886, p. 261