United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/3rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 26
May 9, 1794
Chap. ⅩⅩⅥ.—An Act for the remission of the duties on eleven hogsheads of Coffee which have been destroyed by fire.
Whereas, eleven hogsheads of coffee were imported in the brig Jason from Cape François, by two French citizens, to the port of Norfolk and Portsmouth, in November last, and the duties thereon secured to be paid by Messieurs Elliott and Purviance of the same port: And whereas, the said eleven hogsheads of coffee were afterwards on account of the same importers shipped to the port of Baltimore, and there, in the night of the seventh day of January last, destroyed by
fire:
Remission of certain duties to Messrs. Elliott & Purviance.Be it therefore enacted, &c., That the duties paid or payable to the United States, on the same eleven hogsheads of coffee, be and the same are hereby remitted; and it shall be the duty of the collector of the port of Norfolk and Portsmouth, to refund the same duties if they have been received.
Approved, May 9, 1794.