United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/10th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 25

2477955United States Statutes at Large, Volume 2 — Public Acts of the Tenth Congress, 1st Session, XXVUnited States Congress


Feb. 27, 1808.
Chap. XXV.—An Act supplementary to the act intituled “An act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, wares and merchandise.”[1]

Act of April 18, 1806, ch. 29.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That nothing in the act to which this is a supplement shall be so construed as to prohibit the importation of the following articles, that is to say:

Articles not interdicted.First. Wrappers and outside packages, in which goods, the importation of which is not prohibited, usually are and shall be wrapped or packed, at the time of their importation.

Second. Bags or sacks in which salt shall be imported.

Third. Glass bottles or phials in which drugs, medicines, or any other article, the importation of which is not prohibited, shall be imported.

Fourth. Printed books, maps and charts.

Fifth. Watches, tradesmen’s and artificers’ tools; mathematical, astronomical and surgical instruments; gilt buttons, locks and all other articles manufactured partly of brass, and partly of any other metal.

Sixth. Shalloons and woollen stuffs, muskets, bayonets, swords, cutlasses and pistols.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the articles of the following description shall be held and considered as being embraced by the description of articles, the importation of which is prohibited by the act to which this act is a supplement, that is to say:

Articles prohibited.All articles manufactured entirely of silk and wool, or of silk and flax, or of flax and wool; floor cloths; woollen cassimeres, carpets, carpeting and mats, whose invoice prices shall exceed five shillings sterling per square yard.

No vessel which cleared out from the U. States before December 14, 1805, subject to this law, &c.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no articles imported on board any vessel of the United States, cleared out before the fourteenth day of December last, from any port within the United States, or the territories thereof, shall be subject to the prohibition enacted by the act to which this act is a supplement: Provided, that such vessels which may have cleared for any port beyond the Cape of Good Hope, shall return to some port in the United States, or its territories, within twelve months: And provided, that such vessels as shall have cleared from any other port shall return as aforesaid within six months from the said fourteenth day of December.

Approved, February 27, 1808.


  1. Repealed by act of March 1, 1809, chap. 24, sec. 17.