United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/8th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 4
Chap. IV.—An Act concerning drawbacks on goods, wares and merchandise.
Part of a former act, imposing restrictions on the exportation of goods from New Orleans, repealed.
Act of Feb. 24, 1804, ch. 13, sec. 6.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the sixth section of the act, intituled “An act for laying and collecting duties on imports and tonnage within the territory ceded to the United States by the treaty of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French Republic; and for other purposes,” as prohibits the allowance of drawbacks of duties on goods, wares and merchandise exported from the port of New Orleans, other than those imported into the same place directly from a foreign port or place, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any goods, wares, or Goods exported to the westward or southward of Louisiana, entitled to drawbacks.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.merchandise, which shall be exported from the United States, or the district of Mississippi, in the manner prescribed by law, to any foreign port or place, situated to the westward or southward of Louisiana, shall be deemed and taken to be entitled to such drawback of duties as would be allowable thereon, when exported to any other foreign port or place, any thing in the act, intituled “An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage,” to the contrary notwithstanding.
Commencement of this act.This act shall commence and be in force from the first day of March next.
Approved, January 5, 1805.