United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 12
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XII.—An Act declaring the consent of Congress to an act of the state of Pennsylvania, intituled “An act to empower the board of wardens, for the port of Philadelphia, to collect a certain duty on tonnage, for the purposes therein mentioned.”
Assent of Congress to an act of the legislature of Pennsylvania, laying a duty on tonnage.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress be, and it is hereby granted and declared to the operation of an act of the legislature of Pennsylvania, passed on the first day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and five, intituled “An act to empower the board of wardens, for the port of Philadelphia, to collect a certain duty on tonnage, for the purposes therein mentioned,” so far as to enable the state of Pennsylvania to collect a duty of four cents per ton, on all vessels which shall clear out from the port of Philadelphia for any foreign port or place whatever, to be expended in building piers in, and otherwise improving the navigation of the river Delaware, agreeably to the intentions of the said act.
Approved, February 28, 1806.