United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 17

2468976United States Statutes at Large, Volume 2 — Public Acts of the Ninth Congress, 2nd Session, XVIIUnited States Congress


Feb. 24, 1807.
Chap. XVII.—An Act to continue in force for a further time, an act intituled “An act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and certain parts of the island of St. Domingo.”

Former act continued in force.
Act of Feb. 28, 1806, ch. 9.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, intituled “An act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and certain parts of the island of St. Domingo,” passed on the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and six, be, and the same hereby is continued in force until the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.

Prohibitions of former act extended further.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the prohibitions and provisions of the aforesaid act shall be construed, and are hereby declared to extend to Gonoave and Tortuga, and to any other dependency of the said island of St. Domingo, not in possession of, or under the acknowledged government of France.

Approved, February 24, 1807.