United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 30
Chap. XXX.—An Act repealing the acts laying duties on salt, and continuing in force, for a further time, the first section of an act, intituled “An Act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States, against the Barbary powers.”
After the 30th June, 1807, the act of July 8, 1797, ch. 15, repealed so far as respects the duty on salt.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the act, intituled “An act laying an additional duty on salt imported into the United States, and for other purposes,” passed the eighth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, shall be, and the same hereby is repealed, and that from and after the thirty-first day of December next, so much of any act as lays a duty on imported salt, be, and the same hereby is repealed; and from and after the day last aforesaid, salt shall be imported into the United States free of duty:Proviso.
The recovery and receipt of outstanding duties, not to be impaired. Provided, that for the recovery and receipt of such duties as shall have accrued, and on the days aforesaid respectively remain outstanding, and for the recovery and distribution of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and the remission thereof, which shall have been incurred before and on the said days respectively, the provisions of the aforesaid act shall remain in full force and virtue.
Bounties on salt provisions and pickled fish taken off.
See vol. i. 27, 260, 533, 693.
Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of January next, so much of any act as allows a bounty on exported salt provisions and pickled fish, in lieu of drawback of the duties on the salt employed in curing the same, and so much of any act as makes allowance to the owners and crews of fishing vessels, in lieu of drawback of the duties paid on the salt used by the same, shall be, and the same hereby is repealed: Provided, that the provisions of the aforesaid acts shall remain in full force and virtue for the payment of the bounties or allowances incurred or payable on the first day of January next.
Mediterranean fund continued till 1st January, 1808.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 46.
Proviso.That so much of the act, passed on the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, intituled “An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States, against the Barbary powers,” as is continued in the first section of the said act, be, and the same hereby is continued in force until the first day of January next, and no longer: Provided however, that the additional duty laid by the said section shall be collected on all such goods, wares, and merchandise, liable to pay the same, as shall have been imported previous to that day.
Approved, March 3, 1807.