United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 196
Chap. CXCVI.—An Act to extend the provisions of the act, entitled “An act regulating commercial intercourse with the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe,” approved the ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and to refund the tonnage duties on the French ship Victorine.[1]
Privileges of act of May 9, 1828, ch. 49, extended to vessels in ballast.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the privileges which are extended by the act, entitled “An act regulating commercial intercourse with the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe,” approved the ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to French vessels laden and coming direct from those islands, shall be extended to vessels coming in the same manner, in ballast, subject, nevertheless, to the proviso contained in said act.
Tonnage duty on the Victorine to be refunded.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to refund, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amount of tonnage duty as may have been collected, by the collector of the port of New York, upon the French ship Victorine, and which is referred to in the letter of the French minister to the Secretary of State, dated the fourth of November last.
Approved, July 13, 1832.
- ↑ See notes to the act of January 7, 1824, ch. 4, for the acts relating to discriminating duties, ante, p. 2.