United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/13th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 89
Chap. LXXXIX.—An Act for the relief of John Whitney and Joseph H. Dorr.
Penalties remitted on merchandise illegally landed.Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States be, and hereby is authorized and empowered, upon the petition of John Whitney and Joseph H. Dorr, the sureties of the owners of the schooner Industry, to remit the penalty which the said owners incurred by the illegal unlading of sixty-nine boxes and eight half boxes of segars, and nineteen hundred and eighty-six pounds of coffee from said schooner, at the port of Edgartown, in the district of Massachusetts, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and nine, in the same way and manner as he is now by law empowered to remit the same upon the petition of the said owners; and the said secretary is also authorized to pay to the said Whitney and Door, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, any sum that may be by him so remitted:Proviso. Provided, however, This act shall not be construed to authorize the remission of any greater portion of said penalty than what has accrued to the use of the United States: And provided also, That the said secretary shall be of opinion that the said penalty ought to be remitted.
Approved, April 18, 1814.