United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/6th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 26
Chap. XXVI.—An Act authorizing the remission of duties on certain teas destroyed by fire, while under the sure of the sheer of the customs, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Be it enacted &c.,Duties remited on certain merchandise destroyed by fire. that the collector of the district of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to remit the duties on such part of a certain quantity of teas, imported into the port of Providence, in the ship called the Resource, on the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred, by Thomas Lloyd Halsey, John Corlis, William F. Megee, and Henry Smith, of the town of Providence, merchants, and on such part of a certain quantity of teas, imported into the said port, in the ship called the Ann and Hope, on the twenty-second day of August, in the same year, by John Innes Clark, of the said town, merchant, as remained deposited to secure the payment of duties, under the care of the officers of the customs, twenty-first day of January last, in the aforesaid town of Providence, and shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the said collector, to have been burned and destroyed.
Approved, March 3, 1801.