Chapter XIV. *for the remission of the tonnage Duties on certain French vessels.*Jan. 28, 1795.[Obsolete.] Sec. 1
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Chap. XIV.— An Act *for the remission of the tonnage Duties on certain French vessels.*Jan. 28, 1795.[Obsolete.] Sec. 1. Certain tonnage remitted.*Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the duties on the tonnage of sundry shallops and small schooners, lately employed to convey to Boston, a number of French citizens, late inhabitants of Saint Petre and Miquelon, from Halifax and Shelburne in Nova Scotia, where they had been sent prisoners by the British, during the present war, be, and the same are hereby remitted. Approved, January 28, 1795.