Chapter XV. *for carrying into more complete effect the tenth article of the treaty of friendship, limits and navigation with Spain.*Feb. 14, 1805. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Cargoes of Spanish vessels, arriving in distress in the U
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Chap. XV.— An Act *for carrying into more complete effect the tenth article of the treaty of friendship, limits and navigation with Spain.*Feb. 14, 1805. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Cargoes of Spanish vessels, arriving in distress in the U. States, may be reshipped in other vessels without any charges, &c. Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22. sec. 80, vol. i. 672. States of America in Congress assembled,* That whenever any Spanish vessel shall arrive in distress, in any port of the United States, having been damaged on the coasts, or within the limits of the United States, and her cargo shall have been unladen, in conformity with the provisions of the sixtieth section of the act, intituled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” the said cargo, or any part thereof, may, if the said ship or vessel should be condemned, as not sea worthy, or be deemed incapable of performing her original voyage, afterwards be re-laden on board any other vessel or vessels, under the inspection of the officer who superintended the landing thereof, or other proper person.
And no duties, charges, or fees whatever, shall be paid on such part of the cargo, as may be re-laded and carried away, either in the vessel in which it was originally imported, or in any other whatever. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the collector of the district Collector of Norfolk to refund certain duties on goods reshipped which were landed from the Spanish brig Nancy. Proviso. of Norfolk, in Virginia, shall be, and he hereby is authorized and required to refund to the owners or agents of the Spanish brigantine Nancy, (which vessel arrived in distress at that port, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four) the amount of the duties secured by him on such part of her cargo as was re-exported: *Provided,* that the debenture or debentures issued by the said collector for the drawback of the duties on the exportation of the said cargo, shall be duly surrendered to him, and cancelled.
Approved, February 14, 1805.