Chapter XVII. *to add to the district of Massac, on the Ohio, and to discontinue the district of Palmyra in the state of Tennessee, and therein to amend the act, intituled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage.”* March 2, 1801. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative
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Chap. XVII.— An Act *to add to the district of Massac, on the Ohio, and to discontinue the district of Palmyra in the state of Tennessee, and therein to amend the act, intituled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage.”* March 2, 1801. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* [Repealed.]District of Massac. That the district of Massac, in addition to the territory it already possesses, shall include all waters, shores, and inlets, now included within the district of Palmyra, and all rivers, waters, shores and inlets, lying within the state of Tennessee.
Sec. 2. District of Palmyra.Section 16 Act of March 2, 1799, repealed. *And be it further enacted,* That from and after the thirtieth day of J une next, so much of the “Act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” as establishes the district of Palmyra in the state of Tennessee, shall be repealed, except as to the recovery and receipts of such duties on goods, wares and merchandise, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels, as shall have accrued, and as to the recovery and distribution of fines, penalties and forfeitures, which shall have been incurred before and on the said day.
Approved, March 2, 1801.