Chapter XXV. *supplementary to the act intituled “An act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, wares and merchandise.”*(*b*)(*b*) Repealed by act of March 1, 1809, chap. 24, sec. 17
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Chap. XXV.— An Act *supplementary to the act intituled “An act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, wares and merchandise.”*(*b*)(*b*) Repealed by act of March 1, 1809, chap. 24, sec. 17.Feb. 27, 1808. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That nothing in the act to Act of April 18, 1806, ch. 29.which this is a supplement shall be so construed as to prohibit the importation of the following articles, that is to say: *First.* Wrappers and outside packages, in which goods, the importation Articles not interdicted.of which is not prohibited, usually are and shall be wrapped or packed, at the time of their importation. *Second.* Bags or sacks in which salt shall be imported. *Third.* Glass bottles or phials in which drugs, medicines, or any other article, the importation of which is not prohibited, shall be imported. *Fourth.* Printed books, maps and charts. *Fifth.* Watches, tradesmen’s and artificers’ tools; mathematical, astronomical and surgical instruments; gilt buttons, locks and all other articles manufactured partly of brass, and partly of any other metal. *Sixth.* Shalloons and woollen stuffs, muskets, bayonets, swords, cutlasses and pistols.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the articles of the following description shall be held and considered as being embraced by the description of articles, the importation of which is prohibited by the act to which this act is a supplement, that is to say: All articles manufactured entirely of silk and wool, or of silk and flax, Articles prohibited.or of flax and wool; floor cloths; woollen cassimeres, carpets, carpeting and mats, whose invoice prices shall exceed five shillings sterling per square yard.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That no articles imported on No vessel which cleared out from the U. States before December 14, 1805, subject to this law, &c.board any vessel of the United States, cleared out before the fourteenth day of December last, from any port within the United States, or the territories thereof, shall be subject to the prohibition enacted by the act to which this act is a supplement: *Provided,* that such vessels which may have cleared for any port beyond the Cape of Good Hope, shall return to some port in the United States, or its territories, within twelve months: *And provided,* that such vessels as shall have cleared from any other port shall return as aforesaid within six months from the said fourteenth day of December.
Approved, February 27, 1808. Chapter XXVI: making further provision for the disposal of the sections of land heretofore reserved for the future disposition of Congress. 2 Stat. 470 1808-02-29 Chapter XXVI Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 10 1 public 470 TENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 26, 27. 1808. 28Chap.
XXVI.— An Act *making further provision for the disposal of the sections of land heretofore reserved for the future disposition of Congress.* Feb. 29, 1808. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all the sections of land Reserved lands in Ohio with certain exceptions, to be offered for sale.heretofore reserved for the future disposition of Congress, not sold or otherwise disposed of, and lying within either of the districts established for the disposition of public lands in the state of Ohio, with the exception 1807, ch. 49.of the section numbered sixteen of the salt springs and lands reserved for the use of the same, shall be offered for sale in that district, within which such reserved sections may respectively lie, on the same terms, and under the same regulations, as other lands in the same district:
Such sections to be previously offered at public sale.*Provided,* that such sections shall previously be offered to the highest bidder, at public sales, to be held under the superintendence of the registers and receivers of public monies of the land-offices respectively to which they are attached, on the same terms as have been provided by law for the public sales of the other lands of the United States, and on No reserved sections to be sold at less than four dollars per acre.such day or days as shall, by a proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose: *And provided also,* that no such heretofore reserved section shall be sold either at public or private sale, at a less price than four dollars per acre.
Approved, February 29, 1808. Chapter XXVII: making appropriations for the support of the Military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eight. 2 Stat. 470 1808-03-03 Chapter XXVII Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 10 1 public
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*supplementary to the act intituled “An act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, wares and merchandise.”*(*b*)(*b*) Repealed by act of March 1, 1809, chap. 24, sec. 17
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