Chapter IX. to allow the benefit of drawback on merchandise transported by land conveyance from Bristol to Boston, and from Boston to Bristol, in like manner as if the same were transported coastwise
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Chap. IX.— An Act to allow the benefit of drawback on merchandise transported by land conveyance from Bristol to Boston, and from Boston to Bristol, in like manner as if the same were transported coastwise. Feb. 6, 1818. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, That all goods, wares, and Merchandise transported from Bristol to Boston, &c., entitled to drawback, &c., as if transported coastwise. Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.merchandise, duly imported into either of the ports of Bristol and Boston, which shall be transported by land conveyance from the port of Bristol, by the way of Dighton and Taunton, to Boston; or from Boston, on the same route, to Bristol; and which, being imported into Bristol shall be exported from Boston; or being imported into Boston shall be exported from Bristol; shall be entitled to the benefit of the drawback of the duties thereof, upon exportation to any foreign port or place, under the same provisions, regulations, restrictions, and limitations, as if the said goods, wares, and merchandise, were transported coastwise from one to another of the said districts; and on the proviso, that all the pro visions, regulations, limitations, and restrictions, existing in the case of goods, wares, and merchandise, transported by any of the routes mention ed in the seventy-ninth section of the act, entitled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, shall be duly observed.
Approved, February 6, 1818.