Chapter LVI. authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit the duties therein mentioned
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Chap. LVI.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit the duties therein mentioned.March 3, 1817. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United The Secretary of the Treasury authorized to remit proportion of duties to persons discontinuing the use of the stills, &c. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That if any person to whom a license shall have been granted before the first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, for a term ex-370FOURTEENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 57, 58. 1817.tending beyond the said first day of July, according to the provisions of the act, entitled “An act laying duties on licenses to distillers of spirituous liquors,” shall prove, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that he has discontinued, at any time since the said first of July, the use Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25. of any still, or stills, for the use of which the said license was granted, and not afterwards used the same, then, and in such case, it may be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to remit such proportion of the said duties as may have accrued for the time during which the use of the said still, or stills, was so discontinued; and, if such duties have been paid, then to repay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, that proportion of such duties which accrued during the discontinuance of the use of said still, or stills, as above mentioned.
Approved, March 3, 1817.