Chapter LXIX. to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to cause repayments to be made of certain alien duties
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Chap. LXIX.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to cause repayments to be made of certain alien duties.March 3, 1817. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Discriminating duties paid on British vessels, from the 17th Aug. to 22d Dec. 1815, to be repaid, &c. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby directed to cause to be repaid, or remitted, all alien or discriminating duties, either upon tonnage or merchandise imported, in respect to all British vessels which have been entered in ports of the United States at any time between the seventeenth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and the twenty-second of December in the same year, excepting only such duties as may have been Exception. paid or secured on the tonnage of ships, or upon the merchandise imported therein, which ships have been entered, in the United States from a colony or district, into or with which vessels of the United States are not ordinarily permitted to enter and trade.
Approved, March 3, 1817.