Chapter X. to continue in force the act, entitled “An act for imposing additional duties upon all goods, wares, and merchandise, imported from any foreign port, or place, and for other purposes
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Chap. X.— An Act to continue in force the act, entitled “An act for imposing additional duties upon all goods, wares, and merchandise, imported from any foreign port, or place, and for other purposes.Feb. 5, 1816. [Expired.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 107. Additional duties imposed by a former act upon merchandise, goods, &c. to be continued until June. Act of July 1, 1812, ch. 112. United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the additional duties upon goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, and upon the tonnage of vessels, imposed by the act, entitled “An act for imposing additional duties upon all goods, wares, and merchandise, imported from any foreign port or place, and for other purposes,” passed on the first day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, shall continue to be laid, levied, and collected, in the mode therein prescribed, subject in all respects to the same regulations and provisions, and with the like fines, penalties, forfeitures, and remedies for breaches of the law, as are now provided by law, until the thirtieth day of June next, anything in the said act to the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That from and after the said thirtieth Additional duty of forty-two per cent. after June 30, 1816. day of June next, there shall be laid, levied and collected, in the manner and under the regulations and allowances now prescribed by law, for the collection and drawback of duties on foreign goods, wares, and merchandise, an additional duty of forty-two per cent. on the duties which shall then exist on foreign goods, wares and merchandise, until a new tariff of duties shall be established by law.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That nothing in this act contained This act not to be so construed, as to affect or contravene any commercial treaty or stipulation with a foreign state. Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 76. shall be so construed as to contravene any provision of any commercial treaty, or convention, concluded between the United States and any foreign power or state; nor so as to impair, or in any wise affect the provisions of the act, entitled “An act to repeal so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty on tonnage between foreign vessels, and vessels of the United States, and between goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels and in vessels of the United States,” passed on the third day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.
Approved, February 5, 1816.