Chapter XLI. to repeal the act, entitled “An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government and maintaining the public credit, by laying duties on household furniture and on gold and silver watches
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Chap. XLI.— An Act to repeal the act, entitled “An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government and maintaining the public credit, by laying duties on household furniture and on gold and silver watches.April 9, 1816. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the So much of the act of Jan. 18, 1815, as lays duties on household furniture, and on watches, &c. repealed. Act of Jan. 18, 1815, ch. 23. United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That so much of the act, entitled “An act to provide additional revenue for defraying the expenses of government and maintaining the public credit, by laying duties on household furniture and on gold and silver watches,” as lays a duty on household furniture, and on watches kept for use, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and in succeeding years, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Approved, April 9, 1816.