Chapter XVIII. to repeal the duties on certain articles manufactured within the United States
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Chap. XVIII.— An Act to repeal the duties on certain articles manufactured within the United States.Feb. 22, 1816. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Repeal of laws laying certain duties. Acts repealed Jan. 18, 1815, ch. 22. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the act entitled “An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public credit, by laying duties on various goods, wares and merchandise manufactured within the United States,” passed the eighteenth of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and also the act, entitled “An act to provide additional revenues for Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 61. defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public credit, by laying a duty on gold, silver, and plated ware, and jewelry, and paste work manufactured within the United States,” passed on the twenty-seventh of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, be, and the same are hereby repealed: *Provided,* That for the recovery and receipt The duties payable under the acts which are repealed to be collected. of such duties as have accrued, and remain outstanding; and for the recovery and distribution of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and the remission thereof, which have been incurred in relation to any duty which shall have heretofore accrued, the provisions of the aforesaid acts shall remain in full force and virtue.
Approved, February 22, 1816.