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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 3 STAT. · April 17, 1822 · Chapter XXVI

Chapter XXVI. to remit the duties on a sword imported, to be presented to Captain Thomas Macdonough, of the United States’ Navy

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Chap. XXVI.— An Act to remit the duties on a sword imported, to be presented to Captain Thomas Macdonough, of the United States’ Navy. April 17, 1822. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Duty remitted on sword presented to Capt. Thomas Macdonough. That the duties which have accrued, or which may accrue, to the United States, upon the importation of a sword, to be presented to Captain Thomas Macdonough, of the United States’ Navy, in behalf of the petty officers, seamenSEVENTEENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 27, 28. 1822.663 and marines, who served on board the frigate Guerriere, when she was lately under his command in the Mediterranean, which sword is represented to be, or lately to have been, in the custody of the collector of the district of New York, be, and the said duties are hereby, remitted. Approved, April 17, 1822.
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