Chapter CXCVI. *to extend the provisions of the act, entitled “An act regulating commercial intercourse with the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe,” approved the ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and to refund the tonnage duties on the French ship Victorine*.(*a*)(*a*) See notes to the
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Chap. CXCVI.— An Act *to extend the provisions of the act, entitled “An act regulating commercial intercourse with the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe,” approved the ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and to refund the tonnage duties on the French ship Victorine*.(*a*)(*a*) See notes to the act of January 7, 1824, ch. 4, for the acts relating to discriminating duties, ante, p. 2. July 13, 1832. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Privileges of act of May 9, 1828, ch. 49, extended to vessels in ballast.
That the privileges which are extended by the act, entitled “An act regulating commercial intercourse with the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe,” approved the ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to French vessels laden and coming direct from those islands, shall be extended to vessels coming in the same manner, in ballast, subject, nevertheless, to the proviso contained in said act. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of the TreasuryTonnage duty on the Victorina to be refunded. is hereby authorized to refund, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amount of tonnage duty as may have been collected, by the collector of the port of New York, upon the French ship Victorine, and which is referred to in the letter of the French minister to the Secretary of State, dated the fourth of November last.
Approved, July 13, 1832.