Chapter XLVII. relating to the unlading of foreign merchandise on the right bank of the river Mississippi, opposite New Orleans
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Chap. XLVII.— An Act relating to the unlading of foreign merchandise on the right bank of the river Mississippi, opposite New Orleans.June 12, 1844. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That it shall be lawful for Salt from foreign ports may be unladen on the right bank of the Mississippi, opposite New Orleans. the Secretary of the Treasury, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, to permit salt imported from foreign places to be unladen on the right bank of the river Mississippi opposite the city of New Orleans, at any point on said right bank between the upper and lower corporate limits of the municipalities of said city.
Approved, June 12, 1844.