Chapter LXI. for the relief of the Baltimore and, Massachusetts Bible Societies
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Chap. LXI.— An Act for the relief of the Baltimore and, Massachusetts Bible Societies. April 20, 1816. *Be it enacted, &c., * Duties on stereotype plates remitted. That all the duties due and payable to the United States, on a set of stereotype plates, owned by the Baltimore Bible Society, imported from London to Philadelphia, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, on board the ship Electra; and from London to Baltimore, in the same year, on board the ship Joseph, be, and the same are hereby remitted.
Sec. 2. Drawback allowed on an invoice of Bibles. *And be it further enacted, *That the Comptroller of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to direct a debenture to be issued to the Massachusetts Bible Society, for a drawback of duties upon an invoice of Bibles exported from the port of Boston, on board the brigantine Panther, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen: *Provided, however,* That the said Society shall produce satisfactory evidence to the said comptroller, as the law directs, that the invoice aforesaid has been landed in some foreign port or place.
Approved, April 20, 1816.