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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · May 4, 1820 · Chapter LXVI

Chapter LXVI. for the relief of William Coffin, and others

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Chap. LXVI.— An Act for the relief of William Coffin, and others. May 4, 1820. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he Drawback allowed on whale oil exported.hereby is, authorized and directed to allow the drawback on so much of a quantity of whale and sea-elephant oil, imported into the United States by William Coffin, and others, in the brig Bonif, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, as shall appear to have been exported Proviso.from the United States: *Provided,* That it shall appear, to his satisfaction, that all the requisites of the existing laws respecting drawbacks have been complied with:
And that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 4, 1820.
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