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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · April 9, 1816 · Chapter XLII

Chapter XLII. for the remission of certain duties on the importation of books for the use of Harvard College, and on the carriage and personal baggage of his excellency William Gore, Governor of the British Province of Upper Canada

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Chap. XLII.— An Act for the remission of certain duties on the importation of books for the use of Harvard College, and on the carriage and personal baggage of his excellency William Gore, Governor of the British Province of Upper Canada. April 9, 1816. *Be it enacted, &c., * Duties on books belonging to That all duties due and payable to the United States on an invoice of books belonging to Harvard College in Cam- FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 48, 50, 51, 54. 1816. 161 bridge, Massachusetts, imported into Boston in the year one thousandHarvard College remitted. eight hundred and fifteen, be, and the same are hereby, remitted.
Sec. 2. *And he it further enacted, *That all duties due and payableDuties on the carriage, &c. of William Gore, remitted. to the United States on the carriage and personal baggage of his excellency William Gore, governor of the British province of Upper Canada, imported into New York, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, be, and the same are hereby, remitted. Approved, April 9, 1816.
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