Chapter XLVI. for the relief of Robert Patton, and others
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Chap. XLVI.— An Act for the relief of Robert Patton, and others. March 3, 1805. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the collector for the District of TappahannockForeign tonnage duty paid by Patton and others to be returned, &c. be, and he hereby is directed to repay to Robert Patton and company, and Samuel Pearson, the owners of the schooner Iris, a vessel of the United States, the amount received from them for foreign tonnage on said schooner; and he hereby is also directed to repay to Samuel Gordon and others, the owners of the cargo of said schooner, the amount of the ten per cent, additional duties, received from them upon the said cargo, at the entry thereof at Tappahannock, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four.
Sec. 2. Bounty or allowance on a fishing voyage to be paid to Edmund Briggs and others. *And be it further enacted, *That the collector for the District of Newport be, and he hereby is directed to pay to Edmund Briggs, jun., and others, the master and crew of the schooner Phebe, the amount of bounty or allowance arising on a fishing voyage which was made in the said vessel, in the year one thousand eight hundred and Act of Feb. 10, 1807, ch. 10.four, upon satisfactory proof being exhibited to him that the said schooner was employed during the four months of the fishing season.
Approved, March 3, 1805. 9 9 1 1805 1806 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE NINTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December,* 1805, *and ended the twenty-first day of April,* 1806. Thomas Jefferson, President; George Clinton, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Samuel Smith, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the 11th day of December, and from the 28th day of March;
Nathaniel Macon, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I.