Chapter XXVI. authorizing the remission of duties on certain teas destroyed by fire, while under the care of the officers of the customs, in Providence, Rhode Island
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Chap. XXVI.— An Act authorizing the remission of duties on certain teas destroyed by fire, while under the care of the officers of the customs, in Providence, Rhode Island. March 3, 1801. *Be it enacted, &c., * Duties remitted on certain merchandise destroyed by fire. That the collector of the district of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to remit the duties on such part of a certain quantity of teas, imported into the port of Providence, in the ship called the Resource, on the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred, by Thomas Lloyd Halsey, John Corlis, William F.
Megee, and Henry Smith, of the town of Providence, merchants, and on such part of a certain quantity of teas, imported into the said port, in the ship called the Ann and Hope, on the twenty-second day of August, in the same year, by John Innes Clark, of the said town, merchant, as remained deposited to secure the payment of duties, under the care of the officers of the customs, on the twenty-first day of January last, in the aforesaid town of Providence, and shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the said collector, to have been burned and destroyed.
Approved, March 3, 1801. 7 7 1 1801 1802 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SEVENTH 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 seventh day of December,* 1801, *and ended the third day of May,* 1802. Thomas Jefferson, President; Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Abraham Baldwin, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the 14th January, and from the 21st April, 1802;
Nathaniel Macon, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I.