Chapter XXVIII. for the relief of John Brown
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Chap. XXVIII.— An Act for the relief of John Brown. March 3, 1797. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Comptroller of the Treasury shall and Drawback allowed to John Brown.may examine and determine upon such evidence, as John Brown, of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, surviving partner of the late house of Brown and Francis, shall and may produce and offer, to establish and prove the export and delivery without the limits of the United States, of certain foreign Geneva and empty bottles, said to have been exported from the port of Providence for the East Indies, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, by the said Brown and Francis; and, upon satisfactory proof of such export and delivery as, by law, is required for goods entitled to a drawback of duties, the Comptroller of the Treasury shall and may direct the payment to the said John Brown, of the drawback of the duties which have been paid on the said Geneva and bottles; any failure of the particular certificates of delivery required by law notwithstanding.
Approved, March 3, 1797. 5 5 2 1797 1798 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FIFTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the thirteenth day of November,* 1797, *and ended the sixteenth day of July,* 1798. John Adams, President; Thomas Jefferson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Theodore Sedgwick, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the twenty-seventh day of June;
Jonathan Dayton, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II.