Chapter CXXVIII. for the Relief of the Owners of the Ship Herald, of Baltimore
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Chap. CXXVIII.— An Act for the Relief of the Owners of the Ship Herald, of Baltimore. Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Extra tonnage duties charged upon the ship Herald to be refunded. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to refund to Thomas Harris Hodges, administrator of John H. Hodges, in behalf of the owners of the ship Herald, Captain Pullen, of Baltimore, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the extra tonnage duty charged upon that ship by the collector of the port of New York, 1817, ch. 31.on her arrival from Amsterdam, in September, eighteen hundred Proviso.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is satisfied.and forty-four, for a violation of the sixth section of the navigation act of the first of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen: *Provided*, That the said Hodges shall satisfy the Secretary of the Treasury thatTWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 129, 130, 131, 132. 1846.665 he is legally entitled to receive the same, and that the violation of the navigation act aforesaid was rendered necessary to enable the master to return with his vessel to the United States.
Approved, August 8, 1846.