Chapter VII. *exempting Vessels employed by the American Colonization Society in transporting Colored Emigrants from the United States to the Coast of Africa, from the Provisions of the Acts of the 22d February and 2d of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, regulating the Carriage of Passengers in Merchant V
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Chap. VII.— An Act *exempting Vessels employed by the American Colonization Society in transporting Colored Emigrants from the United States to the Coast of Africa, from the Provisions of the Acts of the 22d February and 2d of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, regulating the Carriage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels.* Jan. 31, 1848. 1347, ch. 16. 1847, ch. 34. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That, from and after Passenger vessels of the American or Maryland Colonization Societies exempted from the acts of 1847, ch. 16, and ch. 31, respecting the carriage of passengers in vessels.the passage of this act, all and every vessel and vessels which shall or may be employed by the American Colonization Society, or by the Maryland State Colonization Society, to transport, and which shall actually transport, from any port or ports in the United States to any colony or colonies on the west coast of Africa, colored emigrants to reside there, shall be, and the same are hereby, excepted out of and exempted from the operation of the act entitled “An Act to regulate the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels,” passed twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven; and of the act entitled “An Act to amend an act entitled ‘An Act to regulate the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels, and to determine the time when said act shall take effect,’” passed second March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.
Approved, January 31, 1848.