tives agreeably to a resolution of Congress of the first day of October, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
Approved, February 27, 1801
Statute Ⅱ.
March 3, 1801
Chap. XXVI.—An Act authorizing the remission of duties on certain teas destroyed by fire, while under the sure of the sheer of the customs, in Providence,
Be it enacted &c., Duties remited on certain merchandise destroyed by fire. that the collector of the district of providence, in 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, 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.
