United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 126
[Repealed.]
Chap. CXXVI.—An Act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 76.
Act of March 3, 1821, ch. 46.
Act of May 6, 1822, ch. 56.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 24.
Eighteen dollars per ton on French ships or vessels, in lieu of present duty.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in lieu of the tonnage duty now paid on French ships or vessels, there shall be paid a duty of eighteen dollars per ton, on all French ships or vessels which shall be entered in the United States, any act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, however, That nothing contained in this act, shall be so construed as to prevent the extension of the provisions of the act, entitled “An act to repeal so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty on tonnage between foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, and between the goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels, and vessels of the United States,” to French ships or vessels, and the goods imported therein, whenever the government of France shall accede to the provisions of the act above referred to.
The duty to be collected according to act of 2d March, 1799, ch. 22.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tonnage duty laid, and directed to be paid, by this act, shall be collected and paid according to the provisions of the act, entitled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.
This act in force from 1st July, 1820.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall commence, and be in force, from and after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Approved, May 15, 1820.