United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/1st Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 1
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Chapter I.—An Act supplementary to the act intitled “An act making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States.”
Recital.Whereas no express provision has been made for extending the act, intitled “An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels,” to the collection of the duties imposed by the said “Act making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States,” doubts concerning the same may arise:[1]Provisions of the act for collection of duties, extended to the act making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States.—Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, intitled “An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels,” doth and shall extend to, and be in force for the collection of the duties specified and laid in and by the act, intitled “Act making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States,” as fully and effectually, as if every regulation, restriction, penalty, provision, clause, matter and thing therein contained, had been inserted in and re-enacted by the act last aforesaid.
Approved, December 27, 1790.