Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. ⅩⅩⅡ.—An Act for the remission of the duties of tonnage on the vessels of James O’Brien and James Aylward.
Duties of tonnage remitted in certain cases.Be it enacted, &c., That the duties of tonnage due on the schooner Endeavour, and on the schooner Fish-Hawk, the property of James O’Brien and James Aylward, distressed mariners from Newfoundland, who took refuge in the port of Plymouth, in November last, shall be, and hereby are remitted.
Approved, March 3, 1797.
Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. ⅩⅩⅧ.—An Act for the relief of John Brown.
Drawback allowed to John Brown.Be it enacted, &c., That the Comptroller of the Treasury shall and may examine and determine upon such evidence, as John Brown, of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, surviving partner of the late house of Brown and Francis, shall and may produce and offer, to establish and prove the export and delivery without the limits of the United States, of certain foreign Geneva and empty bottles, said to have been exported from the port of Providence for the East Indies, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, by the said Brown and Francis; and, upon satisfactory proof of such export and delivery as, by law, is required for goods entitled to a drawback of duties, the Comptroller of the Treasury shall and may direct the payment to the said John Brown, of the drawback of the duties which have been paid on the said Geneva and bottles; any failure of the particular certificates of delivery required by law notwithstanding.
