United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 75
Chap. LXXV.—An Act in addition to “An act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties in certain cases.”
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 112.
The act of 20th April, 1818, extended to the vessels of Prussia, Hamburg and Bremen.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act passed on the twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled “An act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties in certain cases,” be, and the same hereby is, extended, in all its provisions and limitations, to the vessels of Prussia, of the city of Hamburg, and the city of Bremen.
The act of 3d March, 1815, ch. 76, the act of April 20, 1818, ch. 112, and this act to cease on 1st Jan., 1824.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the act passed on the third of March, eighteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “An act to repeal so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage on [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 goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels and vessels of the United States,” and also the act to which this is an addition, together with this act, shall cease and expire on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-four.
Approved, March 3, 1819.