United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/1st Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 20
Chap. XX.—An Act for the relief of Thomas Jenkins and Company.
Duties on certain goods lost by fire, remitted.Be it enacted, &c., That the duties, amounting to one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents, be remitted on a parcel of hemp, duck, ticklenburg, and molasses, the property of Thomas Jenkins and Company, merchants, of the city of Hudson, in the State of New York, which were lost by fire in the brig Minerva, on her passage from New York to the city of Hudson, her port of delivery: and the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to allow a credit on the bond or bonds executed by the said Thomas Jenkins and Company, for payment of the duties on the said goods.
Approved, June 14, 1790.