United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/5th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 5
Chap. Ⅴ.—An Act for the relief of North and Vesey, of Charleston, South Carolina.
Be it enacted, &c.,Certain duties refunded to North and Vesey. That the collector of the port of Charleston, in the
district of South Carolina, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed
to pay to North and Vesey, of the city of Charleston, merchants, the
amount of the duties paid by them on so much of a certain quantity of
sugars, imported into the said port in the prize ship called the Amity,
on the seventh day of April, one thousand seven hundred ninety-six, as
shall be proved, to his satisfaction, to have been burnt and destroyed in
the said city of Charleston: the said sugars not being liable to the payment
of duties, the sale thereof having been prohibited.
Approved, January 15, 1798.