Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅩⅩⅡ.—An Act to authorize the allowance of drawback on part of the cargo of the ship Enterprise.
Permit for exportation to be granted.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the collector of the district of Pennsylvania be, and he hereby is authorized and directed to grant permits for the exportation of that part of the cargo of the ship Enterprize, Herbert Jones, commander, which has been imported in the said ship, and in the schooner Delight, John Cannon, commander, from Newbern in North Carolina, under the same regulations and restrictions, as if the same had been imported into the district of Pennsylvania, from any foreign port or place.
Collector of Newbern.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the collector of the district of Newbern be authorized to grant a debenture or debentures for the drawback of the said duties: in like manner, and under the same regulations, as are provided by the act, intituled 1795, ch. 18.“An act making further provision in cases of drawbacks,” for goods, wares or merchandise exported from the United States, after the last day of March next.
Approved, February 13, 1795.
Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. ⅩⅩⅢ.—An Act relative to the compensations of certain officers employed in the collection of the duties of impost and tonnage.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
[Obsolete.]
Specific allowance to collectors, &c.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu of the commissions heretofore by law established, there shall be allowed to the collectors of the duties of impost and tonnage, on all monies by them respectively received on account of the duties aforesaid arising on tonnage, and on goods, wares and merchandise imported after the last day of March next, as follows, to wit:
To the collectors of the districts of Pennsylvania and New York, three tenths of one per cent:
To the collector of the district of Boston and Charlestown, and to the collector of the district of Baltimore, five eighths of one per cent:
To the collectors of the districts of Salem and Norfolk, seven eighths of one per cent:
To the collectors of the districts of Alexandria, Charleston and Savannah, one per cent:
To the collector of the district of Newburyport, one and a quarter per cent.
To the collectors of the districts of Portsmouth, Portland, Newport, Providence, New Haven and Tappahannock, one and a half per cent:
And to the collectors of the districts of Vermont, Champlain, Gloucester, Marblehead, Plymouth, Barnstable, Nantucket, Edgar Town, New Bedford, Dighton, York, Biddeford, Bath, Wiscasset, Penobscot, Frenchman’s Bay, Machias, Passamaquoddy, New London, Fairfield, Sagg Harbor, Perth Amboy, Burlington, Bridgetown, Great Egg Harbor, Wilmington in Delaware, Chester, Oxford, Vienna, Snowhill, Annapolis, Nottingham, Cedar Point, Georgetown in Maryland, Bermuda Hundred, Hampton, York Town, Yeocomico, Dumfries, Foley Landing, Cherrystone, South Quay, Kentucky, Wilmington in North Carolina, Newbern, Washington, Edenton, Cambden, Georgetown in South Carolina, Beaufort, Sunbury, Brunswick, Saint Mary’s, and Hardwich, two per cent.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the last day of March next, in lieu of the annual allowances heretofore established by law, there shall be yearly allowed to the following officers, the sums following, to wit: