Statute I.
Chap. XIV.—An Act to continue in force “An act entitled an act, laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the Fisheries.”
Act of 1813, ch. 35, continued.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “An act laying duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries,” passed on the twenty-ninth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall be, and the same is hereby continued in force, any thing in the said act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
Approved, February 9, 1816.
Statute I.
Chap. XVI.—An Act concerning certain courts of the United States, in the State of New York.
No effect on the proceedings of the court of the northern district of New York shall take place by the terms of the court not having been held at Utica and Canandaigua.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no legal proceeding whatever in the courts of the United States for the northern district of New York, shall be discontinued, abated, impaired, or affected, by reason that the last terms of the district court for the said northern district, appointed to be held at Utica and Canandaigua were not held, but that every proceeding whatever shall be in the same state, and have the same force and effect as if the said terms had been duly held.
Approved, February 5, 1816.
Statute I.
Chap. XVIII.—An Act to repeal the duties on certain articles manufactured within the United States.
Repeal of laws laying certain duties.
Acts repealed Jan. 18, 1815, ch. 22.
Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 61.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled “An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public credit, by laying duties on various goods, wares and merchandise manufactured within the United States,” passed the eighteenth of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and also the act, entitled “An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public credit, by laying a duty on gold, silver, and plated ware, and jewelry, and paste work manufactured within the United States,” passed on the twenty-seventh of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, be, and the same here hereby repealed:The duties payable under the acts which are repealed to be collected. Provided, That for the recovery and receipt of such duties as have accrued, and remain outstanding; and for the recovery and distribution of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and the remission thereof, which have been incurred in relation to any duty which shall have heretofore accrued, the provisions of the aforesaid acts shall remain in full force and virtue.
Approved, February 5, 1816.
Statute I.
Chap. XXI.—An Act rewarding the officers and crew of the sloop of war Hornet, for the capture and destruction of the British sloop of war Penguin.
