United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 1
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Chapter I.—An Act to suspend the operation of an act, intituled “An act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, wares and merchandise,” and to remit the penalties incurred under the same.
Operation of a former act suspended.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the operation of the act, passed on the eighteenth day of April last, intituled Act of April 18, 1806, ch. 29.“An act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, wares and merchandise,” be, and the same hereby is suspended until the first day of July next.
Remission of certain penalties.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all penalties, fines and forfeitures, which may have been incurred by virtue of the provisions of the aforesaid act, be, and the same hereby are, respectively, remitted, on payment, by the parties, by whom such penalty, fine or forfeiture may have been incurred, of all costs which have accrued, or may accrue before notice of this act shall have been received by the attornies of the several districts of the United States.
Further suspension.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized further to suspend the operation of the aforesaid act, if in his judgment the public interest should require it: Provided,Proviso. that such suspension shall not extend beyond the second Monday in December next.
Approved, December 19, 1806.