United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 18
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Acts repealed Jan. 18, 1815, ch. 22.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States,” passed on the twenty-seventh of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, be, and the same here hereby repealed:The duties payable under the acts which are repealed to be collected.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.