United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 56
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LVI.—An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit the duties therein mentioned.
The Secretary of the Treasury authorized to remit proportion of the duties to persons discontinuing the use of stills, &c.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any person to whom a license shall have been granted before the first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, for a term extending beyond the said first day of July, according to the provisions of the act, entitled “An act laying duties on licenses to distillers of spirituous liquors,” shall prove, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that he has discontinued, at any time since the said first day of July, the use of any still, or stills, for the use of which the said license was granted, and not afterwards used the same, then, and in such case, it may be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to remit such proportion of the said duties as may have accrued for the time during which the use of the said still, or stills, was so discontinued; and, if such duties have been paid, then to repay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, that proportion of such duties which accrued during the discontinuance of the use of said still, or stills, as above mentioned.
Approved, March 3, 1817.