United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 42

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United States Statutes at Large, Volume 3
United States Congress
Public Acts of the Sixteenth Congress, 2nd Session, Chapter 42
2640907United States Statutes at Large, Volume 3 — Public Acts of the Sixteenth Congress, 2nd Session, Chapter 42United States Congress


March 3, 1821.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. XLII.An Act to extend the time for unloading vessels arriving from foreign ports, in certain cases.

Vessels exceeding 300 tons allowed 20 days for unlading.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when the capacity of any vessel, arriving with a cargo from a foreign port, shall exceed three hundred tons, the term for unlading such vessel shall hereafter be twenty days from the report of arrival, Sundays excepted.

Approved, March 3, 1821.