United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/10th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 64
Chap. LXIV.—An Act for the relief of Joseph Chase, Jared Gardner, and others.
Ship Manilla exonerated from all penalty for having gone to St. Domingo.
Act of Feb. 24, 1807, ch. 17.Be it enacted, &c., That the ship Manilla, belonging to Joseph Chase and Jared Gardner and others, of the island of Nantucket, in the State of Massachusetts, be, and they are hereby permitted to cause to return to the United States the ship Manilla, and her cargo, without being liable to any forfeiture or penalty, incurred in consequence of the said ship’s having gone to the island of St. Domingo, under a clearance obtained on the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, before the act of the twenty-fourth of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven, continuing the suspension of trade with certain parts of the said island of St. Domingo, was known in the said island of Nantucket.
Approved, April 25, 1808.