United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/11th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 7
Chap. VII.—An Act for the relief of Harry Caldwell and Amasa Jackson, Jeremiah Reynolds, and Levin Jones.
Be it enacted, &c., That the brig Joseph Ricketson, owned by Harry Caldwell and Amasa Jackson, which on or about the twenty-fifth day Relief in the cases of Calwell, Jackson, Reynolds and Jones.of July last, at Kingston, in the island of Jamaica, took on board three refugees from the island of Cuba, with their domestic slaves, six in number, and landed them at New Orleans; and that the schooner Victory, owned by Jeremiah Reynolds, who, about the latter end of September last, at Curaçoa, took on board a number of French emigrangts from the said island of Cuba, with their domestic slaves, six in number, and landed them also at New Orleans, which said vessels were seized, together with their effects, and libelled, for a violation of an act, entitledAct of March 2, 1807, ch. 22. “An act to prohibit the importation of slaved into any port or place of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight,” be, and they are hereby severally released from the seizures aforesaid. And that the schooner Wolfe, of Baltimore, owned and commanded by Levin Jones, which vessel was seized some time in October last, at Norfolk, in Virginia, on account of having brought from Charleston, in South Carolina, to that place, certain French slaves, nineteen in number, without previously complying with the requisites enjoined by the ninth and tenth sections of the act aforesaid, be, and he is hereby also released from the seizure.
Remission of all penalties and forfeitures in these cases.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all penalties and forfeitures, which may have been incurred by the captains or owners of said vessels, in consequence of the violation of any of the provisions of the act referred to in the first section, be, and the same are hereby remitted.
Apporved, February 5, 1810.