United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 20
Feb. 28, 1816.
Chap. XX.—An Act for the relief of John Redman Coxe.
Duties on philosophical apparatus refunded.Be it enacted, &c., That the duties which have been secured to be paid by John Redman Coxe to the United States, on the importation into the same of a philosophical apparatus, and of a collection of mineral substances, to be used by him as professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, be, and the same are hereby remitted, on sufficient proof being made to the Comptroller of the Treasury that the articles above mentioned have been imported by the said Coxe, to be used for the purposes aforementioned.
Apporved, February 28, 1816.