United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 47
Chap. XLVII.—An Act for the relief of Henry Lee.
Certain duties to be adjusted.Be it enacted, &c., That the collector of the port of New York be, and he is hereby, authorized, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to liquidate and adjust the duties on certain cotton goods imported by Henry Lee, into the said port of New York, in the month of July last, in the ship Portsea, a foreign bottom, from Calcutta, at the same rate as if the said goods had been imported in a vessel belonging to the United States, with the addition of ten per centum on the amount of said duties, any thing in an act, entitledAct of April 17, 1816, ch. 107. “An act to regulate imposts and tonnage,” passed April twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, March 3, 1817.