United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/1st Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 37

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Aug. 4, 1790.

Chap. XXXVII.An Act for the relief of John Stewart and John Davidson.

Remission of duty on a certain quantity of salt.Be it enacted, &c., That so much of the duties accruing on eighteen hundred bushels of salt, imported in the ship Mercury, into the port of Annapolis, in the state of Maryland, some time in the month of April last, on account of Messieurs John Stewart and John Davidson, as relates to thirteen hundred and twenty-five bushels thereof, which were casually destroyed by a flood on the night of the same day on which the said salt was landed and stored, shall be, and the same are hereby remitted.

Approved, August 4, 1790.