United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/3rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 53
June 7, 1794
Chap. LIII.—An Act for the remission of the duties on certain distilled spirits destroyed by fire.
Whereas, Jabez Rogers, junior, who had erected large works at Middlebury, in the State of Vermont, for distilling spirits from the produce of the country, has had the same twice destroyed by fire, with a quantity of spirits therein, on which, by law, duties had become payable to the United States: And whereas, considering the equity of the case, said duties ought to be remitted; therefore,
Remission of certain duties to Jabez Rogers.Be it enacted, &c., That the duties payable to the United States on all such distilled spirits, as shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the supervisor of the district of Vermont, to have been destroyed by fire in the distilleries lately burnt at Middlebury in the State of Vermont, be and are hereby remitted.
Approved, June 7, 1794.