United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/3rd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 14
Jan. 28, 1795
Chap. XIV.—An Act for the remission of the tonnage duties on certain French vessels.
Certain tonnage remitted.Be it enacted, &c., That the duties on the tonnage of sundry shallops and small schooners, lately employed to convey to Boston a number of French citizens, late inhabitants of Saint Petre and Miquelon, from Halifax and Shelburne in Nova Scotia, where they had been sent prisoners by the British, during the present war, be, and the same are hereby remitted.
Approved, January 28, 1795.