United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/3rd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 29
Chap. XXIX.—An Act enabling George Gibbs to obtain a drawback of duties on certain exported wines.
Be it enacted, &c., That the collector for the port of Newport, in Rhode Island, be, and he hereby is authorizedG. Gibbs allowed the legal drawback. to allow George Gibbs, the legal drawback of duties on certain wines by him exported to Calcutta, in the ship Warren, some time in the month of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety:Proviso. Provided, the said George Gibbs shall produce all the other testimony (excepting the oath of the mate of the said ship) which is required by the fifty-seventh section of the actAct of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 35. “to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels.”
Approved, February 25, 1795.