United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/8th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 46
Chap. XLVI.—An Act for the relief of Robert Patton, and others.
Foregin tonnage duty paid by Patton and others to be returned, &c.Be it enacted, &c., That the collector for the District of Tappahannock be, and he hereby is directed to repay to Robert Patton and company, and Samuel Pearson, the owners of the schooner Iris, a vessel of the United States, the amount received from them for foreign tonnage on said schooner; and he hereby is also directed to repay to Samuel Gordon and others, the owners of the cargo of said schooner, the amount of the ten per cent. additional duties, received from them upon the said cargo, at the entry thereof at Tappahannock, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four.
Bounty or allowance on a fishing voyage to be paid to Edmund Briggs and others.
Act of Feb. 10 1807, ch. 10.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the collector for the District of Newport be, and he hereby is directed to pay to Edmund Briggs, jun., and others, the master and crew of the schooner Phebe, the amount of bounty or allowance arising on a fishing voyage which was made in the said vessel, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four, upon satisfactory proof being exhibited to him that the said schooner was employed during the four months of the fishing season.
Approved, March 3, 1805.