Volume 13
Public Law 38–CXXXIX
requiring Proof of Payment of Duties on foreign Salt before Payment of the Allowances provided for by the Acts of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and March third, eighteen hundred and nineteen.
Approved June 20, 1864
Statutory text
An Act
requiring Proof of Payment of Duties on foreign Salt before Payment of the Allowances provided for by the Acts of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and March third, eighteen hundred and nineteen.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the allowance of bounty to certain vessels employed in the bank and other cod fisheries, as provided tor in the act of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and thirteen, entitled “An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries,” and the act of March third, eighteen hundred and nineteen, amendatory thereof, shall not hereafter be paid to any such vessel until satisfactory proof shall have been furnished to the collector of customs charged with the payment of such bounty, that the import duty imposed by law on foreign salt imported into the United States has been duly paid on all foreign salt used in curing the fish on which the claim to the allowance of bounty is based.
Approved, .