Volume 2
Public Law 6–XXI
to allow a drawback of duties on goods exported to New Orleans, and therein to amend the act intituled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage.”
Approved April 5, 1800
Statutory text
An Act
to allow a drawback of duties on goods exported to New Orleans, and therein to amend the act intituled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That any goods, wares or merchandise, which shall be exported from the United States, after the tenth day of April current, in the manner prescribed by law, to the port of New Orleans, on the river Mississippi, shall be deemed and taken to be entitled to such drawbacks of duties as would be allowable thereon, when exported to any other foreign port or place, any thing in
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the act intituled “ An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.
Approved, .