Volume 3
Public Law 13–V
authorizing the President of the United States to grant certain permissions to the inhabitants of the island of Nantucket.
Approved January 25, 1814
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing the President of the United States to grant certain permissions to the inhabitants of the island of Nantucket.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That during the continuance of the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbours of the United States, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, when in his opinion the public interest shall not forbid it, to grant permission, on application made therefor, to any inhabitant or inhabitants of the island of Nantucket, to employ any ship, vessel, or boat, for the purpose of conveying from the main land to said island, fuel, provisions and other necessaries for the subsistence of the inhabitants thereof, and of carrying from Nantucket to the main land, in the ship, vessel, or boat, oil, spermaceti candles and fish, under such regulations and restrictions, and with such security as are required by the fourth section of the act
Act of December 17, 1813, ch. 1.
“laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbours of the United States.”
Approved, .