Volume 3
Public Law 14–L
to continue in force the second section of the act, entitled “An act supplementary to an act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage.”
Approved March 3, 1817
Statutory text
An Act
to continue in force the second section of the act, entitled “An act supplementary to an act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Act of Jan. 14, 1817, ch. 3.
States of America, in Congress assembled,
That on all foreign ships or vessels which shall be entered in the United States, after the thirtieth day
Two dolls, per ton on foreign vessels from foreign ports with which vessels of the United States are not permitted to enter and trade.
of June next, from any foreign port or place, to and with which vessels of the United States are not [ordinarily] permitted to enter and trade, there shall be paid a duty [at] the rate of two dollars per ton, to be levied and collected in the same manner, and under the same regulations, as are prescribed by law in relation to the duties upon tonnage now in force.
Approved, .