Volume 6
Private Law 16–LXVI
for the relief of William Coffin, and others.
Approved May 4, 1820
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of William Coffin, and others.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he
Drawback allowed on whale oil exported.
hereby is, authorized and directed to allow the drawback on so much of a quantity of whale and sea-elephant oil, imported into the United States by William Coffin, and others, in the brig Bonif, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, as shall appear to have been exported
Proviso.
from the United States: Provided, That it shall appear, to his satisfaction, that all the requisites of the existing laws respecting drawbacks have been complied with: And that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .