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Private Law 16–LVI
for the relief of Ebenezer Breed.
Approved March 3, 1837
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Ebenezer Breed.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Ebenezer Breed, merchant, out of any
Payment of duties on wine destroyed while in custody of the customs.
money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the amount of duties paid on twenty-one thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven gallons of wine, imported in the brig Gazelle, on the first day of August in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, into the port of Boston and Charlestown, which wine was destroyed by fire while in the custody of the customs: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury
Proviso.
be furnished with satisfactory proof that said goods were so destroyed by fire, and were not insured.
Approved, .