Volume 6
Private Law 16–XCVII
authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to Richard Butman the tonnage duly imposed on the schooner Brandywine.
Approved March 3, 1835
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to Richard Butman the tonnage duly imposed on the schooner Brandywine.
Be it enacted, &c.,
Duty on schr. Brandywine to be refunded.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to refund to Richard Butman, the owner of the schooner Brandywine, the tonnage duty imposed on said vessel on her arrival in the district of Middletown, in the state of Connecticut, which duty has been paid into the public treasury, the same vessel having been considered, through mistake, by the collector of the port, at the time of her entry, as a vessel not belonging to the United States.
Approved, .