Volume 6
Private Law 16–XLIII
for the relief of certain persons who have paid duties on certain goods imported into Castine.
Approved April 11, 1820
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of certain persons who have paid duties on certain goods imported into Castine.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be repaid, from the treasury, to the following persons, to wit: Jonathan
Certain duties to be repaid on goods imported into Castine while in possession of the British forces.
L. Stevens, Joseph Briant, Samuel Littlefield, Holbrook and Brooks, Doty Little, Rowell and Haskell, John Minot, Witherlee and Jarvis, John H. Jarvis, Caleb B. Hall, Ebenezer Noyes, Samuel Bartlett, John Bartlett, John Buck, Swazey and Folsom, John N. Swazey, Benson and Blodget, John Benson, Solomon Skinner, Eliphalet Parker, Henry Darling, Henry Rice, who made payment, or to their legal representatives, all sums which have been paid into the treasury, as, and for, duties upon goods imported into Castine, while in possession of the British forces, during the late war with Great Britain, the same not being, by law, subject to the payment thereof, upon which goods duties were also levied and paid to the British authorities, upon their importation into Castine: Provided, That it shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the
Proviso.
Secretary of the Treasury, that the claimants above named were residents of Castine or Bucksport, or were purchasers from residents, of the goods on which the duties have been imposed.
Approved, .