Volume 6
Private Law 21–LXX
for the relief of the Mercantile Insurance Company, in Salem, Massachusetts.
Approved April 15, 1830
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of the Mercantile Insurance Company, in Salem, Massachusetts.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is
Certain duties refunded.
hereby, authorized and required to repay to the President and Directors of the Mercantile Insurance Company, in Salem, Massachusetts, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and thirty dollars and ninety-two cents, being the amount paid to the Collector of the Customs for the District of Belfast, in the state of Maine, for duties on sails, rigging, and other materials, saved from the American brig Lydia, which was wrecked at Martinique, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and which materials were subsequently brought back and landed in said district: Provided,
Proviso.
It shall be satisfactorily shown to the Secretary of the Treasury, that the articles upon which said duty has been paid, were a part of the materials of said brig Lydia.
Approved, .