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Private Law 25–X
for the relief if the owners of the British brig Despatch.
Approved February 6, 1839
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief if the owners of the British brig Despatch.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to ascertain the amount of tonnage, light-money, duties, and charges of all kinds paid on the brig Despatch and her cargo, at the port of
Certain tonnage dulies to be refunded.
Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where said vessel was entered on the twenty-second day of September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty-two, over and above the duties, tonnage, light-money, et cetera, charged to, and paid by, American vessels from the island of Tobago at that time, and to pay the same over, when so ascertained, to Aaron Baldwin, of Boston, the consignee of said vessel and cargo.
Approved, .