Volume 6
Private Law 26–XXX
to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to refund the duties collected on the French ship Alexandre.
Approved March 3, 1841
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to refund the duties collected on the French ship Alexandre.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to refund, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
Certain duties to be refunded.
appropriated, such amount of duty as may have been collected at the port of Newport, upon the French ship Alexandre, and her cargo, brought into the United States by mutineers. The vessel being bound, at the time the mutiny occurred, to the port of Bordeaux, in France, and no part of the cargo having been consumed in the United States.
Approved, .