Volume 6
Private Law 3–XXVI
for the remission of the duties on eleven hogsheads of Coffee which have been destroyed by fire.
Approved May 9, 1794
Statutory text
An Act
for the remission of the duties on eleven hogsheads of Coffee which have been destroyed by fire.
Whereas, eleven hogsheads of coffee were imported in the brig Jason from Cape Francois, by two French citizens, to the port of Norfolk and Portsmouth, in November last, and the duties thereon secured to be paid by Messieurs Elliott and Purviance of the same port: And whereas, the said eleven hogsheads of coffee were afterwards on account of the same importers shipped to the port of Baltimore, and there, in the night of the seventh day of January last, destroyed by fire:
Be it therefore enacted, &c.,
That the duties paid or payable to the
Remission of certain duties to Messrs. Elliott & Purviance.
United States, on the same eleven hogsheads of coffee, be and the same are hereby remitted; and it shall be the duty of the collector of the port of Norfolk and Portsmouth, to refund the same duties if they have been received.
Approved, .