Volume 6
Private Law 4–XXVIII
for the relief of John Brown.
Approved March 3, 1797
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of John Brown.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Comptroller of the Treasury shall and
Drawback allowed to John Brown.
may examine and determine upon such evidence, as John Brown, of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, surviving partner of the late house of Brown and Francis, shall and may produce and offer, to establish and prove the export and delivery without the limits of the United States, of certain foreign Geneva and empty bottles, said to have been exported from the port of Providence for the East Indies, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, by the said Brown and Francis; and, upon satisfactory proof of such export and delivery as, by law, is required for goods entitled to a drawback of duties, the Comptroller of the Treasury shall and may direct the payment to the said John Brown, of the drawback of the duties which have been paid on the said Geneva and bottles; any failure of the particular certificates of delivery required by law notwithstanding.
Approved, .