A C T S

PASSED AT THE

THIRD SESSION

O F THE

FIRST CONGRESS

OF THE

United States of America,

BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, On Monday the fixth of December,

IN THE YEAR M,DCC,XC:

AND OF THE

Independence of the United States

THE FIFTEENTH.

VOL. I.

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CHAPTER I.

An Act supplementary to the Act, intitled, “ An All making further Provifion for the Payment of the Debts of the United States."

WHE

HEREAS no exprefs provifion has Recital. been made for extending the act, intitled, " An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties impofed by law on goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of fhips or veffels," to the collection of the duties imposed by the faid "Act making further provifion for the payment of the debts of the United States," doubts concerning the fame may arife: Therefore, Be it enacted by Provifions the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the of the act United States of America in Congress affembled, tion of duThat the act, intitled, "An act to provide tics, exmore effectually for the collection of the du- ten thea maties impofed by law on goods, wares and mer- king furchandize imported into the United States, and ther provi on the tonnage of fhips or veffels," doth and payment of fhall extend to, and be in force for the col- the United lection of the duties fpecified and laid in and States.

for collec

tended to

fion forthe

the debts of

by the act, intitled, " An act making further
provifion for the payment of the debts of the
United States," as fully and effectually, as if
every regulation, reftriction, penalty, provision,
claufe, matter and thing therein contained, had
been inferted in and re-enacted by the act last
aforefaid.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,,
Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United
States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, December twenty-feventh, 1790
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Prefident of the United States.

Recital.

bftruction

CHAPTER II.

An Act to provide for the Unlading of Ships or
Veffels, in Cafes of Obstruction by Ice.

HEREAS it fometimes happens, that fhips or veffels are obftructed by ice in their paffage to the ports of their deftination, and it is neceffary that provifion fhould be made for unlading fuch fhips or veffels :

In cases of Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and by ice, col. House of Reprefentatives of the United States of lector may America in Congress affembled, That in all cafes receive en- where a fhip or veffel fhall be prevented by ice other place from getting to the port at which her cargo within his is intended to be delivered, it fhall be lawful for

try at any

district.

the collector of the diftrict, in which fuch fhip or veffel may be fo obftructed, to receive the