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three: And provided also, that the said light money shall be levied 

 and collected in the same manner, and under the same regulations, as 

 the tonnage duties now imposed by law. 



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Approved, March 27, 1804. 



No. 170. 1817, March 1 : Extract from United States Statute, Cap. 31. 

 CHAP. XXXI. An Act concerning the navigation of the United States. 



Be it enacted ~by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 United States of America, in Congress assembled, That after the 

 thirtieth day of September next no goods, wares, or merchandise, 

 shall be imported into the United States from any foreign port or 

 place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such foreign vessels 

 as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of that country 

 of which the goods are the growth, production, or manufacture; or 

 from which such goods, wares, or merchandise, can only be, or most 

 usually are, first shipped for transportation : provided, nevertheless, 

 that this regulation shall not extend to the vessels of any foreign 

 nation which has not adopted, and which shall not adopt, a similar 

 regulation. 



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Approved, March 1, 1817. 



784 No. 111. 1818, April 18th : United States Statute, cap. 70. 

 CHAP. LXX. An Act concerning navigation. 



Be it enacted ~by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 United States of America, in Congress assembled, that from and 

 after the thirtieth of September next, the ports of the United States 

 shall be and remain closed against every vessel owned wholly or in 

 part by a subject or subjects of His Britannic Majesty, coming or 

 arriving from any port or place in a colony or territory of His 

 Britannic Majesty that is or shall be, by the ordinary laws of naviga- 

 tion and trade, closed against vessels owned by citizens of the United 

 States ; and such vessel, that, in the course of the voyage, shall have 

 touched at, or cleared out from, any port or place in a colony or 

 territory of Great Britain, which shall or may be, by the ordinary 

 laws of navigation and trade aforesaid open to vessels owned by 

 citizens of the United States, shall, nevertheless, be deemed to have 

 come from the port or place in the colony or territory of Great 

 Britain, closed as aforesaid, against vessels owned by citizens of the 

 United States, from which such vessel cleared out and sailed before 

 touching at, and clearing out from, an intermediate and open port or 

 place as aforesaid ; and every such vessel, so excluded from the ports 

 of the United States, that shall enter, or attempt to enter, the same, 

 in violation of this Act, shall, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, 

 together with her cargo on board such vessel, be forfeited to the 

 United States. 



