--- Page 1 --- --- Page 2 --- --- Page 3 --- THIRD CONGRESS OF THE U N I T E S T A T E S: AT THE FIRST SESSION, Begun and held at the City of PHILADELDHIA, in the ftate of Pennfylvania, on Monday, the fecond of December, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-three. An ACT for the remifion ef the Duties arifing 072 the Tonnage of. fundry French wefels wbich bave taken refuge in tbe Portsef the UnitedStates. the difaftrous fituation of the town of Cape-Francois, in WHEREAS theilland of Hifpaniola, compelled fundry veffels to of the French Republic, in the month of June laft, to take belonging refuge within citizens the ports of the United States : and whereas they are liable law to the ment of foreign tonnage, which, confidering the necelfity - their cafe, payequitably to be remitted to them : Therefore, ought Be it enadled by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of tbe United States America, in Congrefs alfembled, That the duties on the to which of of the veffels aforefaid are, or may have been liable, within tonnage, of the any of the United States, be, andarel hereby remitted: Provided any ports the mafter, owner or confignee, of every fuch veffel fhall make neverthelefs, proof to That the proper officer of the port in which fuch veffel may be, that the faid veffel was compelled to leave the faid ifland of Hifpaniola, and to take refuge within the faid port, by reafon of the calamity aforefaid, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefentatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate, APPROVED-March the feventh 1794. Go; WASHINGTON, Prefdent ef the United States. --- Page 4 --- 5D8 RPJCE tas J7832 US8 Veetna D82 --- Page 5 --- --- Page 6 ---