FOURTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, SECOND SESSION. AN ACT TO SUSPEND, IN PART, THE ACT, INTITULED, "AN ACT LAYING CERTAIN DUTIES UPON SNUFF AND REFINED SUGAR," AND TO GRANT RELIEF IN CERTAIN CASES ARISING UNDER THE SAID ACT. . .
[Philadelphia: 1797]. Folio Broadsheet, 7-3/8" x 12." Old horizontal folds, three chips at blank edges, some foxing in the upper blank margin. Good+.
This rare imprint of the Fourth Congress, evidently unrecorded, prints three Acts, two of them approved March 3, 1797 [the day before the inauguration of President John Adams] and one approved March 2, 1797.
The first Act suspends duties on snuff and sugar. The second establishes procedures for remitting or mitigating forfeitures and fines levied pursuant to acts regulating vessels in the fisheries or coasting trade. The third Act concerns the registration and licensing of ships engaged in the coasting and fisheries trade. Each Act is signed in type by George Washington [among his final acts as President], Jonathan Dayton [Speaker of the House], and William Bingham [President of the Senate pro tempore].
Not in Evans, Bristol, Shipton & Mooney, Stark & Cole, ESTC, or the online sites of AAS and OCLC as of January 2024. Item #36485
Price: $1,750.00