...created districts and appointed officers. An Act to regulate the Collection of the Duties Imposed hy Law on the Tonnage of Ships or Vessels, and on Goods. Wares and Merchandise Imported into the United States § t. 1 Stat. 29 (1789) (enacted July 3t. 1789). The act...

...all ships that passed through the New Bedford Customs District, which regulated "the collection of duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels and on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States" beginning in 1796. These careful records included, among...

...the United States of America in Congress Assembled. Its title is "An Act to regulate the Collection of the Duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandises imported into the United States." (NOTE: This Statute was found in the first volume of...

...important act connected with the Treasury Department, entitled, "An act to regulate the collection of the duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandise." One month later — Septembers, 1789 — was enrolled as a whole, and passed, the fundamental...

...day of August next." The Act of July 31, 1789.— Its title is: "An act to regulate the collection of duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandises imported into the United States." The first thirty-seven sections of this act are taken...

...be directed to report whether any, ?nd v. hat alterations are necessary in the laws imposing duties on the tonnage of ships or vessels. and on goods, wares and merchandizes, imported into the United States. Ordered, That the said motion be referred to the committee of Ways and Means. And...