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1784 585 (1784)

handle is hein.ssl/ssny0369 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OP T IE STATE OF NEW-YORK, PASSOED AT TnH FIRST MEETING OF THE SEVENTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE OF SAID STATE. CHAP. 1. AN ACT to lay a duty of tonnage on vessels for defraying the expence of the lighthouse at Sandy Hook. PASSED the 12th of February, 1784. I Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York represented in Duty Senate and Assembly and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, levied. That a duty of four pence per ton shall be levied and collected on all vessels which shall arrive from sea into the port of New York excepting vessels the property of citizens of this State while actually employed on whaling or coasting voyages, and all vessels the entire property of citi- zens of any of the United States, which shall not exceed the burthen of sixty tons carpenters tonnage. That for the orderly collection of the said duty it shall be lawful for Clerk to be the master and wardens of the port of New York, who are or shall be appointed appointed by the council of appointment, to appoint a clerk to execute aom,.ot the duties enjoined upon him by this act. That every master or commander of a vessel claiming an exemption Masters from the said duty shall if required make oath before the said clerk or claimin exemption in his absence before any of the said wardens who are hereby respect- to mae ively empowered to administer the same. That according to the best oath. Penalty of his knowledge and belief such vessel is a whaling or a coasting vessel for failure entitled to exemption from the said duty, according to the true intent to report to clerk on meaning of this act; and in case of refusal to take the said oath such arrival. master or commander shall be liable not only to the duty of tonnage the penalties in such cases to be imposed by this act. That every mas- ter of a vessel subject to the said duty who shall not within twenty-four

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