Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States, on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, be authorized to extend to the town of Whitehall the same privileges as are conferred on certain ports named in the seventh section of an act entitled "An Act allowing drawback upon foreign merchandise exported in the original packages to Chihuahua and Santa Fe, in Mexico, and to the British North American provinces adjoining the United States," passed third March, eighteen hundred and forty-five, in the manner prescribed by the proviso contained in said section.

Approved, January 10, 1849.