Jan. 31, 1848.
1847, ch. 16.
1847, ch. 34.
Chap. VII. — An Act exempting Vessels employed by the American Colonization Society in transporting
Colored Emigrants from the United States to the Coast of Africa, from the Provisions of the Acts of the22 d February and 2 d of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, regulating the Carriage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels.
Passenger vessels of the American or Maryland Colonization Societies exempted from
the acts of 1847, ch. 16, and ch. 34, respecting the carriage of passengers in vessels.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passage of this act, all and every vessel and vessels which
shall or may be employed by the American Colonization Society, or by the Maryland
State Colonization Society, to transport, and which shall actually transport, from
any port or ports in the United States to any colony or colonies on the west coast
of Africa, colored emigrants to reside there, shall be, and the same are hereby, excepted
out of and exempted from the operation of the act entitled "An Act to regulate the
carriage of passengers in merchant vessels," passed twenty-second February, eighteen
hundred and forty-seven; and of the act entitled "An Act to amend an act entitled
'An Act to regulate the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels, and to determine
the time when said act shall take effect,'" passed second March, eighteen hundred
and forty-seven.
Approved, January 31, 1848.
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