Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16)

by United States. Congress

Monday, January 12.

Duties on Salt.

Mr. J. Randolph moved that the House resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole on the bill for “repealing the acts laying duties on salt, and continuing in force the first section of an act, entitled an act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary Powers.”[45]