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The following items were banned under the Non-Importation Act of 1806: All articles of which leather, silk, hemp, flax, tin (except in sheets), or brass was the material of chief value; All woolen clothes whose invoice prices shall exceed 5/- sterling per square yard; Woolen hosiery of all kinds; Window, glass and glassware; Silver and plated ...
An Act for reviving and continuing several laws of customs relating to the establishing courts of judicature in the island of Newfoundland; and to the prohibiting the exportation from, and permitting the importation to Great Britain, of corn; and for allowing the importation of other articles of provision, without payment of duty, until the ...
These agreements later served as the basis for the Non-Importation Act, and subsequent Embargo of 1807 that was passed by the United States Congress [1] in 1806 in an attempt to establish American nautical neutrality during the Napoleonic Wars between France and Britain.
An Act for vesting divers Messuages, Lands, and Hereditaments, Part of the Real Estate late of George Davison, deceased, in Trustees, to enable them to convey the same to the Purchasers or Mortgagees thereof, or unto such other Person or Persons as the Court of Chancery shall direct.
The US created the Embargo Act of 1807 to address British and French interference with US neutral ships. [16] Officially, the act "closed US ports to all exports and restricted imports from Great Britain." [16] Nonetheless, the act did not work as planned. [16] It was later lifted in 1809 and was replaced by the Non-Intercourse Act. [17]
An Act to continue for the Term of Seven Years certain Acts of the Parliament of Ireland, for preventing the Importation of Arms, Gunpowder, and Ammunition, and the making, removing, selling, and keeping of Gunpowder, Arms, and Ammunition, without Licence. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1872 (No. 2) (35 & 36 Vict. c. 97))
An Act for avoiding and putting an End to certain Doubts and Questions relating to the Attestation of Wills and Codicils concerning Real Estates, in that Part of Great Britain called England, and in His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America. (Repealed by Wills Act 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 26))
An Act to alter and amend an Act, passed in the Thirty ninth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for rendering more commodious and for better regulating the Port of London," [j] so far as the same relates to the Concerns of the West India Dock Company thereby established, and for extending to other Objects the Compensations ...