# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/1st Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 19

Chap. XIX.—An Act for giving effect to the several Acts therein mentioned, in respect to the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Acts of import and tonnage, declared in force as to the state of R. Island. Act of July 4, 1789, ch. 2. Act of July 20, 1789, ch. 3.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the several and respective duties specified, and laid in and by the act, intituled “An act for laying a duty on goods, wares and merchandises ​imported into the United States,” and in and by the act, intituled “An act imposing duties on tonnage,” shall be paid and collected upon all goods, wares and merchandises, which after the expiration of five days from the passing of this act, shall be imported into the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, from any foreign port or place, and upon the tonnage of all ships and vessels, which after the said day shall be entered within the said state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, subject to the exceptions, qualifications, allowances and abatements in the said acts contained or expressed, which acts shall be deemed to have the like force and operation within the said state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, as elsewhere within the United States.
And for due collection, two districts established;Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the due collection of the said duties, there shall be in the said State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, two districts—to wit: the district of Newport, and the district of Providence. The district of Newport shall comprehend all the waters, shores, bays, harbors, creeks and inlets, from the west line of the said state, all along the sea-coast, and northward up the Narraganset Bay, as far as the most easterly part of Kinnimicut Point at high water mark;their limits and boundaries; and shall include the several towns, harbors and landing-places at Westerly, Charlestown, South Kingstown, North Kingstown, East Greenwich, and all that part of the town of Warwick southward of the latitude of said Kinnimicut Point; and also the towns, harbors and landing-places of Barrington, Warren, Bristol, Tiverton, Little Compton, and all the towns, harbors and landing-places of the island of Rhode Island, Kinnimicut, Prudence, New Shoreham, and every other island and place within the said state southward of the latitude of the said Kinnimicut Point. The district of Providence shall comprehend all the waters, shores, bays, harbors, creeks and inlets within the said state northward of the latitude of said Kinnimicut Point. Ports of entry and delivery.The town of Newport shall be sole port of entry in the said district of Newport; and a collector, naval officer and surveyor shall be appointed, to reside at the said town of Newport; and North Kingstown, East Greenwich, Barrington, Warren, Bristol, and Pawcatuck river in Westerly, shall be ports of delivery only; and a surveyor shall be appointed, to reside at each of the ports of North Kingstown, East Greenwich, Warren, Bristol and Pawcatuck river, and the surveyor to reside at Warren shall be surveyor for the port of Barrington. The town of Providence shall be the sole port of entry in the said district of Providence; and Patuxet in the same district shall be a port of delivery only; and a collector, naval officer and surveyor shall be appointed, to reside at Providence, and a surveyor shall be appointed, to reside at Patuxet.
Regulations, exceptions, &c. 1789, ch. 2.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the regulations, provisions, exceptions, allowances, compensations, directions, authorities, penalties, forfeitures, and other matters whatsoever contained or expressed in the act, intituled “An act to regulate the collection of the duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandises imported into the United States,” and not locally inapplicable, shall have the like force and effect within the said state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, for the collection of the said duties, as elsewhere within the United States, Operation of parts of former acts to cease.and as if the same were repeated and reenacted in this present act: Provided always, and be it declared, That the thirty-ninth section of the said act, and the third section of an act, intituled1789, ch. 15. “An act to suspend part of an act, intituled An act to regulate the collection of the duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares, or merchandises imported into the United States, and for other purposes,” did, by virtue of the adoption of the constitution of the United States by the said state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, cease to operate in respect to the same.
​Act for registering vessels, and to regulate coasting trade declared in force. Act of Sept. 1, 1789, ch. 11.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the act, intituled “An act for registering and clearing vessels, regulating the coasting trade, and for other purposes,” shall, after the expiration of five days from the passing of this act, have the like force and operation within the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, as elsewhere within the United States, and as if the several clauses thereof were repeated and re-enacted in this present act.
Approved, June 14, 1790.