RC (DLC: James Madison Papers); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Hamilton; at foot of text: “The Secretary of State”; endorsed by TJ as received 28 Dec. 1792 and so recorded in SJL.

The tenth and thirteenth sections of the act concerning the duties on spirits required, effective 30 Apr. 1793, that all foreign distilled spirits except arrack and sweet cordials be imported in casks of 90 gallons or more and provided for the seizure and forfeiture of smaller containers. The seventeenth section of the act for the protection of the frontiers repealed a provision in an earlier tonnage act that had valued the French livre tournois at 18½ cents. Congress had passed both laws in May 1792 (Annals description begins Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … Compiled from Authentic Materials, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1834–56, 42 vols. All editions are undependable and pagination varies from one printing to another. The first two volumes of the set cited here have “Compiled … by Joseph Gales, Senior” on the title-page and bear the caption “Gales & Seatons History” on verso and “of Debates in Congress” on recto pages. The remaining volumes bear the caption “History of Congress” on both recto and verso pages. Those using the first two volumes with the latter caption will need to employ the date of the debate or the indexes of debates and speakers. description ends , iii, 1369, 1377–8).