The first section of the act of 1817 prohibits the importation of any goods or wares from any foreign port into the United States, except in two cases:
1st. They may be imported in vessels of the United States; or,
2d. In such foreign vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of the country of which the goods are the production, or from...
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