I wouldn't know if there was such an act or not. I have never tried to find such an act. Somehow you have gotten it confused with the "Navigation act of 1817."
If there was, you could simply link to it and I will be able to look for myself but you won’t do that because it doesn’t exist.
Wishful thinking. It most certainly does exist. I have linked to it in the past.
I now perceive you just want to look for contradictions to what I am telling you it did, and I wonder why I should be motivated to help you undermine my statements?
You are not interested in an honest debate. You simply want to disprove things you don't want to believe because they would overturn your world view of what happened, and you will simply not allow your world view to be changed by actual facts.
I think this will prove you wrong in your assertion that the act did not exist.
But help you find it? Why should I bother? You aren't even trying to be sincere. "X" can probably find it for you if you can't.
Sorry for the typo and autocorrect’s intervention. I hope I didn’t ruin your day.
Your link does not go to the text of the act. That’s what I’m looking for. I’ve yet to find any text for such an act, nor any mention of it in the Congressional record. I don’t doubt that legislation covering shipping from that period does exist. I do doubt it did what you and your tangential sources claim it did.
Now, about Charleston….?
I found it! An actual image of the act, nor just the text. So yes, Dim you were right. There was legislation regarding navigation in 1817!
I have no issue with the truth, or acknowledging when you are trading in actual historical facts. The problem is you do so very infrequently. The legislation of course didn’t do half of what you claimed it did. It will take me a while to type out the verbiage. Of course I’ll link the original.
But first we need to examine the factor of factors in the cotton trade, of which you seem to know little.