June 28, 1848.
Chap. LXXXVII. — An Act for the Relief of Barclay and Livingston, and Smith, Thurgar, and Company.
Excess of duties paid by Barclay and Livingston, and Smith, Thurgar, and Company,
on jute grass to be refunded.
1842, ch. 270.
Proviso.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to
pay to Barclay and Livingston, and Smith, Thurgar, and Company, merchants in the city
of New York, any excess of duty paid by them to the collector of the port of New York,
upon the importations of jute grass, under the name of India matting, India weed,
hemp carpeting,
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or jute carpeting, under the tariff law of eighteen hundred and forty-two, and imported in the years eighteen hundred and forty-two, eighteen hundred and forty-three,
eighteen hundred and forty-four, and eighteen hundred and forty-five, beyond what
the same were legally chargeable with; said sum to be paid out of any moneys in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, The total amount does not exceed twelve hundred dollars; and that if either of the
persons hereinbefore named is in any manner indebted to the United States, the sum
so payable to such indebted person, or so much thereof as will be necessary, shall
be retained in set-off to such indebtedness.
Approved, June 28, 1848.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Private Acts, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 720-21