Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—SECOND SESSION.
H. R. 726.
(Report No. 34.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 17, 1849.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. John A. Rockwell, from the Committee of Claims, reported
the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of Begbie Wiseman and Co., of Glasgow, Scotland.

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10 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be in-
structed to ascertain by suitable proof whether Begbie
Wiseman and Company, of the city of Glasgow, have
been unjustly subjected to the penalties of the eighth sec-
tion of “An act reducing the duties on imports, and for
other purposes,” passed on the thirtieth July, eighteen
hundred and forty-six, as set forth in the petition
to Congress, dated December second, eighteen hun

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16 dred and forty-eight, and if he shall find that they have
not violated said law as to the matters set forth in said pe-
tition, that he cause to be refunded to them the sum of
dollars, being the penalty of twenty per cent on the
appraised value of said goods, out of any moneys in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be in- structed to ascertain by suitable proof whether Begbie Wiseman and Company, of the city of Glasgow, have been unjustly subjected to the penalties of the eighth sec- tion of “An act reducing the duties on imports, and for other purposes,” passed on the thirtieth July, eighteen hundred and forty-six, as set forth in the petition to Congress, dated December second, eighteen hun
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11 12 13 14 15 16	dred and forty-eight, and if he shall find that they have not violated said law as to the matters set forth in said pe- tition, that he cause to be refunded to them the sum of dollars, being the penalty of twenty per cent on the appraised value of said goods, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.