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 is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Benjamin Adams and Company, George Howe and Company, Thomas P. Cushing, Dexter and Almy, Gill Wheelock, and Carter and Coolidge, the additional duties paid by them, severally, over and above five per cent. ad valorem imposed by the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, on certain milled and fulled cloths, known by the name of "plains, kerseys, and Kendal cottons," which were imported by them, respectively, under the act of fourteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and placed in the public stores, according to the terms of said act, prior to the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three: Provided, That satisfactory proof shall be furnished to the Secretary of the Treasury that said goods were in the actual custody of the public officers on the third day of March aforesaid, and that said duties have not been returned in debentures on the exportation of said merchandise: And provided, also, That the whole amount to be thus refunded, as having been overpaid, shall not exceed two thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars.

Approved, August 14, 1848.