Chapter CXIX. *for the Relief of S
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Chap. CXIX.— An Act *for the Relief of S. Morris Waln.* March 3, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Duties to be refunded to S. M. Wain.Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to pay to S. Morris Wain, who survived Henry Percival, lately in partnership under the firm of S. Morris Wain and company, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the amount of duties paid on one hundred and sixty quarter casks, and sixty-two Indian barrels of Malaga wine, imported in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Canning; one hundred and eighty-nine quarter casks of Malaga wine, imported in May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Virginia; nine pipes and one quarter cask of Madeira wine, imported in September, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Forest; ninety-nine casks of Oporto wine, imported in the brig Elbe, via New York, and re-shipped under bond, per schooner Perseverance, to Philadelphia, in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; and seven pipes and seventeen hogsheads of Sicily Madeira wine, imported via Boston, and re-shipped under bond, per brig Echo, to Philadelphia, in June, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, which wines were destroyed in Philadelphia, by fire, while in store in the custody of the custom-house: *Provided,* Proviso.That the Secretary of the Treasury be furnished with satisfactory proof that the goods were so destroyed by fire, and were not insured.
Approved, March 3, 1853.