Chapter LIX. for the Relief of Samuel A
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Chap. LIX.— An Act for the Relief of Samuel A. Belden and Company. Feb. 10, 1855. *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 directed to audit and settle an account of the duties paid by Samuel A. Belden and Company, to theSettlement of account of and claim of S. A. Belden and Co. officers of the United States charged with their collection, in the city of Matamoras, in the Republic of Mexico, whilst that city was in the military possession of the United States, upon merchandise, except tobacco, imported by them into Matamoras during that period, which, after the restoration of peace between the two countries, they were deprived of, either in the form in which imported, or in the proceeds of sales, by illegal seizure, confiscation, sequestration, or their forced abandonment of the same by the judicial authorities of the Mexican government, and pay the 848 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 61, 62, 63. 1855. amount thus ascertained to the said Samuel A. Belden and Company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the execution by them of a proper and legal assignment to the United States of all their right to the amount so refunded when recovered from the government of Mexico. Approved, February 10, 1855.