Chapter LXXII. for the Relief of the West Feliciana Railroad and the Georgia Railroad and Banking Companies
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Chap. LXXII.— An Act for the Relief of the West Feliciana Railroad and the Georgia Railroad and Banking Companies. 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 to refund to the West Feliciana Duties on railroad iron to be refunded to West Feliciana E. E. Co.Railroad Company the amount paid by them in judgments obtained against said company, by suits instituted on duty bonds given by said company for the importation of certain bars of railroad iron imported at New Orleans, in the month of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and at New York, in the same month of the same year:
Proviso.*Provided,* That it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the said railroad bars have been and are now permanently laid down upon the railroad of the aforesaid company, except such part thereof as may be proved to the satisfaction of said secretary to have been lost by the sinking of the steamboat Choctaw, in an attempt to transport the same from New Orleans to Bayou Sara. Sec. 2. Also, to the Georgia R. R. and Banking Co. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to refund to the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company the duties collected on certain railroad iron imported Proviso.by said company: *Provided,* That said company shall prove to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the rails so imported were actually laid down at or about the time when the rails of the Red River Company, the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, and the Monroe Railroad Company were laid down—on the rails of which companies Congress has already remitted the duties.
Approved, February 10, 1855.