Chapter LI. in Addition to an Act to refund and remit the Duties on Arms imported by States, approved July ten, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. April 2, 1862. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Duties on arms, &c., extension of tim

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Chap. LI.— An Act *in Addition to an Act to refund and remit the Duties on Arms imported by States, approved July ten, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.* April 2, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Duties on arms, &c., extension of time for remitting. That the authority given to the Secretary of the Treasury to refund and remit, the duties and imposts on all arms imported into the United States by or for the account of any State as provided in the act to which this is an addition, shall extend to arms for which orders or contracts were made prior to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-two: *Provided*, That said SecretaryProviso. shall have satisfactory proofs exhibited to him that the said arms were actually purchased in a foreign country for account of a State, and that the price paid for the same by the State was only the first cost, and the usual and customary charges attending the purchase and importation of the same, exclusive of duty.

Approved, April 2, 1862.