Chapter CCLVIII. for the Relief of the United States and Brazil Steamship Company
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CHAP. CCLVIII.— An Act for the Relief of the United States and Brazil Steamship Company.July 14, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the TreasurySums paid in New York for tonnage taxes upon certain vessels of the United States and Brazil Steamship Company to be refunded.1864, ch. 98.Vol. xiii. p. 93. be, and he is hereby, authorized to refund to the United States and Brazil Steamship Company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, all sums heretofore collected at the custom-house at New York city by way of tonnage taxes upon the vessels of said company employed in mail service between the United States and Brazil, under the provisions of the act of twenty-eight May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An act authorizing the establishment of ocean mail steamship service between the United States and Brazil,” notwithstanding that such sums were paid without due legal protest and appeal: *Provided,* That satisfactory evidence shall be produced to the said SecretaryProviso. that at the time the said taxes were imposed the said vessels were in Brazil specially exempted from similar exactions to which other vessels were in the ports of that country liable.
Approved, July 14, 1870.