Chapter XIII. to admit certain Machinery imported from foreign Countries free of Duty
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CHAP. XIII.— An Act to admit certain Machinery imported from foreign Countries free of Duty.Feb. 2, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatThe Calcasieu sulphur. &c., company, may import tree of duty certain machinery, &c., within one year.Limit to value. the Calcasieu sulphur and mining company of New Orleans be, and is hereby, permitted to import, free of duty, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, certain machinery and accompanying implements for the purpose of and to be used only in, making a series of experiments in mining for sulphur in the parish of Calcasieu, in the State of Louisiana: *Provided,* That the value of such importation shall not exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, and that said machinery and implements be imported within one year from and after the passage of this act.
Approved, February 2, 1872.