Chapter 154. for the relief of Somerville and Davis
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CHAP. 154.— An Act for the relief of Somerville and Davis.June 8, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Somerville and Davis.Refund of cotton duties. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to adjust the claim of Somerville and Davis, of Galveston, Texas, for excess of duties paid by them on twelve hundred and sixty-eight bundles of cotton-ties imported by them, per steamship China, at the port of Boston, July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and to refund to them the amount found to have been paid in excess of the duties chargeable by law.
Approved, June 8, 1880.