Chapter 429.
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CHAP. 429.— An act for the relief of Thomas Mathews and others.March 2, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Importers, Oswego, N, Y. Claim of certain, to be investigated. Names. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to investigate the claims of Thomas Mathews, for the sum of fifty-four dollars and eighty cents; H. A. Crane, for the sum of thirty-seven dollars and eighty cents;
William McChesney, for the sum of twenty dollars and twenty cents; John K. Post and Company, for the sum of three hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty cents; E. W. Rathburn and Company, for the sum of five hundred and eighty-five dollar’s and twenty cents; Irwin Sloan, for the of six hundred and eleven dollars and forty cents; C. C. Morton, for the sum of one hundred and three dollars and twenty cents; Charles H. Getman, for the sum of one hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty cents;
Edward Monen, for the sum of one hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixty cents; Smith Murdock and Company for the sum of one hundred and seven dollars and sixty cents; Daniel L. Couch, for the sum of one hundred and forty-two dollars and eighty cents; Failing and Pratt, for the sum of seventy-one dollars and forty cents; Failing and Rundell, for the sum of forty-five dollars and sixty cents; L. A. Card, for the sum of seventy-five dollars and twenty cents; E. L. and 8. Thornton, for the sum of thirty-five dollars and eighty cents;
Paige, Fairchild and Company, for the sum of sixty-four dollars; D. P. Fairchild, fur the sum of fifty-five dollars and twenty cents; O. M. Bond and Company, for the sum of forty-nine dollars and twenty cents; J. P. Wetmore, for the sum of thirty-two dollars: Ross and Company, for the sum of seventy-two dollars and sixty cents; Bond and Jenkins, for the sum of twenty-three dollars and twenty cents; Crane. Belden and Company, for the sum of forty-six dollars and twenty cents; Bond Kin-yon and Company, for the sum of eight dollars and forty cents;
Kin-yon, Wright and Company, for the sum of forty-one dollars and eighty cents; Charles O’Harra, for the sum of ten dollars and forty cents; Page and Company, for the sum of seven dollars and twenty cents; Hegemon and Murdock, for the sum of thirty-five dollars and sixty cents; Cheeney, Ames and Company, for the sum of ten donax’s and eighty cents, now or formerly importers in the customs district of Oswego, New York, being the several amounts of fees alleged to have been unlawfully collected of them respectively, by collectors of customs at the port of Oswego.
New York, from the first day of April eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, inclusive, under section twenty-six hundred and fifty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United StatesR. S., sec. 2654, p. 624 Payment. Report. (Second edition): and in case he shall be satisfied that such claims or any part or parts thereof, were unlawfully collected, he shall refund 1310 the same to the said firms or parties, or their legal representatives, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated. .
Approved, March 2, 1889.