Chapter 29. to admit free of duty the wreckage of the ships Trenton and Vandalia, presented by the United States to the King of Samoa
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CHAP. 29.— An Act to admit free of duty the wreckage of the ships Trenton and Vandalia, presented by the United States to the King of Samoa.January 10, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Wreckage of “Trenton” and “Vandalia” to be admitted free of duty. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, directed to admit free of duty the wreckage from the ships Trenton and Vandalia, presented by the United States Government to the King of Samoa for the benefit of the Samoan people, and to refund the sum of seven thousand one hundred and twenty-eightRefund of amount collected. dollars, being the amount of duties paid to the collector of San Francisco, to the proper parties in interest.
Approved, January 10, 1893.