Chapter 53. For the relief of Dwight Hall
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CHAP. 53.— An Act For the relief of Dwight Hall.April 2, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of .Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Dwight Hall.Payment of claim for taxes on cigars destroyed by fire. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to investigate the claim made against the United States by Dwight Hall, of Wallingford, Connecticut, for the amount paid by him to the collector of internal revenue for the second district of Connecticut as taxes and penalties upon thirty thousand cigars manufactured by him and previous to the payment of said tax or penalty claimed to have been destroyed by an accidental fire, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the said Dwight Hall, or his personal representatives, or the person or persons who may be lawfully entitled thereto, any sum of money found on such investigation to be equitably due on account of payment of said tax and penalty, or either of them, not to exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents, and the said sum when paid to be in full satisfaction and discharge of all claim as tax or penalty on said cigars.
Approved, April 2, 1894.