Chapter 15. Relating to Cuban vessels
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CHAP. 15.— An Act Relating to Cuban vessels. February 10, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That vessels owned by citizens Cuban vessels to have rights of most favored nation, etc. of Cuba and documented as such by officers of the United States shall hereafter be entitled in ports of the United States to the rights and privileges of vessels of the most favored nation, and they and their cargoes shall be subject to no higher charges in ports of the United States than are imposed on the vessels and cargoes of the most favored nation in the same trade.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to Refund of dues, etc. refund, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon application and satisfactory evidence, tonnage taxes and light dues which have been imposed on vessels owned by citizens of Cuba entering ports of the United States since April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, which have been in excess of the tonnage taxes prescribed by section eleven of the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen Vol. 24, p. 81. hundred and eighty-six.
Approved, February 10, 1900.