Chapter 899. For the relief of Meriwether Snuff and Tobacco Company, at Clarksville, Tennessee
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CHAP. 899.— An Act For the relief of Meriwether Snuff and Tobacco Company, at Clarksville, Tennessee. March 3, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in order to reimburseMeriwether Snuff and Tobacco Company, Clarksville, Tenn.Reimbursement authorized for certain revenue stamps destroyed. Meriwether Snuff and Tobacco Company, manufacturers of snuff and plug and smoking tobacco, at Clarksville, Tennessee, for the sum of three thousand and ninety-three dollars and forty-eight cents, expended by said corporation for revenue stamps, and which were destroyed while affixed to sixty thousand six-ounce bottles of snuff; 1796 nine thousand five hundred and fifty-two four-ounce bottles of snuff; thirteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-six four-ounce cans of snuff; one hundred and twenty-three packages, each containing twenty- five pounds, of manufactured plug tobacco; one hundred and eighty- nine packages, each containing fifteen pounds, of manufactured plug tobacco; one hundred packages, each containing one pound, of manufactured smoking tobacco, while in store in the Grange Warehouse, a storage warehouse in Clarksville, Tennessee, said stamps having been purchased by said Meriwether Snuff and Tobacco Company between April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in lots in which they purchased stamps:
For snuff from April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, amounting to one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars; for manufactured tobacco between same dates, one thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars’ worth; for snuff between May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three thousand one hundred and twenty dollars’ worth, and for manufactured tobacco between said dates, one thousand and forty-four dollars’ worth; and between June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and June, thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for snuff, nine hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents’ worth, and for manufactured tobacco between said dates, two hundred and seventy dollars’ worth; and stamps of three and three-eighths cents denomination being upon each of said sixty thousand six-ounce bottles of snuff, and a stamp of two and one-quarter cents on each of the nine thousand five hundred and fifty-two four-ounce bottles of snuff, and a stamp of two and one-quarter cents on each of the thirteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-six four-ounce cans, and a stamp of two dollars and twenty-five cents on each of the one hundred and twenty-three packages, each package containing twenty-five pounds of manufactured plug tobacco; and stamps of the value of one dollar and thirty-five cents on each of the one hundred and eighty-nine packages, each containing fifteen pounds of manufactured plug tobacco; and a stamp of nine cents on each of the. one hundred one- pound packages of manufactured smoking tobacco; each of said bottles, cans, and packages containing the quantity indicated when destroyed by fire on the morning of the fifth day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; said stamps having been affixed to said bottles, cans, and packages before they were stored in said Grange Warehouse; that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the said Meriwether Snuff and Tobacco Company, out of the money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three thousand and ninety-three dollars and forty-eight cents, as restitution and reimbursement for the stamps destroyed, or issue to said Meriwether Snuff and Tobacco Company stamps of like denomination and value.
Approved, March 3, 1901.