Chapter 1016. To refund the amount of duties paid on merchandise brought into the United States from Porto Rico between April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and May first, nineteen hundred, and also on merchandise brought into the United States from the Philippine Islands between April eleventh, eigh
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CHAP. 1016.— An Act To refund the amount of duties paid on merchandise brought into the United States from Porto Rico between April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and May first, nineteen hundred, and also on merchandise brought into the United States from the Philippine Islands between April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and March eighth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes. March 3, 1901. [[Public, No. 166](/us/pl/57/166).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Customs revenue.Refunding of duties cm goods from Porto Rico and Philippine Islands.[R.
S., sec. 3689, p. 724](/us/rs/s3689/p724). That authority be, and the same is hereby, given the Secretary of the Treasury to refund and repay front the appropriation “To repay to importers the excess of deposits for unascertained duties, or duties or other moneys paid under protest,” made by section thirty-six hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes, moneys paid to the United States without pro-test as duties and as fines on merchandise brought into the United Vol. 30, p. 1754.States from Porto Rico between April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, when the ratifications of the treaty of peace of December tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, with Spain were exchanged, Vol. 31, p. 77.and May first, nineteen hundred, when the Act entitled “An Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes,” approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred, went into effect, and also on merchandise brought into the United States from the Philippine Islands between April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and March eighth, nineteen hundred and *Ante,* p. 54.two, the date of the passage of “An Act temporarily to provide revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes”: *Provided, **Proviso.*Presentation of claims.That such claims shall be presented under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and within one year from the date of the passage of this Act.
Approved, March 3, 1901.