Chapter 640. To refund the amount of duties paid in Porto Rico upon articles imported from the several States from April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to May first, nineteen hundred, to confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to render judgment thereon, and making an appropriation therefor
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CHAP. 640.— An Act To refund the amount of duties paid in Porto Rico upon articles imported from the several States from April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to May first, nineteen hundred, to confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to render judgment thereon, and making an appropriation therefor. April 29, 1902. [[Public, No. 89](/us/pl/57/89).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Porto Rico.
Duties to be refunded. Jurisdiction conferred on Court of Claims. That jurisdiction be, and is hereby, conferred upon the Court of Claims of the United States of all claims against the United States arising out of the payment of customs duties to the military authorities in the island of Porto Rico upon articles imported from the several States, which articles were entered at the several ports of entry in Porto Rico from and including April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to May first, nineteen hundred, and the Court of Claims is empowered and directed to ascertain the amounts of such duties paid during said period and to enter judgment against the United States for the several amounts so paid, with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum from the several dates of payment of such duties to the dates of such judgments, respectively, in all actions for the recovery of such duties now pending in the Court of Claims and in all actions for the recovery of such duties which may he brought in said court within six months from the date of the passage of this Act.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the certificationPayment of judgments. of such judgments, or any of them, from which the United States does not take an appeal, is authorized to pay the same. Approved, April 29, 1902.