Chapter 237. For the relief of the next of kin of C
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CHAP. 237.— An Act For the relief of the next of kin of C. A. Weed and the legal representatives of A. P. H. Stewart. May 13, 1910.[[S. 2441](/us/bill/61/s/2441).][[Private, No. 71](/us/pvt/61/71).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Stewart and Company, etc. Claim for refund of internal-revenue taxes reopened.Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to reopen, consider, and adjust, any statute of limitation to the contrary notwithstanding, the claims of Stewart and Company, and A.
P. H. Stewart, agent, for internal-revenue taxes alleged to have been illegally collected between January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, on cotton purchased from the Government by the claimant and which taxes have not heretofore been refunded; and if it shall appear that said taxes were illegally collected Appropriation for amount found due.then and in that event there shall be paid, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, by way of refund, an amount not exceeding eleven thousand two hundred and eight dollars and four cents, said sum to be paid to the next of kin of C.
A. Weed and to the legal representatives of A. P. H. Stewart, formerly copartners, trading under the firm names of Stewart and Company, and A. P. H. Stewart, agent; which sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of said parties for internal-revenue taxes illegally collected on cotton purchased from the Government by the claimants during the period aforesaid and not heretofore refunded. Approved, May 13, 1910.