Chapter C. for the relief of certain persons who have paid duties on certain goods imported into Castine
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Chap. C.— An Act for the relief of certain persons who have paid duties on certain goods imported into Castine. May 19, 1824. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be paid, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,Secretary of the Treasury to pay to J. Aubin and others, all sums paid by them on goods imported into Castine in 1814. to Joshua Aubin, Nathaniel W. Appleton, and to C. H. Appleton, John Tappan, William Whitehead, James Crawford, Daniel Johnson, Otis Little, David Howe, Thatcher Avery, Ebenezer Hodsdon, John Lee, Benjamin Hazletine, Samuel Adams, and James Graham, who made payment, or to their legal representatives, all sums which have been paid into the treasury as, and for, duties upon goods imported into Castine, while in possession of the British forces, during the late war with Great Britain; the same not being, by law, subject to the payment thereof; upon which goods duties were also levied by, and paid to, the British authorities, upon their importation into Castine.
Approved, May 19, 1824.