Chapter CCLVI. to refund certain duties upon railroad iron, paid by the New York and Harlaem Railroad Company.July 7, 1838. Be it enacted, &c.,That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the president of the New York and Harlaem Duties on railroad iron to be refunded

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Chap. CCLVI.— An Act *to refund certain duties upon railroad iron, paid by the New York and Harlaem Railroad Company.*July 7, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the president of the New York and Harlaem Duties on railroad iron to be refunded.Railroad Company, for the use of the said Company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine hundred and five dollars and sixty-three cents, that being the sum paid by the said company, to the collector of the port of New York, as the duty upon six hundred and ninety-two bars or rails of iron, imported by them for the use of their railroad, on the thirteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and, in consequence of unforeseen and unanticipated obstacles to the construction of the said road, not actually laid down thereupon until after the thirteenth day of August, one thousandAct of July 14, 1832, ch. 250. eight hundred and thirty-six, so as to entitle them to an exemption from duty under the act of the fourteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

Approved, July 7, 1838.