Chapter CCLVIII. *to refund to the New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Railroad Company certain duties paid by them upon iron imported for the construction of their railroad.*July 7, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and heDuties on two imporatations of spikes, &c., to be refunded.
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Chap. CCLVIII.— An Act *to refund to the New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Railroad Company certain duties paid by them upon iron imported for the construction of their railroad.*July 7, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and heDuties on two imporatations of spikes, &c., to be refunded. hereby is, directed to refund to the New Castle and Frenchtown Turn-pike and Railroad Company the duties paid by them to the collector of the customs for the port of Wilmington, in the state of Delaware, upon two several importations of spikes, clamps, and bolts, or other fastenings for the rails upon the railroad of the said company, the one made on the twelfth day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in the ship Kutuzoff, and the other on the twenty seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in the ship Isaac Hicks, the duties to be refunded amounting, upon both importations, to the sum of Proviso.two thousand and three dollars and eighty-three cents: *Provided*, That the said company shall first prove to the satisfaction of the said Secretary, that the said duties were properly chargeable to and paid by the said company, and were not covered by their contract with their agents, A. and G.
Ralston and Company, for the purchase and importation of the said iron; that the amount of money above named was paid upon spikes, clamps, and bolts, or other fastenings, for the rails upon the road of the said company; that the orders for the said spikes, clamps, and bolts, or other fastenings, were given and transmitted beyond their reach before the passage, of the act of the first of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in relation to railroad iron; that it was not in the power of the said company, after Act of July 1, 1836, ch. 233.the passage of the said last mentioned act, to countermand their said orders without detriment and loss to the company; and that the spikes, clamps, and bolts, or other fastenings, upon which the duties are to be refunded by virtue of this act, have been actually used in the construction of their railroad.
Approved, July 7, 1838.