Chapter CCXXX. *to refund, to the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company certain duties paid upon railroad iron.*July 7, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,Duties on two importations of spikes to be refunded. authorized and directed to refund to the Georgia Railroad an
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Chap. CCXXX.— An Act *to refund, to the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company certain duties paid upon railroad iron.*July 7, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,Duties on two importations of spikes to be refunded. authorized and directed to refund to the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, for the use of the said company, the duties paid by the said company, upon two several importations of spikes, to be used in the construction of their railroad, the one made into the port of Savannah, Georgia, on the twenty-first day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and the other into the same port, on the eighteenth day of May, of the same year, the whole amount of duties paid and to be refunded upon both importations being three thousand three hundred and Proviso.sixty-one dollars and forty-two cents: *Provided*, That, before any repayment of the said duties shall be made, the said company shall furnish proof, to the satisfaction of the said Secretary’, that their orders upon England for the said spikes were made and transmitted before the passage of the act of the first day of July, eighteen hundred and Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 233.thirty-six, entitled “An act explanatory of the act entitled ‘An act to release from duty iron prepared for, and actually laid on, railways and inclined planes,’ ” that it was out of the power of the said company, after the passage of the said act, to countermand their orders for the said spikes, and that the said spikes have been actually used in the construction of the railways or inclined planes for which they were ordered and imported.
Approved, July 7, 1838.