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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · March 15, 1832 · Chapter L

Chapter L. for the relief of J

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Chap. L.— An Act for the relief of J. P. and E. B. Penny. March 15, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United Statescertain duty and penalty to be refunded. refund to J. P. and E. B. Penny, merchants in the city of Mexico, or their agent or factors, the excess of duty on one hundred and five bales of jalap root, which was appraised in New York in June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, at twenty-eight dollars per quintal, instead of twenty-four dollars, the actual and invoice price, as also the fifty per centum penalty imposed thereon, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 15, 1832
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