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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 9 STAT. · Aug. 8, 1846 · Chapter CXVII

Chapter CXVII. for the Relief of William B

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Chap. CXVII.— An Act for the Relief of William B. Lang. Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Wm. B. Lang to be paid $415.22, provided requisite proof be given to Secretary of the Treasury. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay to William B. Lang, of Boston, Massachusetts, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty-two cents: *Provided*, It shall be proved to his satisfaction that the collector of the customs for the port of Boston has assessed and collected from the said William B.
Lang, on the importation of sheetsteel, duties to this amount, greater than the said steel was liable by law to be charged with. Approved, August 8, 1846.
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