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United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5
United States Congress
Public Acts of the Twenty-Fifth Congress, Third Session, Chapter 74
3848754United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Fifth Congress, Third Session, Chapter 74United States Congress


March 3, 1839.

Chap. LXXIV.An Act for the relief of umbrella-makers.

All excess of duty beyond what would have been required if the provisoes of 10th and 12th clauses of 2d sec. act 14th July, 1832, ch. 227, had at all times been suspended in their operation, as they were by act 2d March, 1833, ch. 62, refunded, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be refunded, out of the Treasury, to such umbrella-makers as have imported umbrella-stretchers since the passage of the act entitled “An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports,” approved the fourteenth day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two, all excess of duty, beyond what such importers would have been required to pay, if the provisoes contained in the tenth and twelfth clauses of the second section of said act had at all times since its passage been suspended in their operation in the same manner as they were suspended by the act of the second of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-three, entitled “An act to explain and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, passed the fourteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, so far as relates to hardware and certain manufactures of copper and brass and other articles,” and by other subsequent acts of like character.

Approved, March 3, 1839.