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 TIIIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 145. 1855. 633 States of America in Congress assembled, That; from and after the date when the reciprocity treaty of the fifth June, eighteen hundred and d §"f““§““{§d °*` fifty-four, entered into between Great Britain and the United States, shall P;i§€;,,R§~§,_ y go into effect, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, to refund out of any money in the treasury, to the several persons entitled thereto, such sums of money as shall have been collected as duties, ou “iish of all kinds, the products of fish, and of all other creatures living in the water/’ imported into the United States from and after the eleventh day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, the date of the promutgation by the President of the United States of the reciprocity treaty aforesaid, on proof, satisfactory to the said secretary, that the articles aforesaid were the products of some one of the British provinces of New Brunswick, Canada, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, or Prince Edwards Island, and imported therefrom into the United States, and duties duly paid thereon, which have not been refunded on export; and he is further authorized and required, from and after the Ganeeuationof day the treaty aforesaid shall go into effect, to cancel, on like satisfactory b°¤d"·· proof, any warehouse bonds to secure the duties, that may have been given ibr any of said articles imported as aforesaid. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the date when R8,-uudiug of the reciprocity treaty of the fifth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, duties on other entered into between Great Britain and the United States, shall go into ”*i°]°S· effect, in the manner therein prescribed, the Secretary of the Treasury _ shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to refund out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the persons entitled thereto, such sums of money as shall have been collected as duties on any of the articles enumerated in the schedule annexed to the third article of the reciprocity treaty aforesaid, imported into the United States from the British provinces of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, respectively, since the date of the acts of their respective governments admitting like articles into said provinces from the United States free of duty, on proof, satisfactory to the said secretary, that the articles so imported were the products of Canada, New Brunswick, or Nova Scotia, as the case may be, and imported therefrom into the United States, and that the duties were duly paid thereon; and he is further authorized and required to cancel, from and after the date the treaty aforesaid shall go into effect, on like satisfactory proof, any warehouse bonds to secure duties which may have been given for any of the said articles imported as aforesaid. And the Secretary of the Treasury is also hereby invested with the same authority and power to refund the duties or cancel the warehouse bonds on any of the articles enumerated in said treaty, the produce of Prince Cauceuation of Edward’s Island or Newfoundland, respectively, on said treaty going into bonds. operation, should it be proved, to the satisfaction of the said secretary, that Prince Edwards Island, or Newfoundland, have admitted all of the articles enumerated in said treaty from the United States, free of duty, prior to said treaty going into operation. Approved, March 2, 1855. CHAP. CXLV. —-An Act authorizing the Corporate Authorities of Georgetown to impose Mamh zi 186*1 Additional Taxes, and jor other Purposes. """_"""' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the mayor, recorder, Tax mwhormd aldermen, and common council, of Georgetown, be, and they are hereby, in Gggyggmwum authorized and empowered to lay and collect a special annual tax of Secure ;¤l§¢FiP· seventy-five cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, upon every g§§£,tR°?R_m°` hundred dollars of property by law now taxable within the corporate ‘ limits of said town, and all money vested or held in any banking, insurance, brokerage, or exchange company or institution, upon all State or v01.. x. PUB. -—— SO