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Private Law 40–XLII
refunding Duties paid under Protest on the Importation from France of a Bell donated to the Use of St. Mary’s Institute and Notre Dame University, Indiana.
Approved April 11, 1868
Statutory text
An Act
refunding Duties paid under Protest on the Importation from France of a Bell donated to the Use of St. Mary’s Institute and Notre Dame University, Indiana.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury
Repayment to Rev. Edward Sorin of custom duties paid under protest.
is hereby authorized and directed to refund to Reverend Edward Sorin, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of duties paid by him under protest to the collector of the port of New York in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, on a bell donated and imported from France for the use of St. Mary’s Institute and Notre DameFORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 42, 44, 45, 47, 56. 1868. University, institutions incorporated by the State of Indiana for philosophical and literary purposes.
Approved, .