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Volume 21

Public Law 46–37

to amend section three thousand and twenty of the Revised Statutes.

Approved March 10, 1880

Statutory text

An Act

to amend section three thousand and twenty of the Revised Statutes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section three thousand and twenty of the Revised Statutes be so amended as to read as follows:

Sec. 3020.

Where firearms, scales, balances, shovels, spades, axes, hatchets, hammers, plows, cultivators, mowing-machines, and reapers, manufactured with stock or handles made of wood grown in the United States, are exported for benefit of drawback under the preceding section, such articles shall be entitled to such drawback in all cases where the imported material exceeds one-half of the value of the material used. And where cans, manufactured in whole or in part of imported material, filled with products grown or produced in the United States, arc exported for benefit of such drawback, the same shall, in all cases, be entitled to the drawback provided for in the preceding section where the imported material used in the manufacture of such cans shall equal seventy per centum of the value of all the material used in the manufacture thereof.

Approved, March 10, 1880.

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