Public Law 57–61

Court of Claims.

Claims for refund of duties on steel blooms referred to.

That jurisdiction be, and is hereby, given to the Court of Claims (notwithstanding any statutory bar of limitation, and notwithstanding the requirements of the statutes as to payment under protest, appeal to the Secretary of the Treasury, and notice of suits before bringing suits

R. S. Title XXXIV, chs. 6,7, and 8, pp, 561–581.

ordinarily in such cases, as prescribed in Title thirty-four (collection of duties), chapters six, seven, and eight, Revised Statutes) to hear, try, determine, and render judgment as in an original suit, with right of appeal as in other cases, the claims of J. F. Bailey and Company; H. E. Collins and Company; Edgar Thompson Steel Works. Limited; Carnegie Brothers and Company, Limited; James Lee and Company; Downing Sheldon and Company; R. F. Downing and Company; Albany and Rensselaer Iron and Steel Company; Joliet Steel Company; Cleveland Rolling Mill Company; O. L. Garrison, for Vulcan Steel Company and Saint Louis Ore and Steel Company; Saint Albans Iron and Steel Company; Godeffroy and Company, for the Albany and Rensselaer Iron and Steel Company; Oliver L. Garrison; A. E. Godeffroy and Company; James Johnston; Clarke, Post and Martin, agents for Springfield Iron Company; Post, Martin and Company, agents for Springfield Iron Company; Springfield Iron Company, of Springfield. Illinois, Charles W. Matthews; Harry C. Arbuckle, and Brown Brothers and Company, agents for Charles W. Matthews; E. Samuels and Company; Henry W. Oliver, junior; A. H. Childs, agent for Henry W. Oliver, junior; Lewis. Oliver and Phillips; Schrader and Ellery; Peter Wright and Sons, agents for Cambria Iron Company; Diamond State Iron Company; Brown Brothers and Company and C. B. Smyth, agents for Diamond State Iron Company; Interstate Improvement and Construction Company; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, agents for Interstate. Improvement and Construction Company; Charles H. and Eugene Odell, agents for Sandusky Rolling Mill and Manufacturing Company and Northern Pacific Railroad Company; Northern Pacific Railroad Company; Drexel, Morgan and Company; A. H. Barney and Robert Garrett and Son, agents for Northern Pacific Railroad Company; E. S. Wheeler and Company, and Edgemore Iron Company, for refund of import duties paid by them in excess of the duties imposed by law on steel blooms imported by them during the years eighteen hundred and

Payment of judgment.

seventy-nine to eighteen hundred and eighty-two, both years inclusive; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of such judgment as shall be ren-dered by the Court of Claims under the provisions of this Act;

Provisos.

Restrictions.

Limit for filing petition.

Provided, That the adjudication shall be for such sums only as were paid in excess of legal duty: And provided further, That their petition shall be filed in said court within six months after the passage of this Act.