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Private Law 23–CCLXV
for the relief of Ezekiel Foster and Company, of Eastport, state of Maine.
Approved June 30, 1834
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Ezekiel Foster and Company, of Eastport, state of Maine.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Ezekiel Foster and Company, out of any
Certain discriminating duties to be refunded.
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-one cents, being the amount paid by them for discriminating duties on the cargo of the British brig Superior; which vessel arrived and entered at the port of Eastport, district of Passamaquoddy, on the sixteenth September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, under the President’s proclamation of twenty-fourth August, of the same year; which discriminating duties were charged in consequence of a treasury circular, dated fourteenth September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, not known by the collector at the time the said brig Superior had been entered at the said port.
Approved, .