Private Law 25–VI

That it shall be, and is hereby made, the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, to extend to the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, or to the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Company, incorporated by the state of Pennsylvania, the Wilmington

Duties on certain railroad iron to be refunded.

and Susquehanna Railroad Company, incorporated by the states of Delaware and Maryland, and the Baltimore and Port Deposite Railroad Company, incorporated by the state of Maryland, of which said three last named railroad companies the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Company, first abovenamed, is composed, all the benefits of the act of the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act to

Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 250.

release from duty iron prepared for, and actually laid on, railways and inclined planes,” as to any importations of spikes, pins, or other fastenings for the rails upon the road of the said last named company, made since the passage of the act of the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, explanatory of the act last above mentioned: Provided, That the said company shall first prove, to the satisfaction of the said Secretary, that the orders for the purchase and importation of

Proviso.

the said spikes, pins, or other fastenings, were given prior to the passage of the said act of the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; that the said orders had been sent out of the country before the passage of the said act; that they could not be countermanded without detriment and loss to the said company; and that the said com-

Act of July I, 1836, ch. 233.

TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 7, 8, 9. 1839. pany shall further comply with all the provisions, requisitions, and conditions of the said act of the fourteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.