Squatter sovereign., 1855-06-26
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AN ACT to amend FEAn Act to carry into Ef
feet a Treaty between the United States and
Great Britain,' signed on the fifth June eigh-
teen hundred and fftv-four and aDnroTed
August fifth. eighteen hundred and fifty-four.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re-
presentatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That from and after the
date when the eciprocity treaty OF the fifth
June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four entered
into between Great Britain and the United States
shall go into effect, the Secretary of the Treas
ury shall be, an.l he is hereby, authorised and
required, to refund out OF any money in the
treasury, to the several persons entitled thereto
such sums of money as shall have been coilec-
ted as duties, on q fish of all kinds, the p-o-
ducts of fish, and of all other creatures living
in the water,' imported into the United States
from and after the eleventh day of September
eighteen hundred and fifty-four. the date of the
PRONUNCIATION by the President of the United
States of the reciprocity treaty aforesaid on
proof, satisfactory to the said secretary that
the articles aforesaid were the products of some
one OF the British provinces of New Bruns-
wick, Canada, Nova Scotia. Newfoundland. or
Prince Edwards Island, and imported there
from into the United States, and duties paid
thereon, which have not been refunded on ex-
port; and he is further authorised and required
from and after the day the treaty aforesaid shall
go into effect, to cancel, on like satisfactory
proof, any warehouse bonds to secure the du-
ties, that may have been given for any of said
| articles imported as aforesaid.
SEC. 2. And he it further enacted, That from
and after the date when the reciprocity treaty
of the fifth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-
| four, entered into between Great Britain and
| the United States, shall go into effect in the
| manner therein prescribed. the Secretary of the
| Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorised
| to refund out of any money in the treasury not
| otherwise appropriated, to the persons entitled
| thereto, such sums of money as shall have been
collected as duties on any of the articles emu
! merated in the schedule annexed TO the third
article of the reciprocity treaty aforesaid inn
| ported into the United States from the British
provinces of Canada, New Brunswick, and No
va Scotia, respectively, since the date of the
| acts of their respective governments admitting
like articles into said provinces from the Uni
| ted States free OF duty, on proof, satisfactory
/ to the said Secretary. that the articles so i'm
| ported were the products of Canada, New Bruns-
wick, or Nova Scotia, as the case may be, and
! imported therefrom into the United States and
| that the duties Were duly paid thereon and he
| is further authorised and required to cancel,
| from and after the date OF the treaty aforesaid
| shall go into effect, on like satisfactory proof
any warehouse bonds to secure duties which
| may have been given for any of the said arti-
| cles imported as aforesaid. And the Secretary
| of the Treasury is also hereby invested with
| the same authority and power to refund the da-
| ties or cancel the warehouse bonds on any of
| the articles enumerated in said treaty. the pro-
/ dace of Prince Edwards Island or Newfount.-
land, respectively, on said treaty going into op-
Grafton, should it be proved to the satisfaction
! OF the said secretary, that Prince Edwards Is
| land, or Newfoundland have admitted all the
! articles enumerated ia said treaty from the Uni
ted States, free of duty, prior to said duty GO
| ing into operation.
! Approved March ?, 1855.