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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS or mz UNITED STATES, Passed at the third session, which was begun and held at the Citu of Washington, in the District of Columbia, an Monday, the thirdyday of December, 1838, and ended on the third day of March, 1839. Mrarvrm VAN Bunnrx, President; Rrenann M. Jomrsou, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Wrnnram R. KING, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the twenty-sixth day of February; James K. POLK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE III. Cru?. V- -—-An Act for the relief of Bradbury Y! Jipson. 1w_ 25, 183% Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary pension cmg, of \Var be authorized and directed to issue the pension certificate for a ficate granted pension granted by act approved June twenty-eighth, one thousand ‘;"é3‘éf Jgm eight hundred and thirty-eight, to Bradley T. J ipson, to Bradbury T. 1gé,,,, iQ:,;,},. J ipson for whom said pension was intended by said act. rented. Arwrrovrzn, January 25, 1839. Srururs III. Gun. VL- .d·n Act to remit or rqand to the Philadelphia, Pldlmington, and Feb. 6, 1839. Baltimore Railroad Cbmpany, the duties upon certain railroad iron. “·*·‘*""‘ Be it enacted, ¢§·e., That it shall be, and is hereby made, the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, to extend to the Philadelphia, Wilming- Du,,,,,, 0,, ce,. ton and Baltimore Railroad Company, or to the Philadelphia, Wilming- tain rail—road ton, and Baltimore Railroad Company, incorporated by the state of ;!`°*:,‘g b° "' Pennsylvania, the Wilmington and Susquehanna Railroad Company, un ° ` 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 Ac, ,,;;,,1, ,4, release from duty iron prepared for, and actually laid on, railways and 1832, eb.250. inclined pl anes," as to any importations of spikes, pins, or other fasten— ings 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 p,,,,,;,,, 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 couutermanded Acta; Jury L without detriment and loss to the said company; and; mat the said com- 1836, eh. 238. 94 ms)