United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/18th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 162
Chap. CLXII.—An act for the relief of certain distillers in the United States.
The Secretary of the Treasury to refund to certain distillers in the United States such sums as they have paid into the treasury.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to refund, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the distillers of spirituous liquors, or their legal representatives, of any state or district within the United States, who, at any time since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, have used stills made according to Henry Witmer’s improvement upon Anderson’s condensing tub, and who have paid a duty upon the capacity of the globes of such stills, all the moneys which such distillers may have, respectively, paid, as a duty, on the capacity of the globes of their said stills.
Approved, May 26, 1824.