United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 24
Chap. XXIV.—An Act to authorize the South Carolina Railroad Company to import certain pipes and machinery free of duty.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Sec. Treas. to prescribe the regulations of importation. That the South Carolina Railroad Company be, and hereby is, authorized to import into the United States, without payment of duties thereon, all such pipes as have been or may be invented or used for the application of the atmospheric pressure as a propelling power on railroads, not to exceed what is sufficient for a road one mile in length, and also all the machinery connected therewith, or which is necessary for the use and working thereof, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
Approved, February 26, 1845.