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Payment of debentures, &c. in London and other ports.
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25. Every sum of money which shall be due in the port of London upon any debenture certificate or other instrument for the payment of any money out of the duties of Customs, shall be paid out of any money so paid into the Bank of England on account of the said Commissioners of Customs, in accordance with the rules and regulations for the time being in respect thereof, and every such payment shall be allowed by the Comptroller and Auditor General of Public Accounts in the settling or auditing of the accounts of the said Commissioners of Customs; and when any such payment shall become due at any other port in the United Kingdom, the same may be paid by the collector at such port out of any of the money in his hands arising from the duties of the Customs, under the directions of the said Commissioners of Customs; and the Commissioners of Customs are hereby authorised to return any money which shall have been overpaid as duties of Customs, at any time within six years after such overpayment, on its being proved to their satisfaction that the same was overpaid in error; but no such return shall be allowed unless the claim for the same shall have been made and established within such period of six years.
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