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(BIT AUTHORITY.) .LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTVSECOND CONGRESS. Public No. 891 AN ACT extending further the right of de-j benture to the port of Key West, and altering the limits of the district of Key West. Be it enacted by ilic Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That all ships or vessels, and merchandise, arriving in the United States, from and after the first day of August next, from tho Cape of Good Hope, or from any place beyond the same, shall be admitted to make entry at the port of entry of Key West. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, hereafter, all the ports, harbors, shores, and waters, of that part of Florida extending from Indian river to Tampa Bay, and of the islands opposite and nearest thereto, be, and the same aro hereby, annexed to, and shall form a part of, the collection district of Key West. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That the proviso of the third section of the act of the soventh of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as respects the port of Key West, together with all such other parts of said act as are inconsistent with the provisions of the present act. A. STEVENSON, SpcaJcer of the House of Representatives. J. C. CALHOUN, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved, July 13, 1832. ANDREW JACKSON. Public No. 90. AN ACT authorizing the entry of vessels and merchandise arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, or beyond the same, at the port of Edgartown, in Massachusetts. Be it enacted by tJie Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first of August next, all vessels or merchandise, arriving in the United States from the Cape of Good Hope, or from any place beyond the same, may be entered at the port of Edgartown, in Massachusetts. Approved, July 13, 1832. Public, No. 91. AN ACT concerning the issuing of patents to aliens, for useful discoveries and inventions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the privileges granted to the aliens described in the first section of the act, to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for liseful discoveries and inventions to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the rights of patentees, approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred ; be extended, in like manner, to every alien,- who, at the time of petitioning for a patent, shall be a resident in the United States, and shall have declared his intention, according to law, to become a citizen thereof: Provided, That every patent granted by virtue of this act and the privileges thereto appertaining, shall cease and determine and become absolutely void without resort to any legal process to annul or cancel the same in case of a failure on the part of any patentee, for the space of one year from the issuing thereof, to introduce into public use in the United States, the in vention or improvement for which the patent shall be issued; or in case the same for any period of six months after such introduction shall not continue to be publicly used and applied in the United States, or in case of failure to become a citizen of the United States, agreeably to notice given at tho earliest period within which he shall be entitled to become a citizen of the United States. Approved, July 13, 1832. Public No. 92. AN ACT to enforce Quarantine Regulations. Be it cnactedby the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if in the opinion of the Secretarv of the Treasurv the revenue Cutters, revenue boats, or revenue otlicers, employed or authorized to be employed for the purposes of the revenue, should be. insufficient to aid in the execution of the quarantine and health laws of any State; or the regulations made pursuant thereto, the said Secretarv mav cause to be employed such additional revenue boats and revenue officers as1 be may deem necessary for tint purpose, the said revenue boats to be of such size and description as he may see proper. This act to continue in force unt.l the iourth of March, one thousand eight .liundrep1 and thirtv-threc. Approved,-July 13, 1832. Public No. 93. AN ACT to extend the time of issuina Military Land Warrants to the officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Armv, . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of. the United s

America in Congress assembled, That the time allowed for issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army shall be extended to tho first day of January eighteen hundred and thirtyfive. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the further quantity of three hundred thousand acres of land be, and the same is hereby appropriated, in addition to the quantity heretofore appropriated by the act entitled "An Act for the relief of certain officers and

soldiers of the Virginia line and navy and of the continental army during the revolutionary war," approved tho thirteenth of May, eighteen hundrod and thirty, which said appropriation shall be applied in the manner provided by the said act to the unsatisfied warrarvie which have been or may be issued as therein directed to the officers and soldiers and other3 as discribed m the first, fifth, and seventh sections of said act. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the last paragraph of the first section of the said act which authorizes the issuing of warrants upon an affidavit that the original was lost, and upon the production of an official copy thereof, shall be, and the samo is hereby repealed. Approved, July 13, 1S32. Public No. 94. AN ACT authorizing the Secretary of War to pay to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the balance of an annuity, of six thousand dollars, annually paid to said Indians, and remaining unpaid for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be authorized to pay to the Seneca tribo of Indians, tho sum of two thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, that being the balance due on the annuity payable to said Indians for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. Approved, July 13, 1832. Public No. 95. ACT concerning Tonnage Dutv on AN Spanish Vessels. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled, That no other or greater duty of tonnage be levied in the ports of the United States on vessels owned wholly by subjects of Spain, coming from a port in Spain, than shall, by the Secretary of iho 1 reasury be ascertained to have been paid on American vessels in tho ports of Spain previoug to the twentieth October, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That vessels owned wholly by Spanish subjects, coming from any of the colonies of Spain, either directly or after touching at any port or place, shall pay, in the ports of the United States, the same rate of duty on tonnage that shall be levied on American vessels in the Spanish colonial port, from whence such Spanish vessel shall have last departed; the said amount to be ascertained by the Secretary of the Treasury, who is hereby authorized, from time to time, to give directions to the officers of the Customs of the United States for the collection of such duties, so as to conform the said duties to any variation that may take place in the duties levied on American vessels in such Spanish ports. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever the President shall be satisfied that the discriminating or countervailing duties of tonnage levied by any foreign nation on the ships or vessels of tho United States, slrall have been abolished, he may direct that the tonnage duty on the vessels of such na tion shall cease to be levied in the ports of the United Mates; and cause any duties of tonnage that may have been levied on the vessels of such foreign nation, subject to the abolition of its discriminating duties of tonnage to be refunded. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the second and third sections of this act shall bo in force and take effect from and after the first day of January next. ArrBovED, July 13, 1S32. Public No. 96. AN ACT to increase and improve the Law Department of the Library of Congress Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State of America in Congress assembled, That it shall bo the duty of the Librarian to prepare ' an apartment near to, and connected by, an easy communication with that in which the Library of Congress is now kept, for the purpose of a Law Library; to remove the law books, now in the Library, into such apartments; and to take charge of the Law Library, in the samo manner as he is now required to do of the Library of Congress. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States shall have tree access to the said Law Library; and they arc, hereby, authorized and empowered to make such rules and regulations for the use of the same, by themselves and the attorneys and counsellors, during the sittings of the said court, as they shall deem proper: Provided, Such rules and regulations shall not restrict the President of the United States, the VicePresident, or any member of the Senate or House of Representatives from having access to the said library, or using the books

therein, in the same manneTthat he now has, or may have, to use the books of the Library of Congress. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Law Library shall be a part of the Library of Congress, subject to the same regulations, except such alterations as are herein provided for, as now are, or hereafter shall be established for the Library of Congress; and the incidental expenses of the Law Library shall be paid out of the appropriations for the Library of Congress. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be, and hereby is appropriated, for the present year, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, and a further annual sum of ono thousand dollars, for tho period of five years; to bo expended in tho purchase of lawbooks; and that the Librarian shall make the purchases of the books for tho Law Library, under such directions, and pursuant to such catalogue, as shall be furnished him

by the Chief Justice of tho United States. Approved, July 14, 1832. Public No. 97. AN ACT to provide for completing the removal and erection of the Naval Monument. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in uongress assembled, That for the purpose of paying tho workmen for re newing the inscriptions, and giving uniformi ty ot color to the naval monument, its orna ments and statues recently removed from the Washington Navy Yard to the Capitol Square, a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, be and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in tho Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, July 14, 1832. Public No. 98. AN ACT concerning certain officers of the Marino Corps. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives if the United States of A - T1 , . ' simt rica in congress assembled, That the President of the United States bo, and ho hereby is, authorized to cause to be allowed and paid to such officers of tho marine corps, as have heretofore received the brevet rank of majors in said corps, tho amount of pay and emoluments to which they would have been entitled as commandants of separate stations, if said brevet rank had been recognized by the Navy Department: Provided, That no officer shall receive under this act more than the difference between the pay and emoluments actually received by them, and those to which their said brevet rank would have entitled them as aforesaid. Approved, July 14, 1832. Public No. 99. AN ACT Supplementary to the several acts making appropriation for the Civil and Military Service during the year ono thousand eight hundred and thirtv-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of A-muncu in congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to tlie following objects specifically, namely : For the pay and mileage of members of both Houses of Congress and delegates, and of the Joint Committee directed to prepare a code of laws for the District of Columbia. ono hundred thousand dollars. For alterations in the Hall of tho House of Representatives, and other expenditures on the Capitol, nine hundred and sixty dollars. Fof changing the course of Tiber Creek, three thousand two hundred and two dollars. For planting trees and improving tho walk on Pennsylvania Avenue, one "thousand eight hundred and forty-eight dollars. For completing the building now erecting tn the city of Philadelphia for the Mint establishment of tho United States, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. For the employment of temporary clerks to enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to bring up the business of his office, five tliousand dollars. For defraying tho expense of removing from the burying ground of Rock Creek Church to the Congressional cemetry tlie remains of James Jackson, and Jamos Jones formerly members of Congress from the State of Georgia, such sum as shall be requisite, not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. For defraying the increased expenses of me vtuaricr masters department, incurred in the Indian war, one hundred thousand dollars. For completing Barracks, Quarters, Hospital and Store Houses, at Key West fifteen thousand dollars. For tlie expenses incurred by the Secretary of the Treasury in collecting information of the extent and condition of the Manufactures cf the United States, in compliance with certain resolutions of tlie House of Representatives, eighteen thousand dollars. To enable the President of. the United States' to contract with a skillful artist to exA 1 ecuier m marble, a pedestrian statue of Ueorge Washington, to be placed in the centre of the Rotundo of the Capitol, the sum of five thousand dollars. For the construction, under the superintendence of the Commissioner of the Public

Buildings, of a substantial brick or stone vault in tho Washington Parish burial ground, for tho temporary interment of members of Congress, one thousand dollars. For arrearages arising from a deficiency of appropriation for printing the laws of the Territory of Florida and for tlie payment of C. C. Greenup remaining unpaid as estimated by the Treasury Department, ono thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars

auu thirteen cents. For deficiency of appropriation for the salary of the Governor of Florida, livo hundred dollars. In addition to the contingent fund of the House of Representatives, five thousand dollars. For tho salary of the. Surveyor of Public Lands in tho Territory of Arkansas, and compensation to draughtsman and clerks in his office, during the remainder of the current year, ono thousand six hundred dollars For tho pay, subsistence, and forago of surgeons, assistant surgeons, and ethers, provided for by the net of Juno eighteenth one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-three dollars. For the pay, subsistence, and other ex penses of tho mounted rangers, according to the act of Juno fifteenth, one thousand ehdit hundred and thirty-two, in addition to the sum of fifty thousand dollars heretofore appropriated, eighty-three thousand six hun dred and torty seven dollars. I 'or tho expenses of the militia and volunteers called into the service of the United States, in addition to the appropriation of three hundred thousand dollars heretofore made for that object, one hundred thousand dollars. For the transportation of tho nrmv, ordnance, subsistence, and other objects connected with tho Quartermaster Department, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For tho subsistence of militia called into service to suppress Indian hostilities, fiftysix thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For the payment of pensions to widows and orphants granted during the present session, three thousand dollars. In order to carry into effect the act supplementary to tho act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of tho revolution, the following sums, to bo expended under the direction of tlie Secreta ry ot war. For the compensation Of temporary clerks three thousand dollars. For rent, printing of forms and regulations, six hundred and fifty dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized to apply a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, out of the amount appropriated for tho purchase of provisions for the relief of tho Seminole Indians, by tho act making appropriations for the Indian Department for tho year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two,-to defray tho expenses of a delegation of tho said Indians, to explore the country west of the Mississippi, for the purpose of deciding upon a removal thither; and so much of tho appropriation for tho payment of laborers in tho Ordnance Department, as will not bo required in consequence of the new organization of tho Ordnanco Department, shall bo transferred to the pay department, to enable the latter to meet tho additional expenditures to which that organization subjects it. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That u snau oe me duty ot tho district paymasters of the army of the United States, m addition to tho payments required to be made by them to tlie regular troop?, to mako payment to all other troops in tho service of tlie United States, whenever required thcrctb by order of the President. Approved, July 14. 1832. Public No. 100. AN ACT providing for tho purchase by the United States of tho rights of the Washington Bridge Company, in the Dis trict of Columbia, and for tho erection of a public bridge On the sito thereof. Whereas it is represented to this present Congress that tho Washington Bridge Company arc willing and desirous to sell, convey and transfer to the United States, the bridge by them owned, in its present condition, with all their rights, property, and privileges, as a company under the existing lav3, including their lands, piers, abutments, roads, and ways, as well as all materials ny them owned at the site of the said bridge, whether worked up in the construction or re-construction of the same or not, for the sum of twenty thousand dollars. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stntes of America tn Congress assembled, That provided tho said Washington Bridge Company shall, at a lawful meeting of the stockholders thereof, agree to convey, and shall actually convey to the United "States, the said bridge as it now is,-with all the estate, right, title, and interest,-cither in law or equity, by them owned, as a company under existing laws, in said bridge, with ta piers, abutments, roads and ways,-together with' all the materials by them now owned as a company, at the said bridge and waysy cither worked up or not, in the construction or re-construction of the said bridge, and all other their rights, privileges, and immunities :i3 such company, within two calendar 'months from tlie passing of this act; which

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conveyance tho said company is hereby authorized and empowered to make, by deed; under their corporate peal; to bo deositod with the Secretary of the Treasury of tho L nited States; then the said Si cretarr skill be, and ho hereby is,' authorised and required to paT to the said company tho fum of twenty thousand dollars, out of any moneys in tho Treasury not otherwise appropriated. oKd X. And be it further enacted. That; upon the execution of such conveyance by tho said company, tho President of tho United States be, and ho is hereby authorized . to cause to bo erected upon the site of tho present bridge a good and sufficient bridge across tho river Potomac, of such material j and upon such plan ot construction a ha shall approve and direct: Provided, That uio said linage ic so constructed as to havo a draw therein fluitablo for tho safe passage of vessels of the largest dimensions, capabla of navigating tl:o Potomac river a'oove tho said bridge, not lc?s than sixty-six feet at tho least and, al.3o, on erxfi side of the said draw, and at a suitable distance uVreficm, an arch of sutlicirnt elevation to admit tho passage under tho same of an ordinary steamboat; which said draw and arch shall bo at tho Virginia ch innrl in the said river: And. provided, further. That there shall bo a similar draw at the Maryland channel, of not less than thirty-fivo feet, with a riinilar arch: And. provided, ?, Thai in tho se lection ol material and in tho construction of tho said bridg!,' draws or.d arches, all practicable attention thill be had to tho preservation of the navigation of tho said river. Sir. 3. And be it furrier enacted. That towanlj tho construction of tho said hridgn and works hereby authorized , and directed,' tht! sum or sixty thousand dollars bo and tho, samcia hereby, appropriated, payable out of any money in tho Treasury not otherwise &ih propriatcd. Src. d. And be it further enacted, That the said company shall apply and distribute the said sum of twenty thousand dollars in tho following manner, that is to say; hr?t to roimbrirso tho expenses incurred by the said company since the last adjournment of Congress, to tho stockholders, advarcmg tho same, and the balance among the stockholder!?, jto rata, on tho cost of each Fhare, to the present holder thereof, to be ascertained by tho company if neccss:irV by tho oath or aimmanon vi the present holder. Sec. 5. And ha it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall have no elloc,' unh'53 three valuers, to bo annointed bv tlu? President of tho U. S. having no interest in tho said bridge, or in any property in tht District of Columbia,' and hot beinf inhab itants of tho said District: or a majority of tlicrn, shall, on oath, decide that the properiy oi uio said oriugo company, so to be conveyed to the United States,' exclusivo of any supposed valuo of th privileges by them held under their charter as a company, is of the value of twenty thousand dollars; 'or unless in case the said valuers, or a majority of them shall value the ?aid property nt a sum loss than twenty thousand dollars, tho said bridgo company will agree to accept iho' amount of such valuation. This act shall be in force from the passins thereof. A ppsoved, J u!y 1 i , 1832. (Prr.uc No. 101. AN ACT for the discharge of sundry judgments against tho former .Marshal of tho Kastern District of 1 Vnn-ylvanja. and for the relief of I. & W. Lippvncott and Company. Be it enacted by the Senate ard House of Representatives of the Vnited Siate of America in Congress assembled. That tlie Scirctary of tho Treasury be, and ho is here-', by, authorized and. required to pay, out of any money irr tho Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the amounts now severally dim, upon certain judgments rendered in favor of several Insurance Companies of the city of New York against the late Marshal of tho eastern district of Pennsylvania,- that is to say: upon a judgment rendered by the circuit court of tins eastern ditirict cf Pennsylvania on tlie twenty first of May, eighteen hundred and thirtf, in favor of tho Ocean Insurance Company, against John Tonard, for thirty-one thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars ard fourteen cents; nlo, upon a judgment rendered in the same court on tho twenty second of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favor of tho Pacific Insurance Company, against the said John Conard, for forty-two thousand five hundred and ninety-one dollars and fifty-eight cents: also upon a judgment rendered in tire samo court the twenty-second of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, in fivor of tho NYptuno Insurance Company against the said Jt I;u Conard, for eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and twenty-live cent?' also," upon a judgment rendered in the samo court,- on the twenty-second of May," eighteen hundred and thirty, in favor cf iho National Insurance Companies against r?ie said John Conard, for siteru thoMfind eight hundred and forty nine dollar and eighiysix cents; also, upon a jndpnuiit ivndcn d in the same court on the twenty-second of .May,- eighteen lwr.drcd and thirty, in fnor of tho Anif ritan Insur.:i)co Compvi.y, f r twenty thousand two hundred and ninetythree dollars and one cent; also, upon a judgment in the smo cmirt rendered the twenty-fourth of May, eighteen hnadrcd and thirty, in favor of the Niagara Insurance Company,for sixteen thousand two hundred ai:d one dollars and cighlv-f;vc cent;

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