Laws of the United States. seventy-seven dollars and fifty.five cents; together with the interest and all the legal costs which have accrued on the said judgments against the said Conard, either in the said circuit court or upon the affirmance of any of the said judgments in the Supreme Court of the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to ad just and settle the claims of J. and W. Lippincott and Company, of Philadelphia, for damages sustained by them in consequence of the illegal seizure of teas made in the said city of Philadelphia, by the Collector of that Port, acting under the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not other wise appropriated Provided, That no allowance shall be made for any damages sustained by them other than the interest upon the amount of the property detained from them, and the difference in the value of said property at the time of the illegal seizure, and the time of its delivery to them on the substitution of other security. Approved: July 14, 1832. AN ACT to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on Imports. [22d CONG. 1st SESS. upon which, shall be five per centum ad valorem; on flannels, bockings, and baizes, sixteen cents the square yard; on coach laces, thirty-five per centum ; and upon merino shawls made of wool, all other manufactures of wool, or of which wool is a component part, and on ready made clothing, fifty per centum ad valorem. Third. On all manufactures of cotton, or of which cot. ton shall be a component part, twenty-five per centum ad valorem, excepting cotton twist, yarn, and thread, which shall remain at the rate of duty fixed by the act to amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, of twentysecond May, one thousand eight hundred and twentyfour: And provided, That all manufactures of cotton, or of which cotton shall be a component part, not dyed, colored, printed, or stained, not exceeding in value thirty cents the square yard, shall be valued at thirty cents the square yard; and if dyed,colored, printed, or stained,in whole or in part, not exceeding in value thirty-five cents the square yard, shall be valued at thirty five cents per square yard; and on nankeens, imported direct from China, twenty per centum ad valorem. Fourth. On all stamped, printed, or painted floor all kinds, other than that usually denominated patent floor cloths, forty-three cents a square yard; on oil cloths of cloth, twelve and a half cents the square yard; and on floor matting, usually made of flags or other materials, Fifth. On iron, in bars or bolts, not manufactured in whole or in part by rolling, ninety cents per one hundred and twelve pounds. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five per centum ad valorem. three, so much of the act, entitled "An act in alteration of the several acts imposing duties on imports," approv. ed the nineteenth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, as is herein otherwise provided for, shall be repealed, except so far as the same may be necessary for the recovery and collection of all duties which shall have accrued under the said act; and for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission of all fines, penalties, and forfeitures, which may have been incurred under the same. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, in lieu of the duties now imposed by law, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, the following duties, that is to say: First Wool, unmanufactured, the value whereof, at the place of exportation, shall not exceed eight cents per pound, shall be imported free of duty; and if any wool so imported shall be fine wool mixed with dirt or other material, and thus reduced in value to eight cents per pound, or under, the appraisers shall appraise said wool at such price as in their opinion it would have cost had it not been so mixed, and a duty thereon shall be charged in conformity with such appraisal; on wool, unmanufac tured, the value whereof at the place of exportation, shall exceed eight cents, shall be levied four cents per pound, and forty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That wool imported on the skin shall be estimated, as to weight and value, as other wool. ; Second. On all milled and fulled cloth, known by the name of plains, kerseys, or kendal cottons, of which wool shall be the only material, and the value whereof shall not exceed thirty-five cents a square yard, five per centum ad valorem; on worsted stuff goods, shawls, and other manufactures of silk and worsted, ten per centum ad valorem; on worsted yarn, twenty per centum ad valorem on woollen yarn, four cents per pound, and fifty per centum ad valorem ; on mits, gloves, bindings, blankets, hosiery, and carpets and carpetings, twenty-five per centum, except Brussels, Wilton, and treble ingrained car petting, which shall be at sixty-three cents the square yard, all other ingrained and venetian carpeting, thirtyfive cents the square yard; and except blankets, the value whereof, at the place from whence exported, shall not exceed seventy-five cents each, the duty to be levied VOL. VIII.-F. Sixth. On bar and bolt iron, made wholly or in part by rolling, thirty dollars per ton: Provided, That all iron in slabs, blooms, or other form less finished than iron in bars or bolts, and more advanced than pig iron, except castings, shall be rated as iron in bars or bolts, and pay duty accordingly. Seventh. On iron in pigs, fifty cents per one hundred and twelve pounds on vessels of cast iron, not otherwise specified, one and a half cents per pound; on all other castings of iron, not otherwise specified, one cent per pound. Eighth. On iron or steel wire, not exceeding number fourteen, five cents per pound; exceeding number fourteen, nine cents per pound; on silvered or plated wire, five per centum ad valorem ; on cap or bonnet wire covered with silk, cotton, flaxen, yarn, or thread, manuactured abroad, twelve cents per pound. Ninth. On round iron or brazier's rods, of three sixteenths to eight-sixteenths of an inch diameter, inclusive, and on iron, in nail or spike rods, or nail plates,slit, rolled, or hammered, and on iron in sheets, and hoop iron, and on iron, slit, rolled, or hammered for band iron, scroll iron, or casement rods, three cents per pound; on iron spikes, four cents per pound; on iron nails, cut or wrought, five cents per pound; on tacks, brads, and sprigs, not exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, five cents per thousand, exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, five cents per pound; on square wire used for the manufacture of stretchers for umbrellas, and cut in pieces not exceeding the length used therefor, twelve per centum ad valorem; on anvils and anchors, and all parts thereof, manufactured in whole or in part, two cents per pound; on iron cables or chains, or parts thereof, manufactured in whole or in part, three cents per pound, and no drawback shall be allowed on the exportation of iron cables or parts thereof; on mill cranks and mill irons of wrought iron, four cents per pound; on mill saws, one dollar each, on blacksmith's hammers' and sledges, two and a half cents per pound; on muskets, one dollar and fifty cents per stand; on rifles, two dollars and fifty cents each; on all other fire arms, thirty per centum ad valorem. Tenth. On axes, adzes, hatchets, drawing knives, cutting knives, sickles, or reaping hooks, scythes, spades, shovels, squares of iron or steel, plated, brass, and polished steel saddlery, coach and harness furniture, of all descriptions, steel yards and scale beams, socket chisels, vices and screws of iron, called wood screws, thirty per centum ad valorem; on common tinned and japanned saddlery of all descriptions, ten per centum ad valorem: Provided, That said articles shall not be imported at a less rate of duty than would have been chargeable on the material constituting their chief value, if imported in an unmanufactured state. Eleventh. On steel, one dollar and fifty cents per one hundred and twelve pounds. Twelfth. On japanned wares of all kinds, on plated wares of all kinds, and on all manufactures, not otherwise specified, made of brass, iron, steel, pewter, or tin, or of which either of those metals is a component material, a duty of twenty-five per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all articles manufactured in whole of sheet, rod, hoop, bolt, or bar-iron, or of iron wire, or of which sheet, rod, hoop, bolt, or bar iron, or iron wire, shall constitute the greatest weight, and which are not otherwise specified, shall pay the same duty per pound that is charged by this act on sheet, rod, hoop, bolt, or bar iron, or on iron wire, of the same number respectively; provided; also, that the said last mentioned rates shall not be less than the said duty of twenty-five per centum ad va lorem. Thirteenth. That all scrap and old iron shall pay a duty of twelve dollars and fifty cents per ton; that nothing shall be deemed old iron that has not been in actual use, and fit only to be manufactured; and all pieces of iron, except old, of more than six inches in length, or of sufficient length, to be made into spikes and bolts, shall be rated as bar, bolt, rod, or hoop iron, as the case may be, and pay duty accordingly and all manufactures of iron, partly finished, shall pay the same rates of duty as if entirely finished; all vessels of cast iron, and all castings of iron, with handles, rings, hoops, or other addition of wrought iron, shall pay the same rates of duty as if made entirely of cast iron. Fifteenth. On all manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be a component part, coming from beyond the Cape of Good Hope, ten per centum ad valorem, and on all other manufactures of silk, or of which silk is a component part, five per centum ad valorem, except sewing silk, which shall be forty per centum ad valorem. Sixteenth. On brown sugar and syrup of sugar cane, in casks, two and a half cents per pound; and on white clayed sugar, three and one third cents per pound. Seventeenth. On salt, ten cents per fifty six pounds. Eighteenth. On old scrap lead, two cents per pound. Nineteenth. On teas of all kinds, imported from places this side of the Cape of Good Hope, or in vessels other than those of the United States, ten cents per pound. Twelfth. On slates of all kinds, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Twenty-first. On window glass not above eight by ten inches in size, three dollars per hundred square feet; not above ten by twelve inches, three dollars and fifty cents per hundred square feet; and if above ten by twelve inches, four dollars per hundred square feet: Provided, That all window glass imported in plates, uncut, shall be charg. ed with the highest rates of duty hereby imposed. On all apothecaries' vials and bottles, exceeding the capacity of six and not exceeding the capacity of sixteen ounces each,two dollars and twenty-five cents the groce; all perfumery and fancy vials and bottles, not exceeding the ca pacity of four ounces each, two dollars and fifty cents the groce; and those exceeding four ounces, and not exceeding sixteen ounces each, three dollars and twenty-five cents the groce; on all wares of cut glass not specified, three cents per pound, and thirty per centum ad valorem; on black glass bottles not exceeding one quart, two dol lars per groce; on black glass bottles exceeding one quart,two dollars and fifty cents per groce; on demijohns, twenty-five cents each, and on all other articles of glass, not specified, two cents per pound, and twenty per cen tum; on paper hangings, forty per centum; on all Leghorn hats or bonnets, and all hats or bonnets of straw, chip, or grass, and all flats, braids, or plaits, for making hats or bonnets, thirty per centum; on the following articles twelve and a half per centum ad valorem, namely: whalebone, the product of foreign fishing, raw silk, and dressed furs; and on the following articles,twenty-five per centum ad valorem, namely: boards, planks, walking canes, and sticks, frames or sticks for umbrellas and parasols, and all manufactures of wood, not otherwise specified: copper vessels; and all manufactures of copper,not otherwise specified; all manufactures of hemp or flax, except yarn and cordage, tarred and untarred, ticklenburgs, osnaburglis, and burlaps, not otherwise specified; fans, artificial flow. ers, ornamental feathers, ornaments for head dresses, caps for women, and millinery of all kinds; comfits and sweetmeats of all kinds, preserved in sugar or brandy; umbrellas and parasols, of whatever materials made; parchment and vellum, wafers, and black lead pencils, and brushes of all kinds. And on the following articles, thirty per centum ad valorem, viz: cabinet wares; hats and caps of fur, leather, or wool, leather whips, bridles, saddles, and on all manufactures of leather not otherwise specified; carriages and parts of carriages, and blank books; on boots and bootees, one dollar and fifty cents per pair; shoes of leather, other shoes and slippers of prunella, stuff, or nankin; also porcelain, china, stone, and earthen ware; musical instruments; and manufactures of marble, shall pay the present rates of duties. Twenty-second. On Olive oil, in casks, twenty cents a gallon. Twenty-third. On the wines of France, namely, red wines, in casks, six cents a gallon; white wines, in casks, ten cents a gallon, and French wines of all sorts in bottles, twenty two cents a gallon; until the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-four; and from and after that day one half of those rates respect ively; and on all wines other than those of France, onehalf of their present rates of duty, respectively, from and after the day last aforesaid: Provided, That no high. er duty shall he charged under this act, or any existing law on the red wines of Austria than are now, or may be by this act, levied upon red wines of Spain, when the said wines are imported in casks. Twenty-fourth. On the following articles an ad valorem duty of fifteen per centum, namely, barley, grass, or straw baskets; composition, wax, or amber beads; and all other beads not otherwise enumerated, lamp black; ind go,bleached and unbleached linens, shell or paper boxes, hair bracelets, hair not made up for head dresses, bricks, paving tiles, brooms of hair or palm leaf, cashmere of Thibet, down of all kinds, feathers for beds. Twenty-fifth. All articles not herein specified, either as free or as liable to a different duty, and which, by the existing laws, pay an ad valorem duty higher than fifteen per centum to pay an ad valorem duty of fifteen per centum from and after the said third day of March,one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the articles exempted from duty by the existing laws, the following articles, imported from and after the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, shall be exempted from duty: that is to say, teas of all Laws of the United States. kinds imported from China, or other places east of the Cape of Good Hope, and in vessels of the United States, coffee, cocoa, almonds, currants, prunes, figs, raisins in jars and boxes, all other raisins, black pepper, ginger, mace, nutmegs, cinnamon, cassia, cloves, pimento, camphor, crude saltpetre, flax unmanufactured, quicksilver, opium, quills unprepared, tin in plates and sheets, un manufactured marble, argol, gum arabic, gum senegal, epaulettes of gold and silver, Lac dye, madder, madder root, nuts and berries used in dying, saffron, turmeric, wood or pastel; aloes, ambergris, Burgundy pitch, bark (Peruvian), cochineal, capers, chamomile flowers, coriander seed, cantharides, castanas, catsup, chalk, coculus indicus, coral, dates, filberts, filtering stones, frank incense, grapes, gamboge, hemlock, henbane, horn plates for lanterns, ox horns, other horns and tips, India rub. ber, ipecacuanha, ivory unmanufactured, juniper berries, musks, nuts of all kinds, olives, oil of juniper, paintings and drawings, rattans unmanufactured, reeds unmanufac tured, rhubarb, rotten stone, tamarinds, tortoise shell, tin foil, shellac, sponges, sago, lemons, limes, pine apples, Cocoa nuts and shells, iris or orris root, arrow root, bole ammoniac, colombo root, annotto, anise seed, oil of anise seed, oil of cloves, cummin seed, sarsaparilla, balsam tolu, asafoetida, ava root, alcornoque, canella alba, cascarilla, Haerlem oil, hartshorn, manna, senna, tapioca, vanilla beans, oil of almonds, nux vomica, amber, platina, busts of marble, metal or plaster casts of bronze or plaster, strings of musical instruments, flints, kelp, Kermes, pins, needles, mother-of-pearl, hair unmanufactured, hair pencils, Brazil paste, tartar crude, vegetables, such as are used principally for dying and in composing dyes, weld, and all articles used principally for dying, coming under the duty of twelve and a half per centum, except the bichromate of potash; prussiate of potash, cromate of potash, and nitrate of lead; aquafortis and Tartaric acids; all other <ying drugs, and materials for composing dyes, all other medicinal drugs, and all articles not enumerated in this act nor the existing laws, and which are now liable to an ad valorem duty of fifteen per centum, except tartar eme. tic and Rochelle salts, sulphate of quinine, calomel and corrosive sublimate, sulphate of magnesia, glauber salts: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to reduce the duties upon alum, copperas, manganese, muriatic or sulphuric acids, refined saltpetre, blue vitriol, carbonate of soda, red lead, white lead or litharge, sugar of lead, or combs. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the third day of March aforesaid, so much of any act of Congress as requires the addition of ten or twenty per cen'um to the cost or value of any goods, wares, or merchandise, in estimating the duty thereon, or as imposes any duty on such addition, shall be repealed. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the third day of March aforesaid, where the amount of duty on merchandise, except wool, manufactures of wool, or of which wool is a component part, imported into the United States, in any ship or vessel, on account of one person only, or of several persons jointly interested, shall not exceed two hundred dollars, the same shall be paid in cash, without discount; and if it shall exceed that sum, shall, at the option of the importer or importers, be paid or secured to be paid, in the manner now required by law, one half in three and one half in six calendar months; and that, from and after the said third day of March, so much of the sixty-second section of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” approved the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, as authorized the deposite of teas under the bond of the importer or importers, shall be repealed. And that so much of any existing law as requires teas, when imported in vessels of the United States, from places beyond [22d CONG. 1st SESS. the Cape of Good Hope, to be weighed, marked, and certified, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed. the third day of March aforesaid, the duties on all wool, Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That, from and after manufactures of wool, or of which wool is a component part, shall be paid in cash, without discount, or, at the option of the importer, be placed in the public stores, under bond, at his risk, subject to the payment of the customary storage and charges; and to the payment of interest at the rate of six per centum per annum while so stored: Provided, That the duty on the articles so stored shall be paid one-half in three, and one-half in six months from the date of importation: Provided, also, That if any instalment of duties be not paid when the same shall have become due, so much of the said merchandise as may be necessary to discharge such instal. ment shall be sold at public auction, and retaining the sum necessary for the payment of such instalment of and sale of such goods, the overplus, if any, shall be rethe duties, together with the expenses of safe keeping turned by the collector to the importer or owner, or to his agent or lawful representative: And provided also, That the importer, owner, or consignee of such goods, may, at any time after the deposite shall have been made, duties on what may be withdrawn, and the customary withdraw the whole or any part thereof, on paying the storage and charges, and of interest. as such where the duty which now is, or hereafter may be, imSec. 7. And be it further enacted, That in all cases posed on any goods, wares, or merchandise, imported into the United States, shall, by law, be regulated by, or be directed to be estimated or levied upon, the value of the square yard, or of any other quantity or parcel thereof; and in all cases where there is or shall be imposed any ad valorem rate of duty on any goods, wares, or merchandise, imported into the United States, it shall be the duty of the collector, within whose district the same shall be imported or entered, to cause the actual value thereof, at the time purchased, and place from which the same shall have been imported into the United the number of such yards, parcels, or quantities, and such States, to be appraised, estimated, and ascertained, and and it shall, in every such case, be the duty of the ap. actual value of every of them, as the case may require; praisers of the United States, and every of them, and of every other person who shall act his or their power, to ascertain, estimate, and appraise appraiser, by all the reasonable ways or means in the true and actual value, any invoice or affidavit thereto to the contrary notwithstanding, of the said goods, wares, and merchandise, at the time purchas ed, and place from whence the same shall have been imyards, parcels, or quantities, and such actual value of ported into the United States, and the number of such every of them, as the case may require; and all such goods, wares, and merchandises, being manufactures of wool, or whereof wool shall be a component part, which condition, shall, in every such appraisal, be taken, deemshall be imported into the United States in an unfinished ed, and estimated by the said appraisers, and every of them, and every person who shall act as such appraiser, whence the same were imported into the United States, to have been, at the time purchased, and place from of as great actual value as if the same had been entirely finished: Provided, That, in all cases where any goods, wares, or merchandise, subject to ad valorem duty, or directed to be estimated or levied upon, the value of the whereon the duty is or shall be by law regulated by, or have been imported into the United States from a counsquare yard, or any other quantity or parcel thereof shall or produced, the appraisers shall value the same at the try other than that in which the same were manufactured current value thereof at the time of purchase, before such last exportation to the United States, in the country where the same may have been originally manufactured or produced. which is contrary to this act, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That, whenever similar kind, but different quality, are found in the same packages charged at an average price, it shall be the duty of the appraisers to adopt the value of the best article contained in such package, and so charged, as the average value of the whole; and that so much of the act, entitled "An act for the more effectual collection of the impost duties," approved the twenty-eighth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, as requires the ap praisers to adopt the value of the best article contained in a package as the average value of the whole, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be law-goods composed wholly, or in part, of wool or cotton, of ful for the appraisers to call before them, and examine upon oath, any owner, importer, consignee, or other person, touching any matter or thing which they may deem material in ascertaining the true value of any merchandise imported, and to require the production, on oath, to the collector, or to any permament appraiser, of any letters, accounts, or invoices, in his possession, relating to the same; for which purpose they are hereby authorized to administer oaths. And if any person so called shall fail to attend, or shall decline to answer, or to produce such papers when so required, he shall forfeit and pay to the United States fifty dollars; and if such person Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That whenever, up be the owner, importer, or consignee, the appraisement on the opening and examination of any package or packwhich the said appraisers may make of the goods, wares, ages of imported goods, composed wholly, or in part, of or merchandise, shall be final and conclusive, any act of wool or cotton, in the manner provided by the fourth Congress to the contrary notwithstanding And any persection of the act for the more effectual collection of the son who shall swear falsely on such examination shall be impost duties, approved on the twenty-eighth day of deemed guilty of perjury; and if he be the owner, im. May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, the said porter, or consignee, the merchandise shall be forfeited. goods shall be found not to correspond with the entry Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the thereof at the custom-house; and if any package shall be duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, under the direction found to contain any article not entered, such article of the President of the United States, from time to time, shall be forfeited; or, if the package be made up with to establish such rules and regulations, not inconsistent intent to evade or defraud the revenue, the package with the laws of the United States, as the President of shall be forfeited; and so much of the said section as the United States shall think proper, to secure a just, prescribes a forfeiture of goods found not to correspond faithful, and impartial appraisal of all goods, wares, and with the invoice thereof, be, and the same is hereby, re. merchandise, as aforesaid, imported into the United pealed. States, and just and proper entries of such actual value thereof, and of the square yards, parcels, or other quantities thereof, as the case may require, and of such actual value of every of them; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to report all such rules and regulations, with the reasons therefor, to the then next ses sion of Congress. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That an addition of ten per centum shall be made to the several rates of duties by this act imposed, in respect to all goods, wares, and merchandise, on the importation of which, in American or foreign vessels, a specific discrimination has not already | been made, which, from and after the third day of March aforesaid, shall be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States: Provided, That this additional duty shall not apply to goods, wares, and merchandise, which shall be imported after said day in ships or vessels not of the United States, entitled by treaty, or by an act or acts of Congress, to be entered in the ports of the United States, on the payment of the same duties as shall then be paid on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in ships or vessels of the United States. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed a drawback of the duties by this act imposed, on goods, wares, and merchandise, which shall be imported from and after the said third day of March, upon the exportation thereof, within the time and in the man. ner prescribed in the existing laws at the time: Provided, No drawback shall be allowed on a less quantity of cordage than five tons. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the existing laws at the time shall extend to, and be in force for, the collection of the duties imposed by this act, on goods, wares, and merchandise, which shall be imported into the United States from and after the said third day of March; and for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission of all fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and for the allowance of drawbacks by this act authorized, as fully and effectually as if every regulation, restriction, penalty, forfeiture, provision, clause, matter, and thing, in the then existing laws contained, had been inserted in, and re-enacted by, this act; and that so much of any act Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the said third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, the ad valorem rates of duty on goods, wares, and merchandise, shall be estimated in the manner following: to the actual cost, if the same shall have been actually purchased, or the actual value, if the same shall have been procured otherwise than by purchase, at the time and place when and where purchased, or otherwise procured, or to the appraised value, if appraised, shall be added all charges, except insurance. Sec. 16. And be it further enacled, That, from and after the sai! third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, in calculating the rates of duties, the pound sterling shall be considered and taken as of the value of four dollars and eighty cents. Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That syrup import. ed in casks, and all syrup for making sugar, shall be rated by weight, and pay the same duty as the sugar of which it is composed would pay it its natural state; and that loaf or lump sugar, when imported in a pulverized, liquid, or other form, shall pay the same duty as impos. ed by law on loaf or lump sugar; and all fossil and crude mineral salt shall pay fifteen per centum ad valorem. Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That the several articles enumerated in this bill, whether imported before or after the passage thereof, may be put into the customhouse stores, under the bond of the importer or owner, and such of said articles as shall remain under the control of the proper officer of the customs on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, shall be subject to no other duty than if the same were im imported, respectively, after that day. And if the du ties or any part thereof, on the articles deposited as afore said, shall have been paid previous to the said third day of March, the amount so paid shall be refunded to the person importing and depositing the said articles: Provided, That this section shall apply to merchandise in original packages, which may have been entered and tak en into the possession of the importer or owner, upon condition that the said merchandise be placed under the custody of the proper officer of the customs, and that the same shall remain under his control on the third day Laws of the United States. AN ACT to provide for the extinguishment of the Indian title to lands lying in the States of Missouri and Illinois, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of forty-six thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be applied, under the direction of the President, to the extinguishment of the title of the Kickapoos,Shawanees, and Delawares, of Cape Girardeau, to lands lying in the State of Missouri; and of the Piankeshaws, Weas, Peorias, and Kaskaskias, to lands lying in the State of Illinois; and for the purpose of defraying all the expenses of treating with, removing, and subsisting said Indians, for one year; for an additional compensation to the Shawanee Indians for their reservation on the Wapaughkonetta in Ohio, an annuity of two thousand dollars per annum, for fifteen years; and, also, the sum of three thousand dollars to de. fray the expenses of procuring he assent of the Menominee Indians to the treaty between them and the United States, which was provisionally ratified during the present session of Congress. See. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the legal representatives of John Pettigru and James Pettigru, the sum of nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, with interest, at the rate of six per centum, from the month of June, in the year seven hundred and ninetyfour, until the time of payment. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the legatees of Alexander McKnight, the sum of two thousand one hundred and twenty dollars, with interest, at the rate of six per centum, from the month of June, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-four, until the time of payment. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That said sums be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved: July 14, 1832. AN ACT for the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, and the purchase of a site, in the vicinity of New Orleans. [22d CONG. 1st SESS. of the Treasury may, according to his discretion, execute to the debtor of the United States a release, as mentioned therein, without any payment by said debtor, if the Secretary of the Treasury is satisfied that said debter is unable to pay any part of said debt. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing contained in this act, or in the act of which this is an amendment,shall be construed to entitle any Government debt. or to be discharged, until it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that the sureties of such debtor are unable to pay the said debt, and that they are entitled to the provisions of this act, in like manner as the said principal debtor shall be entitled to the same, or, unless said sureties shall file their consent, in writing, with the Secretary of the Treasury, that the privileges of this act, and the act to which this is an amendment, may be extended to their principal without any prejudice to their liability, or unless such discharge can and shall be given in such manner as not to affect the legal liability of such sureties. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, out of any unappropriated moneys in the Treasury, to carry into effect this act, and that of which it is an amendment. Approved: July 14, 1832. AN ACT to provide for the appointment of three Com missioners to treat with the Indians, and for other pur poses. Be it enacted, &c. That the President shall nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint, three commissioners, who shall visit and examine the country set apart for the emigrating Indians, west of the Mississippi river; and shall, when it is necessary, enter into negotiations with them for the adjustment of any difficulties which may exist in the location of the lands of the emigrating Indians in the boundaries thereof. Such commissioners shall also ascertain and report the proper places of location for such of the tribes and portions of tribes, as may yet wish to remove to that country, and shall transmit to the War Department all the information they can procure respecting its climate, soil, and capacity to support the number of Indians who will probably remove to, and reside in it. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said comof the tribes as may be in a state of hostility, or as may be missioners shall be authorized to convene together such Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of one hundred and depredations or aggressions against others, and to endeaapparently disposed to commit, or may have committed, twelve thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treavor to arrange the difficulties between them, so that the sury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the erection of barracks, quar-sixth section of the act of May twenty-eight, one thousand protection promised to the emigrating Indians by the ters, and storehouses, and the purchase of a site, in the eight hundred and thirty, may be secured to them. vicinity of New Orleans, for a garrison of four companies of the United States' troops. Approved: July 14, 1832. AN ACT in addition to an act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States." Be it neacted, That all and each of the provisions of the act to which this is an addition shall be extended to every person who was a debtor to the United States on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. one, in any sum of money which he is unable to pay, unless such person be indebted as the principal in an official bond, or for public money received by him, and not paid over or accounted for according to law; or for any fine, forfeiture, or penalty, incurred by the violation of any law of the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in all such cases of indebtedness as are described in the fourth section of the act to which this is an addition, the Secretary Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall also report to the War Department a plan for the improvement, government, and security of the Indians. Sec. 4. And be it further enacied, That the said commissioners shall inquire into the mode in which the business of emigration has been conducted, and report any changes which would render the same more economical, or better adapted to the comfort and condition of the Indians. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, in the discharge of their duties, the said Commissioners shall be regulated by such instructions as they may receive from the War Department. Sec. 6 And be it further enacted, That twenty thousand dollars, for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into effect, be, and the same is appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. |