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sell so much of the stock of the United States in said bank, at the bank stock of par value thereof, as said navy pension funds will pay for; and to receive said navy pension funds, in payment thereof; the said bank stock to be held in the name of the treasurer of the United

U. S. bank.

Secretary of the treasury authorised to

sell stock at

par value, and

receive navy

pension

ment.

Books to be opened and

accounts

condition of

States for the purposes aforesaid.

§ 3. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the navy be, and he is hereby, authorised and required to cause books to be opened, and regular accounts to be kept, showing the condition of the navy and privateer pension funds, the receipts and funds, in pay- expenditures thereof, the names of the pensioners, and the dates and amount of their respective pensions, with a statement of the act or acts of Congress under which the same may be granted; and that he shall annually report to Congress an abstract, showkept, showing ing the condition of these funds in all these particulars, and the certain funds, receipts and expenditures during the year; and cause a similar account of the receipts and expenditures of the navy hospital fund, Abstract to be to be kept and reported to Congress, annually, in like manner, and at the same time, with the reports upon the pension funds. §4. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the navy shall be, and he is hereby, authorised to appoint a clerk who shall perform all the duties which shall be required of him in relation to said funds; and shall receive as a full compensation for his services, and in lieu of all commissions or other allowances, a Salary $1,600 salary of one thousand six hundred dollars, to be paid quarteryearly, out of the treasury of the United States.

&c.

reported to Congress annually.

Clerk to be appointed.

missioners

Powers and § 5. And be it further enacted, That all the powers conferred, duties of com- and duties imposed by laws now in force, on the commissioners relative to cer- of the navy and privateer pension and navy hospital funds be, and tain funds they are hereby, transferred to the secretary of the navy; and all transferred to acts, and parts of acts, contrary to the provisions of this act, be, secretary of and they are hereby, repealed. [Approved, July 10, 1832.]

the navy.

Act of 1828,

ch. 49, ante

p. 2111. Privileges of act of 9th

May, 1828,

extended to vessels in ballast.

Tonnage duty on the Victorine to be refunded.

CHAP. 196. An act to extend the provisions of the act, entitled "An act regulating commercial intercourse with the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe," approved the ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and to refund the tonnage duties on the French ship Victorine.

§1. Be it enacted, &c. That the privileges which are extended by the act, entitled "An act regulating commercial intercourse with the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe," approved the ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to French vessels laden and coming direct from those islands, shall be extended to vessels coming in the same manner, in ballast, subject, nevertheless, to the proviso contained in said act.

§2. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the treasury is hereby authorised to refund, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amount of tonnage duty as may have been collected, by the collector of the port of New York, upon the French ship Victorine, and which is referred to in the letter of the French Minister to the secretary of state, dated the fourth of November last. [Approved, July 13, 1832.]

CHAP. 197. An act giving the assent of Congress to an act of the Legislature of North Carolina, entitled "An act to incorporate a company, entitled the Roanoke Inlet Company, and for other purposes;" and also, to an act amendatory thereof, which passed in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

certain acts

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the assent of Congress be, and Assent of the same is hereby given, so far as the same may be necessary to Congress the validity thereof, to an act of the legislature of the state of granted to North Carolina, entitled "An act to incorporate a company enti- of N. C. tled the Roanoke Inlet Company, and for other purposes:" and, also, to an act of the said legislature to amend the former, which passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the assent hereby given And extended to the several acts aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken to extend to the provisions of to the provisions of any act which may be passed by the legisany lature of the state of North Carolina, to revive, amend, or carry amend, or act to revive, into full effect the purpose of the acts aforesaid, so far as the carry into assent of Congress may be deemed essential to the validity thereof. effect, the [Approved, July 13, 1832.]

CHAP. 199. An act to carry into effect the convention between the
United States and his Majesty the King of the French, concluded at
Paris on the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-

one.

acts aforesaid.

claims, &c.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United Three comStates, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall missioners to appoint three commissioners, who shall form a board, whose duty be appointed. it shall be to receive and examine all claims which may be pre- Board of comsented to them under the convention between the United States missioners to and France, of the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and receive and thirty-one, which are provided for by the said convention, accord- examine all ing to the provisions of the same, and the principles of justice, equity, and the law of nations. The said board shall have a Secretary and secretary, versed in the English, French, and Spanish languages, clerk allowed. and a clerk, both to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and the commissioners, secretary, and clerk, shall, before they enter on the duties of their offices, take oath well and faithfully to perform the duties thereof.

§2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners Commisshall be, and they are hereby, authorised to make all needful rules sioners autho and regulations, not contravening the laws of the land, the pro- rised to make visions of this act, or the provisions of the said convention, for rules and regulations, &c. carrying their said commission into full and complete effect.

-and termi

§3. And be it further enacted, That the board so constituted Board to meet shall meet on the first Monday of August next at the city of on 1st MonWashington; and, within two years from the time of its meeting, day of August shall terminate its duties. And the secretary of state is required nate its duties forthwith, after the passing of this act, to give notice of the said within two meeting; to be published in two newspapers in Washington, and years. in such other papers as he may think proper.

Public notice of meeting to § 4. And be it further enacted, That all records, documents, or be given. other papers, which now are in, or hereafter, during the continu- Records, doance of this commission, may come into the possession of the cuments, &c.

relative to claims, to be delivered to

commission.

Compensa

tion to commissioners,

each, $3,000

per annum.

department of state, in relation to such claims, shall be delivered to the commission aforesaid.

§ 5. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of the respective officers, for whose appointment provision is made by this act, shall not exceed the following sums, namely: to each of the said commissioners, at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum; to the secretary of the board at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum; and to the clerk at the rate of fifteen hundred Sec'y, $2000. dollars per annum. And the President of the United States shall Clerk, $1,500. be, and he is hereby, authorised to make such provision for the Contingent contingent expenses of the said commission, as shall appear to expenses of him reasonable and proper; and the said salaries and expenses commission. shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Commis

sioners to

report list of

awards to secretary of

6. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall report to the secretary of state a list of the several awards made by them; a certified copy whereof shall be by him transstate certi- mitted to the secretary of the treasury, who shall thereupon disfied copy to be tribute, in rateable proportions, among the persons in whose transmitted to favour the awards shall have been made, such moneys as may secretary of treasury, who have been received into the treasury in virtue of this act, accordshall there- ing to the proportions which their respective awards shall bear upon distrito the whole amount then received, first deducting such sums of bute, &c. money as may be due the United States from said persons in among the persons, &c. whose favour said awards shall be made; and shall also cause such moneys certificates to be issued by the secretary of the treasury, in such as may have form as he may prescribe, showing the proportion to which each may be entitled of the amount that may thereafter be received; Certificates to and, on the presentation of the said certificates at the treasury, as issue, show. the net proceeds of the general instalments, payable by the French government, shall have been received, such proportions thereof shall be paid to the legal holders of the said certificates.

been received, &c.

ing propor.

tion, &c.

The several instalments, with interest thereon, when

received from the French

to be transferred to the U. States.

§ 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to cause the several instalments, with the interest thereon, payable to the United States in virtue of the said convention, to be received from the French government, and government, transferred to the United States, in such manner as he may deem best, and the net proceeds thereof to be paid into the treasury; and, on the payment of the proceeds of each of the said instalments, there shall be set apart, of the money in the treasury, such further sum as would have been received from the net proceeds of such instalment, if the reservation stipulated by the fourth article of the said convention had not been deducted; and the moneys which may be thus set apart, together with those which may be received into the treasury under this act, shall be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to satisfy the awards herein provided for.

Net proceeds thereof to be paid into the

treasury; And such fur

ther sum set apart, &c.

Moneys appropriated to satisfy awards.

Official com

§8. And be it further enacted, That all communications to or from the secretary of the board of commissioners, on munications the business of the commission, shall pass by mail free of postage. § 9. And be it further enacted, That as soon as said comsecretary, free mission shall be executed and completed, the records, documents, Upon the exc. and all other papers, in the possession of the commission,

to and from

of postage.

or its officers, shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of cution of the commission, records, docu.

state.

of state.

§ 10. And be it further enacted, That for the term of ten years, ments, &c., to from and after the second day of February, one thousand eight be deposited hundred and thirty-two, wines, the produce of France, shall be in department admitted into the United States, on paying duties not exceeding Rates of duthe following rates on the gallon, (such as is at present used in ties to be paid the United States,) that is to say: six cents for red wine in casks, on French ten cents for white wine in casks, and twenty-two cents for wine wines, limited of all sorts in bottles. [Approved, July 13, 1832.]

CHAP. 200. An act extending further the right of debenture to the port of Key West, and altering the limits of the district of Key West.

to ten years

from 1st Feb

ruary, 1832.

merchandise

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all ships or vessels, and merchan- Vessels and dise, arriving in the United States, from and after the first day of from the Cape August next, from the Cape of Good Hope, or from any place of G. Hope, or beyond the same, shall be admitted to make entry at the port of from beyond entry of Key West.

the same, admitted to

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That hereafter, all the ports, make entry at harbours, shores, and waters, of that part of Florida extending the port of from Indian river to Tampa Bay, and of the islands opposite and Collection disnearest thereto, be, and the same are hereby annexed to, and trict of Key shall form a part of the collection district of Key West.

West extend

Proviso of 3d

§ 3. And be it further enacted, That the proviso of the third ed. section of the act of the seventh of May, one thousand eight hun- section of act dred and twenty-two, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far of 7th May, as respects the port of Key West, together with all such other 1822, repealparts of said act as are inconsistent with the provisions of the Act of 1822, present act. [Approved, July 13, 1832.]

CHAP. 201. An act authorising the entry of vessels and merchandise arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, or beyond the same, at the port of Edgartown, in Massachusetts.

ed.

c 62, vol. 3, p. 1850.

Vessels and

merchandise from the Cape

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the first of August of G. Hope, or next, all vessels or merchandise, arriving in the United States the same, adfrom beyond from the Cape of Good Hope, or from any place beyond the mitted to ensame, may be entered at the port of Edgartown, in Massachu- try at the setts. [Approved, July 13, 1832.] port of Edgar.

CHAP. 202. An act concerning the issuing of patents to aliens, for

useful discoveries and inventions.

town.

certain aliens

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the privileges granted to the Privileges aliens described in the first section of the act, to extend the privi- granted to lege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions to by act of 17th certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the April, 1800, penalties for violating the rights of patentees, approved April extended to seventeenth, eighteen hundred, be extended, in like manner, to who, at the every alien, every alien, who, at the time of petitioning for a patent, shall be time of petiresident in the United States, and shall have declared his intention, tioning for a according to law, to become a citizen thereof: Provided, That patent, shall every patent granted by virtue of this act, and the privileges the U. S. and

be resident in

tention to become a citi

zen.

c. 25, vol. 1,

p. 752.

shall have de- thereto appertaining, shall cease and determine and become clared his in- 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 Act of 1800, into public use in the United States, the invention 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 the earliest period within which he shall be entitled to become a citizen of the United States. [Approved, July 13, 1832.]

Time extend

ed to 1st Jan.

1835.

manner pro

vided by the act of May, 1830, to the

CHAP. 204. An act to extend the time of issuing Military Land Warrants to officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the time allowed for issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army, shall be extended to the first day of January eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

300,000 acres §2. And be it further enacted, That the further quantity of of land appro- three hundred thousand acres of land be, and the same is hereby priated, to be applied in the 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 the thirtieth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, which said appropriation shall be applied in the manner provided by the said act to the unsatisfied warrants which have been or may be issued as therein directed to the officers and soldiers and others as described in the first, fifth, and seventh sections of said act.

unsatisfied warrants is

sued to certain persons described in said act.

* Act of 1830, c. 216, ante p.

2214.

§3. And be it further enacted, That the last paragraph of the first section of the said act which authorises the issuing of warrants upon an affidavit that the original was lost, and upon the graph of first production of an official copy thereof, shall be, and the same is section of said hereby repealed. [Approved, July 13, 1832.]

Last para

act repealed.

No higher du- CHAP. 206. An act concerning Tonnage Duty on Spanish Vessels. ties of tonnage to be levied on § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That no other or greater duty of Span. vessels tonnage be levied in the ports of the United States on vessels in U.S. ports owned wholly by subjects of Spain, coming from a port in Spain, paid by Amer. than shall, by the secretary of the treasury, be ascertained to have vessels in Spa. been paid on American vessels in the ports of Spain previous nish ports pre- to the twentieth October, one thousand eight hundred and seven

than were

vious to 20th

Oct. 1817. teen.

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Vessels owned § 2. And be it further enacted, That vessels owned wholly wholly by by Spanish subjects, coming from any of the colonies of Spain, Span. subjects either directly or after touching at any other port or place, shall coming from pay, in the ports of the United States, the same rate of duty on Colonies of Spain, to pay tonnage that shall be levied on American vessels in the Spanish in the ports of colonial port from whence such Spanish vessel shall have last same rate of departed; the said amount to be ascertained by the secretary of duty on ton the treasury, who is hereby authorised, from time to time, to give

the U. S. the

nage that

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