the treasury.

secretary of the treasury, under the direction of the President of Duty of the the United States, from time to time, to establish such rules and secretary of regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States, as the President of the United States shall think proper, to secure a just, faithful, and impartial appraisal of all goods, wares, and merchandise, as aforesaid, imported into the United States, and just and proper entries of such actual value thereof, and of the square yards, parcels, or other quantities, 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 session of Congress.

made to the

foreign ves

§ 10. And be it further enacted, That an addition of ten per An addition centum shall be made to the several rates of duties by this act of ten per imposed, in respect to all goods, wares and merchandise, on the cent. to be importation of which, in American or foreign vessels, a specific duties, &c. on discrimination has not already been made, which, from and after all goods, &c. the third day of March aforesaid, shall be imported in ships or imported in vessels not of the United States: Provided, That this additional sels, where a duty shall not apply to goods, wares, and merchandise which shall specific disbe imported after said day in ships or vessels not of the United crimination, States, entitled by treaty, or by an act or acts of Congress, to be Proviso. 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.

&c.

§ 11. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed a Drawback of drawback of the duties by this act imposed, on goods, wares, and duties to be merchandise, which shall be imported from and after the said allowed. third day of March, upon the exportation thereof, within the time and in the manner prescribed in the existing laws at the time. Provided, no drawback shall be allowed on a less quantity of cor- Proviso. dage than five tons.

12. And be it further enacted, That the existing laws at the Existing laws time, shall extend to, and be in force for the collection of the to continue in force, after 3d duties imposed by this act, on goods, wares and merchandise March, 1833, which shall be imported into the United States from and after the and to extend said third day of March; and for the recovery, collection, distri- to recovery, bution, and remission of all fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and fines, penalfor the allowance of drawbacks by this act authorised, as fully ties, &c. 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 which is contrary to this act, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.

to adopt the

§ 13. And be it further enacted, That whenever goods composed Appraiser, in wholly, or in part of wool or cotton, of similar kind, but different certain cases quality, are found in the same packages, charged at an average value of best price, it shall be the duty of the appraisers to adopt the value of articles in the best article contained in such package, and so charged as the package as average value of the whole; and that so much of the act entitled average value "An act for the more effectual collection of the impost duties," approved the twenty-eighth of May, one thousand eight hundred c. 147, ante p. and thirty, as requires the appraisers to adopt the value of the best 2201.

of the whole.

Goods not

examination,

with entry,

feited.

article contained in a package as the average value of the whole, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

§14. And be it further enacted, That whenever, upon the found upon opening and examination of any package or packages of imported to correspond goods, composed wholly or in part, of wool or cotton, in the manner provided by the fourth section of the act for the more effectual &c. to be for- collection of the impost duties, approved on twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, the said goods shall be found not to correspond with the entry thereof at the customhouse; and if any package shall be found to contain any article not entered, such article shall be forfeited; or if the package be made up with intent to evade or defraud the revenue, the package. shall be forfeited; and so much of the said section as prescribes a forfeiture of goods found not to correspond with the invoice thereof, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Ad valorem duties, how estimated.

Pound sterl

ing to be valued at $4,80.

Duty on sirup.

§ 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.

§ 15. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said 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. § 17. And be it further enacted, That sirup imported in casks, and all sirup for making sugar, shall be rated by weight, and pay the same duty as the sugar of which it is composed would pay in its natural state; and that loaf or lump sugar, when imported in a pulverised, liquid or other form, shall pay the same duty as is imposed by law on loaf or lump sugar; and all fossil and crude minMineral salt. eral salt shall pay fifteen per centum ad valorem.

Sugar.

Articles enu. merated in bill may be

put into custom house

bond; and

§ 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 custom-house stores, under the bond of the importer or owner; and such of said articles as shall remain stores under under the control of the proper officer of the customs on the third those remain. day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, shall be subject ing there af. to no other duty than if the same were imported, respectively, ter 3d March, after that day. And if the duties or any part thereof on the arti1633, shall be cles deposited as aforesaid 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 taken 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 of March next: And provided further, That the secretary of the treasury be authorised to prescribe such rules and regulations as

subject to no other duty, &c. And if

the duties,

&c.

Proviso.

Proviso.

may be necessary to carry this section into effect. [Approved, July 14, 1832.]

CHAP. 227. An act in addition to an act, entitled “ An act for the Act of 1831, relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States."

pcrsons in

ch. 297, ante p. 2236. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all and each of the provisions of Provisions of the act to which this is an addition, shall be extended to every former act experson who was a debtor to the United States on the first day of tended to all January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, in any sum debted to the of money which he is unable to pay, unless such person be indebt- U. S. on the ed as the principal in an official bond, or for public money 1st day of received by him, and not paid over or accounted for according 1831, unless, January, to law; or for any fine, forfeiture, or penalty, incurred by the &c. violation of any law of the United States.

authorised to

2. And be it further enacted, That, in all such cases of inde- Secretary of tedness as are described in the fourth section of the act to which the treasury this is an addition, the secretary of the treasury may, according execute reto his discretion, execute to the debtor of the United States a leases in cerrelease, as mentioned therein, without any payment by said deb- tain cases. tor, if the secretary of the treasury is satisfied that said debtor is unable to pay any part of said debt.

entitled, &c.

§ 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing contained in this Debtor to be act, or in the act of which it is an amendment, shall be construed discharged to entitle any government debtor to be discharged, until it shall until it appear that the sureappear to the satisfaction of the secretary of the treasury, that ties are unathe sureties of such debtor are unable to pay the said debt, and ble to pay the that they are entitled to the provisions of this act, in like manner debt, and are as the said principal debtor shall be entitled to the same, or, unless or unless, &c. 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.

§ 4. And be it further enacted, That there be, and hereby is, $5,000 appro, appropriated the sum of five thousand dollars, out of any unappropriated, priated moneys in the treasury, to carry into effect this act, and that of which it is an amendment. [Approved, July 14, 1832.]

CHAP. 228. An act to provide for the appointment of three Commissioners to treat with the Indians, and for other purposes.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the President shall nominate, Three comand, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall missioners to be appointed appoint three commissioners, who shall visit and examine the to visit and country set apart for the emigrating Indians, west of the Missis- examine the sippi river; and shall, when it is necessary, enter into negotiations country set with them for the adjustment of any difficulties which may exist apart for the emigrating in the location of the lands of the emigrating Indians, in the boun- Indians; to daries thereof. Such commissioners shall also ascertain and enter into nereport the proper places of location for such of the tribes and gotiations with them, portions of tribes, as may yet wish to remove to that country, etc.; and shall transmit to the War Department all the information to ascertain

and report

proper places of location, etc;

to arrange

they can procure respecting its climate, soil, and capacity to support the number of Indians who will probably remove to, and reside in it.

To endeavour § 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall be authorised to convene together such of the tribes as may any difficul- be in a state of hostility, or as may be apparently disposed to ties that may exist between commit, or may have committed, depredations or aggressions hostile tribes; against others, and to endeavour to arrange the difficulties between them, so that the protection promised to the emigrating Indians by the sixth section of the act of May twenty-eight, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, may be secured to them.

To report a plan for the improvement

of the Indians;

To inquire and report relative to

mode of emi

grating, etc; To receive instructions from War Department. $20,000 appropriated.

Act limited to two years.

Certain obser

vations to be made prepaadjustment of the boundary line of Ohio.

ratory to the

Result to be returned within one year.

§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.

§ 4. And be it further enacted, 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.

§ 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.

§ 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.

§ 7. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force for the term of two years, and no longer. [Approved, July 14, 1832.]

CHAP. 229. An act to provide for the taking of certain observations preparatory to the adjustment of the northern boundary line of the state of Ohio.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States cause to be ascertained, by accurate observation, the latitude and longitude of the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan; and that he cause to be ascertained by like observation, the point on the Miami of the Lake which is due east therefrom, and also, the latitude and longitude of the most northerly cape of the Miami bay; also, that he cause to be ascertained, with all practicable accuracy, the latitude and longitude of the most southerly point in the northern boundary line of the United States in Lake Erie; and also, the points at which a direct line drawn from the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, to the most southerly point in said northern boundary line of the United States, will intersect the Miami river and bay; and also, that he cause to be ascertained by like observation, the point in the Mississippi which is due west from the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan; and that the said observations be made, and the result thereof returned, to the proper department within the current year. [Approved, July 14, 1832.]

CHAP. 230. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for Act of 1797, mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities ch.67, vol. 1, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned."

p. 458.

&c.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That in all cases of fine, penalty, or Secretary of forfeiture, mentioned and embraced in the act entitled "An act to the treasury authorised, in provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and certain cases, disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned," or in to prescribe any act in addition to, or amendatory of said act, and not exceed- such rules, ing fifty dollars in amount, or value, the secretary of the treasury be, and he hereby is, authorised, if in his opinion the said fine, penalty, or forfeiture was incurred without wilful negligence or intention of fraud, to prescribe such rules and mode of proceeding, to ascertain the facts, as in his opinion may be convenient and proper, without regard to the provisions of the act above referred to; and upon the said facts, so to be ascertained as aforesaid, the said secretary may exercise all the power conferred And to exerupon him in and by said act, as fully as he might have done had cise all the said facts been ascertained under and according to the provisions red upon him, of said act. [Approved, July 14,∙1832.]

CHAT. 233. An act for the relief of the Invalid Pensioners of the

United States.

power confer

&c.

§ 1. Be it enacted &c. That an act, entitled "An act regulat- Act of 1819, ing the payments to invalid pensioners," approved the third day ch. 204, vol. of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, be, and the 3, p. 1739. same is hereby, repealed. [Approved, July 14, 1832.]

CHAP. 234. An act to amend the act, entitled "An act for the relief Act of 1828, of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolu. tion."

ch. 53, ante

p. 2112.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the third section of the act, enti- 93 of act of 15th May, tled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and sol1828, not to diers of the army of the revolution," approved the fifteenth day embrace inof May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall not valid penbe construed to embrace invalid pensioners; and that the pension sioners, &c. of invalid soldiers shall not be deducted from the amount receivable by them under the said act. [Approved, July 14, 1832.]

CHAP. 235. An act repealing part of the fifth section of an act, entitled "An act to establish ports of delivery at Port Pontchartrain and Delaware City, and for other purposes.'

p. 2242.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the fifth section of an act, entitled "An act to establish ports of delivery at Port Pont- Act of 1831, chartrain and Delaware city, and for other purposes," approved ch.311, ante March second, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, as provides for the appointment of a surveyor to reside at Prospect Office of sur in the district of Belfast, in the state of Maine, be, and the same veyor discon. is hereby repealed. [Approved, July 14, 1832.]

tinued.

CHAP. 236. An act to amend the several acts for the establishment of Act of 1824, a territorial government in Florida.

ch. 163, vol. 3,

p. 1952.

1. Be it enacted, &c. That the court of appeals in the terri- Court of Ap