be lawful for said company to pass through any of the reserved squares or open spaces of the city without the consent of Congress.
Approved, May 9, 1828.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XLIX.—An Act regulating commercial intercourse with the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe.[1]
French vessels coming directly from the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe, and laden with articles, the growth, &c., of either of said islands, admitted into the ports of the United States, on certain conditions.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all French vessels coming directly from the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe, and laden with articles, the growth or manufacture of either of said islands, and which are permitted to be exported therefrom in American vessels, may be admitted into the ports of the United States on payment of no higher duties on tonnage, or on their cargoes, as aforesaid, than are imposed on American vessels, and on like cargoes imported in American vessels: Provided, That if the President of the United States shall, at any time, receive satisfactory information that the privileges allowed to American vessels and their cargoes at said islands, by the French ordinance of February fifth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, have been revoked or annulled, he is hereby authorized, by proclamation, to suspend the operation of this act, and withhold all privileges allowed under it.
Approved, May 9, 1828.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. LII.—An Act supplementary to “An act to provide for the adjustment of claims of persons entitled to indemnification, under the first article of the treaty of Ghent, and for the distribution among such claimants, of the sum paid, and to be paid by the Government of Great Britain, under a convention between the United States and his Britannic Majesty, concluded at London, on the thirteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six,” passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 36.
Eighth section repealed.
Commission not to continue after Sept. 1, 1828.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the eighth section of the aforesaid act shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commission created by the said act, shall not continue after the first day of September next.
Approved, May 15, 1828.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. LIII.—An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution.
Each of the surviving officers of the revolutionary army in the continental line, to receive pay according to his rank in the line.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That each of the surviving officers of the army of the Revolution in the continental line, who was entitled to half pay by the resolve of October twenty-first, seventeen hundred and eighty, be authorized to receive, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of his full pay in said line, according to his rank in the line, to begin on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and to continue during his natural life:Proviso. Provided, That, under this act, no officer shall be entitled to receive a larger sum than the full pay of a captain in said line.
Money received since March 3, 1826, to be deducted.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever any of said officers has received money of the United States, as a pensioner, since the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, afore-- ↑ See notes to act of Jan. 7, 1824, ch. 4.
