authorized to make, and carry into effect, such laws and needful regulations as they shall deem most expedient to protect from injury and waste the sixteenth section in all townships of land in said territory, where surveys have been, or may hereafter be, made, which sections are reserved for the support of schools in each township, and to provide by law for leasing or renting the same, for any term not exceeding five years, in such manner as to render said school lands most valuable and productive, and shall apply the rents derivedRents to be applied to the support of common schools. therefrom to the support of common schools, in the respective townships, according to the design of the donation, and to no other purpose whatever.
Approved, January 6, 1829.
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Chap. IV.—An Act extending the term within which merchandise may be exported with the benefit of drawback.
All merchandise now entitled to debenture, or which may be hereafter imported, to be allowed the benefit of drawback, &c.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, all goods, wares, and merchandise which are now entitled to debenture, or which may be hereafter imported, may be exported with the benefit of drawback, and without any deduction from the amount of the duty on the same, at any time within three years from the date when the same may have been, or shall be imported: Provided, That all existing laws regulating the exportation of goods, wares, and merchandise, shall have been in all other respects complied with.
Proviso.And provided further, That this act shall not be so construed as to alter in any manner the terms of credit now allowed by law for the duties on goods, wares, or merchandise, imported.
Approved, January 6, 1829.
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Chap. V.—An Act to allow a salary to the marshal of the district of Connecticut.
Salary of two hundred dollars allowed to the marshal of Connecticut.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two hundred dollars be, and the same hereby is, allowed annually, as a salary to the marshal of the district of Connecticut.
Approved, January 6, 1829.
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Chap. VII.—An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act for the better organization of the medical department of the navy,” approved twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.[1]
Exemption of certain surgeons in the navy from certain requisites to the allowance of pay and rations provided for by act of May 1828, ch. 121.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every surgeon who was in the navy, at the time of the passage of the act for the better organization of the medical department of the navy, approved twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall be entitled to the additional pay and rations (according to length of service) provided for by the fourth section of that act, notwithstanding such surgeons may not have been examined, or received their appointments in the manner prescribed by the first section thereof.
Approved, January 21, 1829.- ↑ See notes to act of May 24, 1828, ch. 121.
