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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all proceedings of a civil or criminal nature now pending in, or returnable to, said court, shall be proceeded in by the said court, in the same manner as if no alteration of the time for holding said court had taken place.

Approved, May 22, 1832.

Statute Ⅰ.

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May 22, 1832.

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Chap. XCIII.—An Act to authorize the removal of the land office from Mount Salus, in the state of Mississippi, and to remove the land office from Franklin to Fayette, in the state of Missouri.

Land offices to be removed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the land office at Mount Salus, in the Choctaw district, in the state of Mississippi, shall be removed to, and located at, such place in the said land district as the President of the United States may direct, if in his opinion any removal be necessary; and that the land office at Franklin, in the county of Howard, state of Missouri, shall be removed to, and located in, the town of Fayette in said county; and it shall be the duty of the registers, and the receivers of public money for said land offices, within sixty days from and after the passage of this act, to remove the books, records, and whatever else belongs to said offices, to their respective places of location as herein provided for.

Approved, May 22, 1832.

Statute Ⅰ.

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May 25, 1832.

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Chap. CIV.—An Act to exempt the vessels of Portugal from the payment of duties on tonnage.^[1]

No tonnage duties to be levied.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no duties upon tonnage shall be hereafter levied or collected of the vessels of the kingdom of Portugal: Provided, always, That whenever the President of the United States shall be satisfied that the vessels of the United States are subjected in the ports of the kingdom of Portugal, to payment of any duties of tonnage, he shall, by proclamation, declare the fact, and the duties now payable by the vessels of that kingdom shall be levied and paid, as if this act had not been passed.

Approved, May 25, 1832.

Statute Ⅰ.

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May 25, 1832.

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Chap. CV.—An Act to extend the limits of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.

Limits extended.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the limits of Georgetown, in the district of Columbia, be, and they are hereby, extended, so as to include the part of a tract of land called “Pretty Prospect,” recently purchased by the corporation of the said town, as a site for their poor’s-house; beginning, for the said piece of ground, at a stone marked number four, extending at the end of four hundred and seventy-six poles on the first line of a tract of land, called the “Rock of Dunbarton;” said stone also standing on the western boundary line of lot numbered two hundred and sixty, of Beatty and Hawkins’ addition to said town; and running thence, north, seventy-eight degrees, east thirty-eight poles; south eighty degrees, east three poles: south, eighteen poles, south twelve degrees, east nine poles; south eleven degrees, west twelve poles; south seventy-two

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1. Notes of the acts relating to discriminating duties, vol. iv. p. 2.