merchandise, arriving in the United States, from and after the first day of August next, from the Cape of Good Hope, or from any place beyond the same, shall be admitted to make entry at the port of entry of Key West.
Collection district of Key West extended.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, hereafter, all the ports, harbours, shores and waters, of that part of Florida extending from Indian river to Tampa bay, and of the islands opposite and nearest thereto, be, and the same are hereby, annexed to, and shall form a part of, the collection district of Key West.
Proviso of 3d section of act of May 7, 1822, ch. 62, repealed.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proviso of the third section of the act of the seventh of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as respects the port of Key West, together with all such other parts of said act as are inconsistent with the provisions of the present act.
Approved, July 13, 1832.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CCII.—An Act authorizing the entry of vessels and merchandise arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, or beyond the same, at the port of Edgartown, in Massachusetts.
Certain vessels admitted to entry at Edgartown.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first of August next, all vessels or merchandise, arriving in the United States from the Cape of Good Hope, or from any place beyond the same, may be entered at the port of Edgartown, in Massachusetts.
Approved, July 13, 1832.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CCIII.—An Act concerning the issuing of patents to aliens, for useful discoveries and inventions.
The privileges granted to aliens extended.
Act of April 17, 1800, ch. 25.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the privileges granted to the aliens described in the first section of the act, to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the rights of patentees, approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred, be extended, in like manner, to every alien, who, at the time of petitioning for a patent, shall be a resident in the United States, and shall have declared his intention, according to law, to become a citizen thereof:Proviso. Provided, That every patent granted by virtue of this act and the privileges thereto appertaining, shall cease and determine and become 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 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.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Expired.]
Chap. CCIV.—An Act to enforce quarantine regulations.
