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Act of May 27, 1796, ch. 31.
Secretary of the Treasury to employ aid to enforce quarantine regulations.
Act of Feb. 25, 1799, ch. 12.
Act limited to March 4, 1833.
officers, employed or authorized to be employed for the purposes of the revenue, should be insufficient to aid in the execution of the quarantine and health laws of any state, or the regulations made pursuant thereto, the said Secretary may cause to be employed such additional revenue boats and revenue officers as he may deem necessary for that purpose, the said revenue boats to be of such size and description as he may see proper. This act to continue in force until the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

Approved, July 13, 1832.

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July 13, 1832.

Chap. CCV.An Act to extend the time of issuing military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army.

Time extended to January 1, 1835.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time allowed for issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army shall be extended to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

Land appropriated, to be applied in the manner provided by the act of May 30, 1830, ch. 215.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the further quantity of three hundred thousand acres of land be, and the same is hereby appropriated, in addition to the quantity heretofore appropriated by the act entitled “An act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army during the revolutionary war,” approved the thirtieth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, which said appropriation shall be applied in the manner provided by the said act to the unsatisfied warrants which have been or may be issued as therein directed to the officers and soldiers and others as described in the first, fifth, and seventh sections of said act.

Last paragraph of the first section of said act repealed.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the last paragraph of the first section of the said act which authorizes the issuing of warrants upon an affidavit that the original was lost, and upon the production of an official copy thereof, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Approved, July 13, 1832.

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July 13, 1832.

Chap. CCVI.An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to pay to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the balance of an annuity, of six thousand dollars, usually paid to said Indians, and remaining unpaid for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

Appropriation.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be authorized to pay to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the sum of two thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, that being the balance due on the annuity payable to said Indians for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

Approved, July 13, 1832.

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July 13, 1832.

Chap. CCVII.An Act concerning tonnage duty on Spanish vessels.[1]

No higher duties of tonnage to be levied on Spanish vessels than are paid by Amer. vessels.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no other or greater duty of tonnage be levied in the ports of the United States on vessels owned wholly by subjects of Spain, coming from a port of Spain, than shall, by the Secretary of the Treasury, be ascertained to have been paid on

  1. See notes of acts relating to discriminating duties, vol. iv. p. 2.