sixth ranges of townships south of said base line, and west of said principal meridian. And there is hereby established a land office within the same, to be located at such place as the President,Land-office. in his discretion, shall think proper to designate.
Register and receiver.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, under the existing laws, a register and receiver in and for said district, whose compensation shall be the same as provided for other registers and receivers.
Approved, January 30, 1833.
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Chap. XVI.—An Act for making Calais and Penbroke, in the state of Maine, ports of delivery.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the towns of Calais and Pembroke, in the state of Maine, shall be ports of delivery, to be annexed to the district of Passamaquoddy.
Approved, February 5, 1833.
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Chap. XXIII.—An Act to explain an act, entitled “An act to reduce the duties on coffee, tea, and cocoa,” passed the twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
Act of May 20, 1830, ch. 101.
Coffee and cocoa in store Dec. 31, 1830, put on same footing as coffee and cocoa imported after said date.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases in which the importers of coffee or cocoa, which remained in the custom-house stores under the bond of the importer on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, shall have paid on the same a greater amount of duty than is imposed by the act passed on the twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, on coffee or cocoa, imported after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to refund, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to such importer, the amount of such excess so collected.
Coffee, tea, and cocoa, in store Dec. 31, 1831, put on same footing as coffee, tea, and cocoa imported after same date.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in all cases in which the imported of coffee, tea, or cocoa, which remained in the custom-house stores, on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, under the control of the proper officer of the customs, shall have been compelled to pay on the same a greater amount of duty than is imposed by said act, on coffee, tea, or cocoa, imported after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to refund, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to such importers, the amount of such excess so collected.
Approved, February 9, 1833.
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Chap. XXX.—An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to alter and amend an act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive;” approved nineteenth February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
Occupants prior to October 31, 1832, authorized to purchase.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons who became entitled to an allotment of land under the contract recited in the first section of the act to which this is an amendment, their heirs, devisees, or assigns,
