Repeal of duties on copper bottoms, &c. repealed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, so much of the act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, passed July the fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, as repeals the duties heretofore levied on copper bottoms cut round, and copper bottoms raised to the edge, and still bottoms cut round and turned upon the edge, and parts thereof, and on copper plates or sheets, weighing more than thirty-four ounces per square foot, commonly called braziers’ copper, and on tobacco leaves, or unmanufactured, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Duty on sheet and rolled brass.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing contained in the act of the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, shall be so construed as to authorize the exemption, from the payment of duty on sheet and rolled brass, but the same shall be charged with the payment of a duty of twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
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Chap. LXIII.—An Act making appropriations for the erection of certain fortifications.
Appropriations for erection of fortifications.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
For a fort on Throg’s Neck, East river, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For rebuilding fort Delaware, Delaware river, fifty thousand dollars.
For a fort on Foster’s Bank, Pensacola harbour, Florida, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For a fort on Grande Terre, Barataria, Louisiana, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
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Chap. LXIV.—An Act for improving the navigation of certain rivers in the territories of Florida and Michigan, and for surveys, and for other purposes.
Appropriations for the improvement of rivers in Florida and Michigan.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purpose of removing obstructions, and improving the navigation of certain rivers in the territories of Florida and Michigan, the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury; to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States.
For removing obstructions in, and improving the navigation of, the Escambia river, five thousand dollars.
For improving the navigation of the Ochlochney river, five thousand dollars.
For improving the navigation of the Choctawhachie river, as recommended by the Postmaster General, for the transportation of the mail from Pensacola to Tallahassee, five thousand dollars.
For improving the harbour at Chicago on lake Michigan, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For a survey of White and Saint Francis rivers, in the territory of Arkansas, five hundred dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1833.