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Public Acts of the Twenty-Third Congress, First Session, Chapter 131
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June 30, 1834.

Chap. CXXXI.An Act to suspend the operations of certain provisoes of “An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports,” approved the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.

Part of act of July 14, 1832, ch. 227, suspended.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisoes of the tenth and twelfth clauses of the second section of the act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, passed July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same are hereby, suspended until the third day of March next.Secretary of Treasury to report to Congress. And in the mean time, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to inquire, whether it be necessary to except any manufactured articles from the operation and effect of those provisoes, by reason of the difficulty of ascertaining the duties chargeable upon such articles, and that he make report to Congress, at the commencement of the next session.

Approved, June 30, 1834.