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the estates and property within the jurisdiction of the corporation inarrear, according to the provisions of this act, and of the several actsreferred to therein, as shall be sufficient to supply such ascertaineddeficiency; and, on the completion of such collection, the holder orholders of the certificates of the stock of the corporation, shall be entitledto receive such amount as may have been found due, and unprovidedfor, by the sums before paid in, or collected on account of such corpo-ration.

Approved, May 24, 1828.

Chap. LXXXIX.— Jin Act making appropriations for custom-houses and ware-houses.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of theTreasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause to be selected, andpurchased, a suitable site for a custom-house and ware-house atNewport, in Rhode Island , and to cause a safe and convenient build-ing to be erected thereon, for the transaction of custom-house busi-ness, and for the safe keeping of the records thereof and of the propertyin the custody of the government; and that a sum not exceeding tenthousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the pur-poses aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro-priated.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, likewise authorized to cause to be purchased asuitable site for a custom-house and ware-house in the city of Mobile , inthe state of Alabama , and to have erected a safe and convenient build-ing, or to purchase a proper site with a suitable and convenient build-ing already erected thereon, for the transaction of custom-house businessand for the safe keeping of the property in custody of the government;and that a sum not exceeding eight thousand five hundred dollars be, andthe same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid, out of anymoney in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause to be put in proper repair, andto be used for a custom-house, a certain brick store, in Newburyport,Massachusetts , once the property of Abner Wood and David Wood,junior, of said Newburyport, but now belonging to the United States ;and that a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars be, and the sameis hereby appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid, out of any money inthe treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to cause a suitable site to be selectedand purchased for a custom-house and warehouse at Portland, in Maine ,and to cause a safe and convenient building to be erected thereon, forthe transaction of custom-house business, and for the safe keeping of therecords thereof, and of the property in the custody of the government;and that a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars is hereby appro-priated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,for the purposes aforesaid.

Approved, May 24, 1828.

Statute I.

May 34, 1828.

[Obsolete.]

Secretary ofthe Treasury tocause to bepurchased asuitable site fora custom-houseand warehouse,at Newport ,Rhode Island .

A sum not ex-ceeding 10,000dollars appro-priated.

Also a suita-ble site for acustom-houseand warehousein the city ofMobile , Ala.

A sum notexceeding 8500dollars appro-priated.

A certainbrick store inNewburyport, 'Mass. , to be putin repair andused as a cus-tom-house.

A sum notexceeding 300dollars appro-priated.

A suitablesite to be se-lected, &c., fora custom-houseand warehouseat Portland ,Maine .

A sum not ex-ceeding!^,000appropriated.

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