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rized to pro-tect the lands,&c.
Rents to beapplied to thesupport of com-mon schools.
Statute II.Jan. 6, 1829.
All merchan-dise now enti-tled to deben-ture, or whichmay be hereaf-ter imported, tobe allowed thebenefit of draw-back, &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Statute II.Jan. 21, 1829.
Exemption ofcertain sur-geons in thenavy from cer-tain requisitesto the allow-ance of pay andrations providedfor by act ofMay 1828, ch.121 .
authorized to make, and carry into effect, such laws and needful regula-tions as they shall deem most expedient to protect from injury and wastethe sixteenth section in all townships of land in said territory, wheresurveys have, been, or may hereafter be, made, which sections are reservedfor the support of schools in each township, and to provide by law forleasing or renting the same, for any term not exceeding five years, insuch manner as to render said school lands most valuable and productive,and shall apply the rents derived therefrom to the support of commonschools, in the respective townships, according to the design of thedonation, and to no other purpose whatever.
Approved, January 6, 1829.
Chap. IV .—An Act extending the term within which merchandise may be exportedwith the benefit of drawback.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the passageof this act, all goods, wares, and merchandise which are now entitledto debenture, or which may be hereafter imported, may be exported withthe benefit of drawback, and without any deduction from the amount ofthe duty on the same, at any time within three years from the date whenthe same may have been, or shall be imported: Provided, That all exist-ing laws regulating the exportation of goods, wares, and merchandise,shall have been in all other respects complied with.
And provided further, That this act shall not be so construed as toalter in any manner the terms of credit now allowed by law for theduties on goods, wares, or merchandise, imported.
Approved, January 6, 1829.
Chap. V .—An Act to allow a salary to the marshal of the district of Connecticut .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of two hundreddollars be, and the same hereby is, allowed annually, as a salary to themarshal of the district of Connecticut .
Approved, January 6, 1829.
Chap. VII .—An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act for the better organizationof the medical department of the navy,” approved twenty-fourth May, eighteenhundred and twenty-eight, (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That every surgeon who wasin the navy, at the time of the passage of the act for the better organiza-tion of the medical department of the navy, approved twenty-fourth May,one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall be entitled to the addi-tional pay and rations (according to length of service) provided for by thefourth section of that act, notwithstanding such surgeons may not havebeen examined, or received their appointments in the manner prescribedby the first section thereof.
Approved, January 21, 1829.
(a) See notes to act ofMay 24, 182S, ch. 121.