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owner, consignee, agent, or exporter, and the oath to be made on theentry of such goods shall be annexed thereto.

Sec. 6 . And be it further enacted, That the assistant appraisers at NewYork shall receive a compensation of fifteen hundred dollars per annum;and those at Boston and Philadelphia , a compensation of twelve hundreddollars per annum ; to be paid out of the proceeds of the customs; andthe clerks, and all other persons employed in the appraisers’ office, shallbe appointed by the principal appraisers, and their number and compen-sation limited and fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all forfeitures incurred underthis act, shall be sued for, recovered, and distributed, according to theprovisions of the act, entitled “ An act to regulate the collection ofduties on imports and tonnage,” passed the second day of March, onethousand seven hundred and ninety-nine: Provided, That the appraisersand assistant appraisers shall, in no case, receive any proportion of suchforfeiture : And provided also, That the Secretary of the Treasury shallbe, and he is hereby, authorized to remit any such forfeiture wheneverhe is of opinion that no fraud on the revenue was intended.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That whenever, in the opinion ofthe Secretary of the Treasury, it may be necessary in order to carry intofull effect the laws for the collection of the revenue, he may authorizethe collector of any district into which goods, wares, or merchandise,subject to duty, may be imported, to require the owner, importer, or con-signee of such goods, wares, or merchandise, to give bond, in addition tothe bond now required by law, in a sum not exceeding the value of suchmerchandise, that he will produce or cause to be produced, within areasonable time, to be fixed by the said Secretary, such proof as the saidSecretary may deem necessary, and as may be in the power of the saidowner, importer, or consignee, to obtain, to enable the collector to ascer-tain the class or description of manufacture, or rate of duty, to whichsuch goods, wares, or merchandise, may be justly liable.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the thirtiethday of September next, all iron manufactured for railroads, shall beliable to the same rate of duty which is now imposed on bar or bolt ironof similar manufacture; and that all scrap iron shall be liable to thesame duty that is ..charged on iron in pigs: Provided, however, Thatwhen it shall be satisfactorily proved to the Secretary of the Treasury,that any of the said iron imported for the purpose of being applied inthe construction of any railroad or inclined plane by any state or incor-porated company, has been actually and permanently laid on any suchrailroad or inclined plane, that then and in that case he may allow tosuch state or company, a drawback of the duty on such railroad iron solaid, or, if the duty upon the same shall have been actually paid, he mayrefund the same : Provided, such drawback or repayment shall not reducethe duty to be paid on such iron below twenty-five per cent, ad valorem,nor upon any less quantity than twenty tons.

Approved, May 28,1830.

Chap. CXLVIII.— Jin Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indiansresiding in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of theriver Mississippi .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be law-ful for the President of the United States to cause so much of any terri-tory belonging to the United States, west of the river Mississippi , notincluded in any state or organized territory, and to which the Indiantitle has been extinguished, as he may judge necessary, to be divided

Compensationof assistant ap-praiser, &c.

Forfeitures.

Act of March2, 1799, ch.22.

Proviso.

Additional

bond.

Iron—duty.

Proviso.

Proviso.

Statute I.May 28, 1830.

Districts to belaid off.