TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch.93, 104,105. 1832.
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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all proceedings of a civil orcriminal nature now pending in, or returnable to, said court, shall beproceeded in by the said court, in the same manner as if no alterationof the time for holding said court had taken place.
Approved, May 22, 1832.
Chap. XCIII .—An Act to authorize the removal of the land office from MountSalus, in the state of Mississippi , and to remove the land office from Franklin toFayette, in the state of Missouri .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the land office at MountSalus, in the Choctaw district, in the state of Mississippi , shall be removedto, and located at, such place in the said land district as the Presidentof the United States may direct, if in his opinion any removal benecessary; and that the land office at Franklin, in the county of Howard,state of Missouri , shall be removed to, and located in, the town of Fayettein said county; and it shall be the duty of the registers, and the receiversof public money for said land offices, within sixty days from and afterthe passage of this act, to remove the books, records, and whatever elsebelongs to said offices, to their respective places of location as hereinprovided for.
Approved, May 22, 1832.
Chap. CIV .—An Act to exempt the vessels of Portugalfrom the payment of duties
on tonnage, (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That no duties upon tonnageshall be hereafter levied or collected of the vessels of the kingdom ofPortugal: Provided, ahoays, That whenever the President of the UnitedStates shall be satisfied that the vessels of the United States are subjectedin the ports of the kingdom of Portugal, to payment of any duties of ton-nage, he shall, by proclamation, declare the fact, and the duties now pay-able by the vessels of that kingdom shall be levied and paid, as if thisact had not been passed.
Approved, May 25, 1832.
Chap. CV. —An Act to extend the limits of Georgetown, in the District of
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the limits of Georgetown ,in the district of Columbia, be, and they are hereby, extended, so as toinclude the part of a tract of land called “ Pretty Prospect,” recently pur-chased by the corporation of the said town, as a site for their poor’s-house;beginning, for the said piece of ground, at a stone marked number four,extending at the end of four hundred and seventy-six poles on the firstline of a tract of land, called the “ Rock of Dunbarton said stone alsostanding on the western boundary line of lot numbered two hundred andsixty, of Beatty and Hawkins’ addition to said town ; and running thence,north, seventy-eight degrees, east thirty-eight poles ; south eighty degrees,east three poles: south, eighteen poles, south twelve degrees, east ninepoles; south eleven degrees, west twelve poles; south seventy-two
Statute X.May 22, J832.
Land offices tobe removed.
Statute I.May 25, 1832.
No tonnageduties to be le-vied.
Proviso.
Statute I.May 25, 1832.
Limits extend-ed.
(<t) Notes of the acts relating to discriminating duties, vol. iv. 2.
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