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may be granted; and that he shall annually report to Congress an ab-stract, showing the condition of these funds in all these particulars, andthe receipts and expenditures during the year; and cause a similar ac-count of the receipts and expenditures of the navy hospital fund, to bekept and reported to Congress , annually, in like manner, and at the sametime, with the reports upon the pension funds.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint a clerk, who shall per-form all the duties which shall be required of him in relation to saidfunds; and shall receive as a full compensation for his services, and inlieu of all commissions or other allowances, a salary of one thousandsix hundred dollars, to be paid quarter-yearly, out of the treasury of theUnited States .
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all the powers conferred, andduties imposed by laws now in force, on the commissioners of the navyand privateer pension and navy hospital funds, be, and they are hereby,transferred to the Secretary of the Navy ; and all acts, and parts of acts,contrary to the provisions of this act, be, and they are hereby, repealed.
Approved, July 10, 1832.
Clerk.
Salary.
Powers and du-ties of commis-sioners transfer-red to the Secre-tary of theNavy.
Statute I.
Chap. CXCVI .—An Act to extend the provisions of the act, entitled “An act re- July 13, 1832.
gulating commercial intercourse with the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe, ” -
approved the ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, andto refund the tonnage duties on the French ship Victorine. (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the privileges which areextended by the act, entitled “ An act regulating commercial intercoursewith the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe, ” approved the ninth ofMay, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to French vesselsladen and coming direct from those islands, shall be extended to vesselscoming in the same manner, in ballast, subject, nevertheless, to the pro-viso contained in said act.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Trea-sury is hereby authorized to refund, out of any money in the treasurynot otherwise appropriated, such amount of tonnage duty as may havebeen collected, by the collector of the port of New York, upon theFrench ship Victorine, and which is referred to in the letter of the French minister to the Secretary of State, dated the fourth of November last.
Approved, July 13, 1832.
Privileges ofact of May 9,1828, ch. 49, ex-tended to ves-sels in ballast.
Tonnage dutyon the Victorineto be refunded.
Statute I.
Chap. CXC VII —An Act giving the assent of Congress to an act of the legislature j u Iy 13,1832.
of North Carolina , entitled “An act to incorporate a company, entitled the Roan- -
oke Inlet Company, and for other purposesand also, to an act amendatorythereof, which passed in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Assent of Con-
1 States of America, in Congress assembled, That the assent of Congress gress to acta ofbe, and the same is hereby given, so far as the same may be necessary Nortl1 Carolina,to the validity thereof, to an act of the legislature of the state of NorthCarolina , entitled “An act to incorporate a company entitled the RoanokeInlet Company, and for other purposes;” and, also, to an act of the saidlegislature to amend the former, which passed in the year one thousandeight hundred and twenty-eight.
(a) See notes to the act of January 7, 1824, ch. 4, for the acts relating to discriminating duties,ante, p. 2.