TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess.I. Ch.202,203,204. 1832.
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merchandise, arriving in the United States , from and after the first dayof August next, from the Cape of Good Hope , or from anyplace beyondthe same, shall be admitted to make entry at the port of entry of Key West .
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, hereafter, all the ports, har-bours, shores and waters, of that part of Florida extending from Indianriver to Tampa bay, and of the islands opposite and nearest thereto, be,and the same are hereby, annexed to, and shall form apart of, the collec-tion district of Key West .
Sf.c. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proviso of the third sec-tion of the act of the seventh of May, one thousand eight hundred andtwenty-two, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as respects theport of Key West , together with all such other parts of said act as areinconsistent with the provisions of the present act.
Approved, July 13, 1832.
Chap. CCII.— Jin Act authorizing the entry of vessels and merchandise arrivingfrom the Cape of Good Hope , or beyond the same, at the port of Edgartown, in
Be it enacted by the Senate and House, of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the firstof August next, all vessels or merchandise, arriving in the United States from the Cape of Good Hope , or from any place beyond the same, maybe entered at the port of Edgartown, in Massachusetts .
Approved, July 13, 1832.
Chap. CCIII .—An Act concerning the issuing of patents to aliens, for usefuldiscoveries and inventions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the privileges granted tothe aliens described in the first section of the act, to extend the privilegeof obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions to certain per-sons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties forviolating the rights of patentees, approved April seventeenth, eighteenhundred, be extended, in like manner, to every alien, who, at the timeof petitioning for a patent, shall be resident in the United States , andshall have declared his intention, according to law, to become a citizenthereof: Provided, That every patent granted by virtue of this act andthe privileges thereto appertaining, shall cease and determine and becomeabsolutely void without resort to any legal process to annul or cancel thesame in case of a failure on the part of any patentee, for the space ofone year from the issuing thereof, to introduce into public use in theUnited States the invention or improvement for which the patent shall beissued; or in case the same for any period of six months after such in-troduction shall not continue to be publicly used and applied in theUnited States, or in case of failure to become a citizen of the UnitedStates , agreeably to notice given at the earliest period within which heshall be entitled to become a citizen of the United States .
, Approved, July 13, 1832.
Chap. CCIY .—An Act to enforce quarantine regulations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That if, in the opinion of theSecretary of the Treasury , the revenue cutters, revenue boats, or revenueVol, IV.—73 3 C
Collection dis-trictofKeyWestextended.
Proviso of 3dsection ofact ofMay 7,1822,ch.62, repealed.
Statute I.July 13, 1832.
Certain ves-sels admitted toentry at Edgar-town.
Statute I.July 13, 1S32.
The privilegesgranted to aliensextended.
Act of April17, 1800, ch.25.
Proviso.
Statute I.July 13, 1832.
[Expired.]Act of May 27,1796, ch. 31.