TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 221. 1832.

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American vessels in the ports of Spain previous to the twentieth October,one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That vessels owned wholly bySpanish subjects, coming from any of the colonies of Spain , eitherdirectly or after touching at any other port or place, shall pay, in the portsof the United States , the same rate of duty on tonnage that shall belevied on American vessels in the Spanish colonial port from whencesuch Spanish vessel shall have last departed; the said amount to be as-certained by . the Secretary of the Treasury, who is hereby authorized,from time to time, to give directions to the officers of the customs of theUnited States for the collection of such duties, so as to conform the saidduties to any variation that may take place in the duties levied on Ameri-can vessels in such Spanish ports.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever the President shallbe satisfied that the discriminating or countervailing duties of tonnagelevied by any foreign nation on the ships or vessels of the United States shall have been abolished, he may direct that the tonnage duty on thevessels of such nation shall cease to be levied in the ports of the UnitedStates ; and cause any duties of tonnage that may have been levied onthe vessels of such foreign nation, subsequent to the abolition of its dis-criminating duties of tonnage, to be refunded.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the second and third sectionsof this act shall be in force and take effect from and after the first dayof January next.

Approved, July 13,1832.

Chap. CCXXI .—An Act to increase and improve the law department of thelibrary of Congress.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty ofthe librarian to prepare an apartment near to, and connected by an easycommunication with that in which the library of Congress is now kept,for the purpose of a law library; to remove the law books, now in thelibrary, into such apartment; and to take charge of the law library, inthe same manner as he is now required to do of the library of Congress.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the justices of the SupremeCourt of the United States shall have free access to the said law library;and they are, hereby, authorized and empowered to make such rules andregulations for the use of the same, by themselves and the attorneys andcounsellors, during the sittings of the said court, as they shall deem pro-per : Provided, Such rules and regulations shall not restrict the Presidentof the United States, the Vice President, or any member of the Senate or House of Representatives , from having access to the said library, orusing the books therein, in the same manner that he now has, or mayhave, to use the books of the library of Congress.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the law library shall be apart of the library of Congress, subject to the same regulations, exceptsuch alterations as are herein provided for, as now are, or hereafter shallbe established for the library of Congress; and the incidental expensesof the law library shall be paid out of the appropriations for the libraryof Congress.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be, and hereby is,appropriated, for the present year, a sum not exceeding five thousanddollars, and a further annual sum of one thousand dollars, for the periodof five years, to be expended in the purchase of law books; and that thelibrarian shall make the purchases of the books for the law library, undersuch directions, and pursuant to such catalogue, as shall be furnishedhim by the chief justice of the United States .

Approved, July 14, 1832.

Spanish colo-nial vessels topay same ton-nage duty asAmerican ves-sels in Spanish colonial ports.

The President,in case anyforeign nationshall abolishdis-criminating ton-nage duties onAmer. vessels,may direct du-ties on vesselsof such nationto cease, &c.

2d and 3d sec-tions to take ef*feet Jan. 1,1833.

Statute I.July 14, 1832.

Librarian to pre-pare an apart-ment for a lawlibrary, &c.

Justices of theSupreme Court to have access,and make rulesand regulations.

Proviso.

Law library tobe part of libra-ry of Congress,&c.

Incidental ex-penses.

Appropriations.