TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 63, 64. 1833.
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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, so much of the act to alterand amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, passed July thefourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, as repeals the duties hereto-fore levied on copper bottoms cut round, and copper bottoms raised tothe edge, and still bottoms cut round and turned upon the edge, and partsthereof, and on copper plates or sheets, weighing more than thirty-fourounces per square foot, commonly called braziers’ copper, and on tobaccoleaves, or unmanufactured, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing contained in the actof the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to alter andamend the several acts imposing duties on imports, shall be so construedas to authorize the exemption, from the payment of duty on sheet androlled brass, but the same shall be charged with the payment of a dutyof twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
Chap. LXIII .—An Act making appropriations for the erection of certain fortifica-tions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, andthe same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury nototherwise appropriated, namely:
For a fort on Throg’s Neck, East river, New York , twenty-five thou-sand dollars.
For rebuilding fort Delaware, Delaware river , fifty thousand dollars.
For a fort on Foster’s Bank, Pensacola harbour, Florida , twenty-fivethousand dollars.
For a fort on Grande Terre, Barataria, Louisiana , twenty-five thousanddollars.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
Chap. LXIY .—An Act for improving the navigation of certain rivers in the terri-tories of Florida and Michigan , and for surveys, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That, for the purpose of remov-ing obstructions, and improving the navigation of certain rivers in theterritories of Florida and Michigan , the following sums be, and they arehereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury; to beexpended under the direction of the President of the United States .
For removing obstructions in, and improving the navigation of, theEscambia river, five thousand dollars.
For improving the navigation of the Ochlochney river, five thousanddollars.
For improving the navigation of the Choctawhachie river, as recom-mended by the Postmaster General, for the transportation of the mailfrom Pensacola to Tallahassee , five thousand dollars.
For improving the harbour at Chicago on lake Michigan , twenty-fivethousand dollars.
For a survey of White and Saint Francis rivers, in the territory ofArkansas , five hundred dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
Repeal of du-ties on copperbottoms, &c. re-pealed.
Duty on sheetand rolled brass.