may be put into the custom-house stores, under the bond of the importer or owner; and such of said article as shall remain under the control of the proper officer of the customs on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, shall be subject to no other duty than if the same were imported, respectively, after that day. And if the duties or any part thereof on the articles deposited as aforesaid shall have been paid previous to the said third day of March, the amount so paid shall be refunded to the person importing an depositing the said articles: Provided, That this section shall apply to merchandise in original packages which may have been entered and taken into the possession of the importer or owner; upon condition that the said merchandise be placed under the custody of the proper officer of the customs, and that the same shall remain under his control on the third day of March next: And provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry this section into effect.
Approved, July 14, 1832.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CCXXVIII.—An Act to provide for the extinguishment of the Indian title to lands lying in the states of Missouri and Illinois, and for other purposes.
Appropriation for extinguishment of Indian title to lands in Missouri and Illinois.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of forty-six thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be applied, under the direction of the President, to the extinguishment of the title of the Kickapoos, Shawanees, and Delawares, of Cape Girardeau, to lands lying in the state of Missouri; and of the Piankeshaws, Weas, Peorias, and Kaskaskias, to lands lying in the state of Illinois; and, for the purpose of defraying all the expenses of treating with, removing, and subsisting, said Indians for one year;Annuity to the Shawnees, &c. for an additional compensation to the Shawnee Indians for their reservation at Wapaughkonitta, in Ohio, an annuity of two thousand dollars per annum, for fifteen years; and, also, the sum of three thousand dollars to defray the expenses of procuring the assent of the Menominee Indians, to the treaty between them and the United States, which was provisionally ratified during the present session of Congress.
Legal representatives of John and James Pettigrew.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the legal representatives of John Pettigrew and James Pettigrew, the sum of nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, with interest, at the rate of six per centum, from the month of June, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-four, until the time of payment.
Legatees of A. McKnight.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the legatees of Alexander McKnight the sum of two thousand one hundred and twenty dollars, with interest, at the rate of six per centum, from the month of June, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-four, until the time of payment.
To be paid from the treasury.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That said sums be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 14, 1832.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CCXXIX.—An Act for the erection of barracks, quarters, and store-houses, and the purchase of a site, in the vicinity of New Orleans.
