AN ACT for the relief of Joseph Shaw. from the twentieth day of March, in the year one thou Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War be, and he sand eight hundred and sixteen, be henceforth held, and hereby is, directed to cause Joseph Shaw, a Revolutionary taken to have been, and to be, a security only for the pay Pensioner of the United States, to be paid at the rate of ment, to the United States, of the sum of nine hundred eight dollars per month, from the tenth day of April, one and fifty-four dollars and eighty-three cents, with interest thousand eight hundred and eighteen, (the date of his first thereon from the first day of January, one thousand eight declaration under the act, entitled, "An act to provide for hundred and nineteen, and the costs of said judgment; certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of and, also, as security for all such sums of money as may the United States in the Revolutionary War," approved rightfully, hereafter, be paid at the Treasury, in discharge the eighteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and of balances due the fourth regiment of Virginia militia, to eighteen,) up to the eleventh day of October, one thousand pay which the funds were placed in the hands of William eight hundred and twenty-seven, the day on which his Estes, paymaster to that regiment, and for whose default pension was allowed to commence under the regulations the judgment aforesaid was rendered against the defendof the Department of War. ants as his sureties. Approved, May 28, 1830. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, whensoever any payment or payments shall hereafter be made by the AN ACT for the relief of the heirs of Baptiste Le-Treasury Department which ought to have been made Gendre. Be it enacted, &c. That the heirs of Baptiste Le-Gendre be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their claim to six arpents of land in front, by forty in depth, situated on the river Mississippi, in the parish of West Baton Rouge, and bounded above by lands of Jean Baptiste Tuillier, and below by land of Ivon Le-Gendre; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon being presented with a plat and survey of the said land, regularly made by competent authority, shall issue to the petitioners a patent therefor: Provided, That this act shall amount only to a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and shall, in no manner, affect the rights of third persons, or claims derived from the U. States by donation or purchase. Approved, May 28, 1830. by the said William Estes, out of the money placed in his hands for the payment of balances due the fourth regiment Virginia militia, of which he was paymaster, that the United States shall and may, from time to time, have writs of scire facias, on the judgment aforesaid, against the defendants, their executors, or administrators, to have execution for the sums so paid, with interest from the times of payment until the whole amount of said judgment shall be levied and paid. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted. That, whatever demand of payment shall hereafter be made at the Treasury Department, by any of those who were entitled to be paid out of the funds so held by William Estes, payment of such demand shall be suspended, until notice thereof be given to the defendants, or such of them as may afterwards be proceeded against, and time allowed to investigate the justice of the claim at the said Department, and not elsewhere. Approved, May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Judah Alden. AN ACT for the relief of Francois Isidore Tuiller. Be it enacted, &c. That Francois Isidore Tuillier be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his claim to a tract of land of six arpents in front, by forty in depth, situated on the river Mississippi, in the parish of West Baton Rouge, and State of Louisiana, bounded above by lands of Joseph he is hereby authorized and directed, to issue a duplicate Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War be, and Grand, and below by lands of J. Charles Tuillier, and military bounty land warrant to Judah Alden, a Captain containing two hundred and forty superficial arpents equal in the second Massachusetts regiment, in the army of the to two hundred and two acres and forty-two one-hundredths; and that the Commissioner of the General Land Revolution, for three hundred acres of land; the original Office, upon the presentation of a plat and survey of the warrant, number twelve, having been lost or mislaid. same, regularly made by competent authority, shall issue Approved, May 28, 1830. a patent therefor, to the said Francois Isidore Tuillier : Provided, That this act shall amount only to a relinquish ment on the part of the United States, and shall not affect, in any manner, the rights of third persons, or claims derived from the United States by donation or purchase. Approved, May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Peter Gasney. Be it enacted, &c. That the Sepretary of the Treasury pay out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty dollars, to Peter Gasney, a mounted volunteer soldier in the campaign under Gov. Shelby, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for the loss of his horee, in consequence of his having been dismounted and separated from him. Approved, May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of John Cooper, William Saunders and William R. Porter. Be it enacted, &c. That a judgment obtained by the United States against John Cooper, William Saunders, and William R. Porter, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the fifth Circuit and Virginia district, on the fifth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hun dred and twenty-four, for the sum of five thousand and thirty dollars and seventy-one cents, with interest AN ACT for the relief of the heirs or legal represent atives of Joseph Falconer, deceased. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be authorized to audit and settle the claim of Joseph Falconer, an officer of be Revolution, formerly of Philadelphia, deceased, on account of two several loan office certificates, issued April twentyfirst, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, to and in the name of John Cox; namely, one for the sum of one thousand dollars, and numbered thirty-five, and one for the sum of six hundred dollars, and numbered two thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven; and to ascertain the true specie value of the same, exclusive of interest, which cer tificates are alleged to have been lost, and appear by the books of the Treasury to be outstanding and unpaid, and that the amount so ascertained as aforesaid, be paid to the heirs or legal representatives of the said Joseph Falconer, or either of them, duly authorised and empowered to receive the same, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the person or persons receiving the amount aforesaid, shall first execute, and deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond of indemnity in double the amount of the sum to be paid, with sufficient security, as the said Comptroller shall di rect and approve. Approved, May 28, 1880. Laws of the United States. AN ACT for the relief Wilkins Tannehill. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Wilkins Tannehill, the sum of four hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty cents, the amount of two accounts, one in favor of Erasmus Chapman, and the other in favor of Robert H. Boon, for services performed for the United States, during the late war, with their teams and wagons, of which the said Tannehill is the owner by assignment. Approved: May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of John H. Wendal, a Captain in the Revolutionary War. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of John H. Wendal upon the list of Revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of forty dollars a month, during his naturul life. Approved: May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of [21ST CONG. 1ST SESS AN ACT to confirm certain claims to lands in the District of Jackson Court House, in the State of Missiasippi. Be it enacted, &c. That all the claims to lands reported by the Register and Receiver of the Land Office for the District of Jackson Court House, in the State of Mississippi, under the provisions of the act of Congress, approved on the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, entitled "An act supplementary to the several acts providing for the adjustment of land claims in the State of Mississippi," as founded on any order of survey, requette, permission to settle, or other written evidence of claim derived from the Spanish authorities, which ought, in the opinion of the said Register and Receiver, to be confirmed, and which, by the Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accountin; officer said reports, appear to be derived from the Spanish Goof the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized aud requir-vernment prior to the twentieth of December, one thoued to pay to the legal representatives of James Davenport, sand eight hundred and three, and the land claimed to deceased, late an invalid pensioner of the U. States, out of have been cultivated and inhabited on or before that day, any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, shall be confirmed in the same manner as if the title bad the pension allowed to the said James Davenport, from been completed: Provided, That, in all such claims, the fourth of September, eighteen hundred and eighteen, where the plat and certificate of survey, made prior to the when he received his last payment, until the time of his fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, under the authority of the Spanish Government, in pursuance of such claim, has not been filed with the said Register and Receiver, such claim shall not be con-. firmed to any one person for more than twelve hundred and eighty acres; and that for all the other claims comprised in the reports as aforesaid, and which ought, in the opinion of the Register and Receiver, to be confirmed, the claimant to such land shall be entitled to a grant therefor, as a donation, not to exceed twelve hundred and eighty acres to any one person: And provided also, That the claim of the representatives of Louis Boisdore, numbered four, in report numbered three, shall not be confirmed to more than twelve hundred and eighty acres ; and all the confirmations of the said incomplete titles and grants of donations, hereby provided to be made, shall amount only to a relinquishment forever, on the part of the United States, of any claim whatever to the tract of land so confirmed or granted, without prejudice to the interests of third persons. death. Approved: May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of the heirs of Jean Marie Trahaud, deceased. Be it enacted, &c., That the heirs of Jean Marie Traband, deceased, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed in their claim to six arpents front by forty in depth, on the river Mississippi, in the parish of West Baton Rouge, bounded above by Joseph Tuillier, and below by lands of Baptiste Guedry. The same to be located agreeably to a plot of survey made by Ephraim Davidson, by order of the Surveyor of the lands of the United States, on the ninth day of March, one thousand eihgt hundred and six, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office upon a survey of the same as aforesaid, duly executed by competent authority, shall issue a patent therefor: Provided, That this act shall only amount to a relinquishment of the right of the United States, and shall, in no manner, affect the right of third persons, or claims derived from the United States by purchase or donation. Approved: May 28, 1830. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person, or his or her legal representatives, whose claim is embraced by the said Register and Receiver, in their reports, numbers five, six, and seven, of actual settlers, or their legal AN ACT for the relief of Michael Lewis. representatives, not having any written evidence of claim, Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, where it appears by the said reports that the land be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to claimed or settled on had been actually inhabited and culMichael Lewis, or his legal representatives, out of any tivated by such person, or persons, in whose right the same money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the is claimed, on or before the fifteenth day of April, one sum of three hundred and eighty dollars, as a compensa-thousand eight hundred and thirteen, be entitled to a grant tion in full for his services as pilot on board the U. States for the land so claimed or settled on, as a donation: Proschooner Vixen, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and subsequent detention as a prisoner of war. Approved: May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Alexander Fridge. Be it enacted, &c. That Alexander Fridge be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his claim to six hundred and forty acres of land, on which he now resides, in the parish of East Baton Rouge, in the State of Louisiana, as a donation; and the Commissioners of the General Land Office, upon the presentation of a plat and survey of said land, vided, That not more than one tract shall be granted to any one person, and the same shall not exceed six hundred and forty acres, to include his or her improvements, and to be bounded by sectional or divisional lines; and that no lands shall be thus granted, which are claimed or recognized by the preceding section. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every person, or his or her legal representatives, comprised in the aforesaid reports of actual settlers, not having any written evidence of claim, who, on the third day of March, ope thousand eight hundred and nineteen, did, as appears by those reports, actually inhabit and cultivate a tract of AN ACT for the relief of John Moffitt. land in said district, not claimed under any written evi-dred dollars, and of the Western District of Pennsylvanis dence of title legally derived from the French, British, or one thousand eight hundred dollars; to be paid at the Spanish Governments, or granted as a donation, shall be Treasury of the United States, in quarterly payments. entitled to become the purchaser of the quarter section, Approved: May 29, 1830. or two-eighths of any section on which the improvements may be, and including the same, at the same price for which other public lands are sold at private sale: Provided, That the same shall be entered with the Register of the Land Office, within the term of two years, or before, if the same shall be offered at public sale: And provided, also, That, where any such person is settled on, and has improved any school lands, in said district, such person shall be governed by the provisions of the fourth section of the act, approved on the twenty-second day of April, oue thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, entitled "An act giving the right of pre-emption, in the purchase of lands, to certain settlers in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, and Territory of Florida." Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle and ascertain the value of a Continental Land Office certificate, number one hundred and four, issued in favor of John Moffitt, by the Commissioner of Loans of the State of South Carolina; and that the sum found to be due on the said certificate (exclusive of interest) be paid to the said Moffitt, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved: May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Alexander Montgomery, John H. Watts, and the administrators of John Wilson, deceased. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Register and Receiver of the said district shall possess the same powers, and perform the same duties, in relation to the claims confirmed by this act, as are given to, and required of them, by the Act of Congress of the eighth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, entitled "An act, supplementary to the several acts for adjusting the claims and titles to lands, and establishing Land Offices, in the dis-fore issued in his favor, for East half of the North-east trict East of the Island of New Orleans.” Approved: May 28, 1880. AN ACT increasing the Terms of the Judicial Courts of the United States for the Southern District of New York, and adding to the compensation of several District Judges of the United States. Be it enacted, &c. That John H. Watts, of the State of Alabama, be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such manner as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, the patent hereto quarter of section twenty-one, in township ten, of range twelve, in the Cahaba district; and, upon the execution of such relinquishment, the moneys heretofore paid upon the said East half of the North-east quarter, shall be applied to the payment of the West half of the same quarter, and the said Commissioner shall cause a patent to be granted therefor. Be it enacted, &c. That hereafter there shall be held Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, whenever Alexmonthly, in the city of New York, a Session of the Dis-ander Montgomery, of the State of Ohio, shall produce trict Court of the United States for the Southern District to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, satisfacof New York, to commence on the first Tuesday of each tory evidence that he has paid to the United States the month, and be held in the manner now provided by law sum of one hundred and fifty-four dollars and seventy for holding the stated terms of the said Court. seven cents, on account of the Southwest quarter of section twenty, in township seventeen, of range eighteen, in the Chilicothe Land district, the said Commissioner be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause a patent to be is sued for the sume, in favor of the said Alexander Montgomery. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, hereafter, there shall be held, annually, in the city of New York, two ad ditional Sessions of the Circuit Court of the U. States, for the said district, for the trial of criminal causes, and suits in equity, to commence on the last Monday in February, and the last Monday of July: And further, That the said Court may, at its discretion, direct Special Sessions thereof to be held in the said city, for the trial of criminal causes or suits in equity: which said additional and special sessions may be held by the said District Judge alone. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the administrator and administratix of the estate of John Wilson, of Ohio, be, and they are hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, the West half of Southwest quarter of section thirteen, in township seven, of range twelve, in the Chillicothe Land District, and apply the amount beretoSec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, hereafter, the fore paid thereon towards the payment of the East half of District Judge for the Southern District of New York the same quarter; and upon payment in full being made shall reside in the city of New York; and there shall be for the said East half in cash, at a discount of thirtyallowed the said Judge the yearly compensation of thirty-seven and a half per cent. the Commissioner of the Gefive hundred dollars, to be paid at the Treasury of the neral Land Office shall cause a patent to be issued for that United States, in quarterly payments; to the Judge of the Northern District of New York the sum of two thousand dollars, and to the Judge for the District of Connecticut one thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, hereafter, there shall be allowed the District Judges of the United States tract. Approved: May 28, 1830.j AN ACT for the relief of William Tipton. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officer for the Districts of Massachusetts, South Carolina, Geor- of the Treasury Department be, and he is hereby, autho gia, Alabama, and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, rized and required to pay to William Tipton, the sum of each, the yearly compensation of two thousand five hun- one thousand one hundred and forty dollars, out of any dred dollars; and to the District Judges of the following money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; that Districts, respectively, the yearly compensation follow-sum being the amount of the arrears of pension due him ing to the District Judge of North Carolina two thou- from the United States, as an invalid pensioner, from sand dollars, of Maine one thousand eight hundred dol- the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred lars, of Rhode Island one thousand five hundred dollars, and eighty-four, at which time the payment of his penof Delaware one thousand five hundred dollars, of Mary- sion ceased, until the first day of January, one thousand land two thousand dollars, of New Jersey one thousand eight hundred and three, when he was restored to the penfive hundred dollars, of Vermont one thousand two hun- sion roll. Approved: May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of General Simon Kenton. AN ACT for the relief of Stephen Olney. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War be, and is Be it enacted, &c. That the benefits of the provisions of hereby, authorized and required to place General Simon the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Kenton upon the list of Revolutionary pensioners, and to officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," passed pay him at the rate of twenty dollars a month, to com- May the fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twentymence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hun-eight, be extended to Stephen Olney, of Rhode Island, a dred and twenty-nine. captain in the Army of the Revolution, and that he be paid and accounted with in the same manner as if he had already, at any time heretofore, since the passage of said act, complied with all the requisitions of the fourth section thereof; to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the pension aforesaid shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in the same manner that other pensions are now paid. Approved: May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Alexander Claxton. Be it enacted, &c. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Navy, to pay to the person or persons who may be legally entitled to receive the same, or who may have legally paid the same, the taxable costs decreed to be paid by Alexander Claxton, a Master Commandant in the Navy of the United States, in the suit prosecuted by him against the English merchant ship James Mitchell, in the Superior Court of the District of East Florida; and that a sum not exceeding five thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-eight cents be, and the same hereby is appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to audit and allow the accounts of the said Alexander Claxton, for his reasonable expenses, incurred by him in and about the prosecution of his claim for salvage against the English merchant ship James Mitchell, in the Superior Court of the District of East Florida, so as that said expenses shall not exceed eight hundred and sventy-two dollars and seventy-five cents; and that the amount of the said expenses, when ascertained, be paid to the said Alexander Claxton, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 28, 1830. Approved: May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Wallace Robinson. Be it enacted, &c. That Wallace Robinson be, and he is hereby authorized to surrender to the Register of the Land Office at St. Stephen's, Alabama, the patent which issued to him on the twentieth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, for the west half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-nine, in township seventeen, of range one east, in the district east of Pearl river, in said State; and that the said Wallace Robinson be authorized, in lieu thereof, to enter with said Register the west half of the southwest quarter of section twentynine, in township seventeen, of range two east, in the same district, for which a patent shall issue: Provided, That the said last named half quarter section shall remain unsold and unappropriated, and that the said Wallace Robinson shall, at the time of surrendering said patent for the first named half-quarter section, file therewith a release of all title to the same. Approved: May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Ann Brashears, of Mississippi. Be it enacted, &c. That upon a return of a plat and certificate of survey, legally made, to the General Land Office, a patent shall be issued to Ann Brashears, for four hundred and eighty arpents of land, in the county of Claiborne and State of Mississippi, on the north side of the north fork of Bayou Pierre, being the residue of a AN ACT for the relief of Jacob Wilderman. tract of eight hundred arpents surveyed for her under the Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers of Spanish Government, by one William Thomas, then Dethe Treasury Department cause to be paid to Jacob Wil-puty Surveyor for William Vausdan, Surveyor, after dederman, of the State of Illinois, the sum of two hundred ducting therefrom the quantity of three hundred and and forty dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not twenty arpents, which has been confirmed to one Richard otherwise appropriated, in full for the balance of his pay as Sparks; which survey of eight hundred arpents included a Mounted Ranger, in the Company of Captain Short, from the place called the White Lick Ground, and a camp near the sixteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and the centre thereof, in which one Benjamin Foy once refifteen. sided; Provided, however, that such patent shall convey such title only as the United States now may have to it, and shall not include any land to which any other person has a legal title; and shall not be issued until satisfactory evidence be laid before the Commissioner of the General Land Office, that it does not include any land to which any other person sets up a legal title. Approved: May 28, 1830. Approved, May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of the heirs of John Tuillier, deceased. AN ACT for the relief of Vincent de Rivafinoli, and others. Be it enacted, &c.. That the heirs of John Tuillier, deceased, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their claim to a tract of land situated on the West bank of the river Mississippi, in the parish of West Baton Rouge, containing six arpents in front by forty in depth, and bounded above by lands of Francois I. Tuillier, and below by lands Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of State be, and of Joseph Trahan; said tract of land to be located accord- he is hereby, authorized and required to issue letters paing to a plat of survey made by Ephraim Davidson, on tent, in the usual form, to Vincent de Rivafinoli, for himthe sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and self, and as attorney in fact for Charles Harsleben and six; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office is William Davis, of the kingdom of Great Britain, as joint hereby required, upon the presentation and return of a inventors of a machine for facilitating the washing of survey of said land, so made by competent authority, to ores and alluvial soils, and the extraction of metallic subissue a patent therefor: Provided, That this act shall stances and precious stones from ores, earth, sand, or amount only to a relinquishment on the part of the United other matter in which they may be found, upon his makStates, and shall in no manner affect the rights of third ing oath that he verily believes that he, and the said persons, or claims derived from the United States by pur-Charles Harsleben and William Davis, are the true joint chase or donation. Approved: May 28, 1830. inventors and discoverers of the said machine, and upon his complying with all the provisions of the several acts of Congress relative to the issuing of letters patent for AN ACT for the relief of Abraham Brownson. Be it enacted, &c. That the provisions of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved fifteenth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, be, and they are hereby, declared to be, applicable to the case of Abraham Brownson, who enlisted in the regiment commanded by Colonel Seth Warner, in the Revolutionary war; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to extend the benefit of the said act to him, any thing contained in the same to the contrary nothwithstanding. Approved: May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the more effectual collection of the impost duties. Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is hereby authorized to appoint an additional appraiser of merchandise for the port of New York, who shall take a similar oath, and have like power and compensation, and perform the same duties with the appraisers now authorised by law to be appointed at that place. they, or a majority of them, shall have agreed, they shall report the result to the collector, and if their appraisements shall not agree with that of the United States' appraisers, the collector shall decide between them. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the collectors of the customs shall cause at least one package out of every invoice, and one package at least out of every twenty packages of each invoice, and a greater number should he deem it necessary, of goods imported into the respective districts, which package or packages he shall have first designated on the invoice, to be opened and examined, and if the same be found not to correspond with the invoice, or to be falsely charged in such invoice, the collector shall order, forthwith, all the goods contained in the same entry to be inspected; and if such goods be subject to ad valorem duty, the same shall be appraised, and if any paekage shall be found to contain any article not described in the invoice, or if such package or invoice be made up with intent, by a false valuation, or extension or otherwise, to evade or defraud the revenue, the same shall be forfeited, and the fifteenth section of the "act supplementary to an act to amend an act entitled 'an act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, passed second March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes," passed first March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three; and also so much of any act of Congress as imposes an additional duty or penalty of fifty per centum on duties upon any goods which may be appraised at Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary twenty-five per centum, or ten per centum, above their of the Treasury may appoint, not exceeding four assistant invoice price, is hereby repealed; and no goods liable appraisers in New York, two in Philadelphia, and two in to be inspected or appraised as aforesaid, shall be deBoston, who shall be practically acquainted with the livered from the custody of the officers of the customs, quality and value of some one or more of the chief arti- until the same shall have been inspected or appraised, or cles of importation, subject to appraisement, to be em- until the packages sent to be inspected or appraised, shall ployed in appraising goods in such manner as shall be be found correctly and fairly invoiced and put up, and so directed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and who shall reported to the collector. Provided, That the collector take and subscribe an oath diligently and faithfully to ex-may, at the request of the owner, importer, consignee, amine and inspect such goods, wares, or merchandise, as or agent, take bonds, with approved security, in double the principal appraisers may direct, and truly to report to the estimated value of such goods, conditioned that they them, to the best of their knowledge and belief, the true shall be delivered to the order of the collector, at any value thereof, according to law; whereupon the principal time within ten days after the package or packages, sent appraisers shall revise and correct the same as they may to the public stores shall have been appraised and reportjudge proper, and report to the collector their decision ed to the collector. And if, in the mean time, any of thereon; but, if the collector shall deem any appraisement the said packages shall be opened, without the consent of goods too low, he shall have power to order a re-ap- of the collector or surveyor, given in writing, and then praisement, either by the principal appraisers, or by three merchants designated by him for that purpose, who shall be citizens of the United States, and cause the duties to be charged accordingly. in the presence of one of the inspectors of the customs, or if the said package or packages shall not be delivered to the order of the collector, according to the condition of the said bond, the bond shall, in either case, be forfeited. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the thirtieth day of September next, whenever goods Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the of which wool or cotton is a component part, of similar duty of the collector to cause all goods entered for rekind, but different quality, are found in the same package, exportation, with the right of drawback, to be inspected, if not imported from beyond the Cape of Good Hope, it and the articles thereof compared with their respective shall be the duty of the appraisers to adopt the value of invoices, before a permit shall be given for landing the the best article contained in such package as the average same; and where the goods so entered shall be found value of the whole; and if the owner, importer, or con-not to agree with the entry, they shall be forfeited; and signee, or agent for any goods appraised, shall consider every importer, owner, consignee, agent, or exporter any appraisement made by the appraisers, or other per- who shall enter goods for importation, or for exportation, sons designated by the collector, too high, he may apply or transportation from one port or place to another, with to the collector, in writing, stating the reasons for his opinion, and having made oath that the said appraisement is higher than the actual cost and proper charges on which duty is to be charged, and also, that he verily be lieves it is higher than the current value of the said goods, including said charges, at the place of exportation, the collector shall designate one merchant, skilled in the value of such goods, and the owner, importer, consignee, or agent, may designate another, both of whom shall be citizens of the United States, who, if they cannot agree in an appraisement, may designate an umpire, who shall also be a citizen of the United States, and when the right of drawback, shall deposite with the collector the original invoice of such goods, if not before deposited with the collector, and in that case an authenticated invoice thereof, to be filed and preserved by him in the archives of the custom-house, which shall be signed by such importer, owner, consignee, agent, or exporter, and the oath to be made on the entry of such goods as shall be annexed thereto. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Assistant Appraisers at New York shall receive a compensation of fifteen hundred dollars per annum; and those at Boston and Philadelphia, a compensation of twelve hundred |