dollars per annum, to be paid out of the proceeds of the customs; and the clerks, and all other persons, employed in the appraisers' office, shall be appointed by the principal appraisers, and their number and compensation limited and fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all forfeitures incurred under this act, shall be sued for, recovered, and distributed, according to the provisions of the act, entitled "an act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. Provided, That the appraisers and assistant appraisers, shall in no case, receive any proportion of such forfeiture. And provided also, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to remit any such forfeiture whenever he is of opinion that no fraud on the revenue was intended. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Regis- AN ACT relative to the plan of Detroit, in Michigan Be it enacted, &c. That the Governor and Judges of the Territory of Michigan, or any three of them, are required to make a report of the plan of laying out the Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That whenever, in town of Detroit, under, and by virtue of an act, entitled, the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, it may be" An act to provide for the adjustment of titles of land in necessary to carry into full effect the laws for the collec the town of Detroit, and Territory of Michigan, and for tion of the revenue, he may authorize the collector of other purposes," passed the twenty-first April, one thouany district into which goods, wares, or merchandise, sub-sand eight hundred and six; one copy of which shall, on ject to duty, may be imported, to require the owner, or before the first day of January next, be deposited and importer, or consignee of such goods, wares, or mer- recorded in the office of the Secretary of the Territory of chandise, to give bond, in addition to the bond now requir-Michigan, and another copy transmitted to the Secretary ed by law, in a sum not exceeding the value of such mer- of State of the United States, to be by him laid before chandise, that he will produce, or cause to be produced; Congress. within a reasonable time, to be fixed by the said Secretary, such proof as the said Secretary may deem necessary, and as may be in the power of the said owner, importer, or consignee, to obtain, to enable the collector to ascertain the class or description of manufacture or rate of duty, to which such goods, wares, or merchandise, may be justly liable. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirteenth day of September next, all iron, manufactured for rail-roads, shall be liable to the same rate of duty which is now imposed on bar or bolt iron of similar manufacture; and that all scrap iron shall be liable to the same duty that is charged on iron in pigs. Provided, That when it shall be satisfactorily proved to the Secretary of the Treasury, that any of the said iron imported for the purpose of being applied in the construction of any rail road or inclined plane by any State, or incorporated company, has been actually, and permanently laid on any such rail road or inclined plane; that then, and in that case, he may allow to such State, or company, a drawback of the duty on such rail road iron so laid; or, if the duty upon the same shall have been actually paid, he may refund the same. Provided, such drawback or repayment shall not reduce the duty to be paid on such iron below twenty-five per cent. ad valorem, nor upon any less quantity than twenty tons. Approved, May 28, 1830. AN ACT to authorize the Register and Receiver of the St. Helena land district in Louisiana, to receive evidence, and report upon certain claims to land mention ed therein. Be it enacted, &c. That the Register and Receiver of the St. Helena land district, in the State of Louisiana, are hereby authorized and required to receive evidence in support of the claim of John McDonough to a tract of land on the Mississippi river, bounded above by the lands of John D. Bellevire, and below by lands of Madame A. Duplainter, and said to contain about fourteen arpents in front: also, one tract of land, situated on the river Amite, alleged to have been originally granted to Domingo Assaretto by Governor Miro, on the eighteenth February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, containing thirty arpents in front, by forty in depth, under whom the said McDonough claims title. Approved, May 28, 1830. AN ACT to repeal the proviso in "An act to authorize masters of vessels in certain cases to clear out either at the Custom House of Petersburg, or that of Richmond." Be it enacted, &c. That the proviso of an act, passed May twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twentyfour, entitled, "An act to authorize masters of vessels in certain cases to clear out either at the Custom House of Petersburg, or that of Richmond," be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, May 28, 1830. AN ACT to repeal a part of an act, passed the twentysixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, entitled, " An act making provisions for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana Territory, and for other purposes." Be it enacted, &c. That so much of an act, approved the twenty-sixth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four, entitled, “An act making provisions for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana Territory, and for other purposes," as makes it the duty of the Secretary to cause, at least once every year, the books of the offices to be examined, and the balance of public moneys in the hands of the several Receivers of Public Moneys of the said offices to be ascertained, be, and the same is here by, repealed. Approved, May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Captain John Woods. Be it enacted, &c. That, instead of the reservation of six hundred and forty acres, heretofore surveyed in a square, and allowed to the said John Woods, a Cherokee Indian, in the county of Jackson, in the State of Alabama, the said John Woods be, and he is hereby, allowed to take his reservation, of the like quantity of six hundred and forty acres, in the county aforesaid, according to the following metes and bounds, to wit: Beginning at a large poplar, on the State line; thence, South fifteen degrees East, sixty poles, to a stake; thence, South fortyeight degrees East, twenty poles, to a stake; thence, South twenty-seven degrees East, sixty-four poles, to a sourwood; thence, South fifty degrees East, forty-eight poles, to a dog-wood; thence, South sixty-seven degrees East, two hundred and eighty-eight poles, to a white oak; | AN ACT to protect the Surveyors of the Public Lands thence, South seven degrees West fifty-two poles to a large white oak; thence, South forty-one degrees West fifty-five poles, to a large white oak; thence South twenty-four degrees East, twenty poles to a black walnut ; thence, West two hundred and six poles, to a large white oak on the South side of the cove; thence, North fifty nine degrees West, one hundred and four poles, to a hick ory; thence, North twelve degrees West, fifty poles, to a Spanish oak; thence, North thirty-one degrees West, thirty-nine poles, to a stake; thence, North eleven degrees West, eighteen poles, to an elm; thence North thirty degrees West, forty-two poles, to a white oak; thence, North forty-seven degrees West, thirty-six poles to a hamham; thence, North seventy seven degrees West, fourteen poles to a stake above the head of a spring; thence, North forty degrees West, fifty-seven poles, to the edge of the West part of Box's cove, to a small beech; thence, West two hundred and fifteen poles, to a box el der; thence, North seventy poles, to a beech; thence, East one hundred and thirty poles, to a stake, North fifty degrees East, sixty poles, to a white oak at the foot of a rocky bluff; thence, East one hundred and sixty poles, to the beginning; Provided, that nothing contained in this act shall be construed to authorize the removal of any individual who may have settled upon, and may now occupy, any part of the land included within the metes and bounds aforesaid, without the consent of such occupant. of the United States, and to punish persons guilty of interrupting and hindering, by force, Surveyors in the discharge of their duty. Be it enacted, &c. That any person who shall hereaf ter, in any manner, by threats or force, interrupt, binder, or prevent, the surveying of the public lands of the United States, or of any private land claim, which has, or may be confirmed by the United States, or the authority thereof, by the persons authorized to survey the same, in conformity with the instructions of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, or the principal Surveyors in any of the districts, in any State or Territory, shall be considered and adjudged to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction in any District or Circuit Court of the United States, in any State or Territory, having jurisdiction of the same, shall be fined a sum not less than fifty dollars, nor more than three thousand dollars, and be imprisoned for a period of time not less than one nor more than three years. Approved, May 28, 1830. AN ACT relating to the Orphans' Court in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passage of this act, the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the Judge of the Orphans' Court of Alexandria county, in the District of Columbia, in quarterly payments, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, the sum of eight hundred dollars per annum, in lieu of all other compensation for his services as Judge of said Court. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passage of this act, the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the Judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington County, in the District of Columbia, in quarterly payments, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, in lieu of all other compensation for his services as Judge of said Court. Approved, May 29, 1830. AN ACT to vest in the State of Indiana certain lands within the limits of the canal grant. Be it enacted, &c. That there be vested in the State of Indiana twenty-nine thousand five hundred and twentyeight acres and seventy-eight hundredths of the public lands, to be selected by the Canal Commissioners of said State, from the alternate sections reserved to the United States in the division made under "an act to grant a certain quantity of land to the State of Indiana, for the purpose of aiding said State in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Wabash river with those of Lake Erie," approved March second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, which shall be in lieu of the aforesaid quantity heretofore sold by the United States, permanently reserved by treaty to individuals, and located by individual grants before the division aforesaid, and which would otherwise have become the property of the said State in virtue of the act above referred to; the selections aforesaid to be made and reported by the Commissioners to the proper land offices, before the reserved sections aforesaid shall be offered for sale. Approved, May 29, 1830. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, whenever the President of the United States shall be satisfied that forcible opposition has been offered, or will likely be offered, to any Surveyor or Deputy Surveyor, or Assistant Surveyor, in the discharge of his or their duties, in surveying the public lands of the United States, it shall and may be lawful for the President to order the Marshal of the State or District, by himself or deputy, to attend such Surveyor, Deputy, or Assistant Surveyor, with sufficient force to protect such officer in the execution of his duty as Surveyor, to remove force should any be offered. Approved: May 29, 1830. AN ACT to alter and amend the sixty-fifth article of the first section of an act, entitled “ An act for establishing rules and articles for the government of the Armies of the United States," passed the tenth of April, one thouBand eight hundred and six. commanding an army, or a Colonel commanding a sepaBe it enacted, &c. That, whenever a General officer rate department, shall be the accuser or prosecutor of any officer in the Army of the United States, under his command, the General Court Martial for the trial of such officer, shall be appointed by the President of the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proceedings and sentence of the said Court shall be sent directly to the Secretary of War, to be by him laid before the President for his confirmation or approval, or orders in the AN ACT to authorize the selection of certain school lands in the Territory of Arkansas. Be it enacted, &c. That wherever the sixteenth seetions in said Territory, either in whole, or in part, are now, or may hereafter be, included in private claims, held by titles confirmed, or legally decided to be valid and sufficient, other lands equivalent thereto and most convenient to the same, may be selected in lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; and the lands so selected shall be entered in the office of the Register of the land district in which they may lie, and be, by such Register, reported to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, as school lands selected under this act: Provided, That, before making any entry of such other lands, the case shall be made out to the sa Laws of the United States. tisfaction of the Register and Receiver of the said district, AN ACT granting pensions to Samuel H. Phillips, Cord Hazard, and John M'Creary, and to increase the pension of George W. Howard. [21ST CONG. 1ST SESS. AN ACT for the relief of John Hayner. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby directed to place the following named persons on the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury who shall be entitled to and receive pensions according to pay to John Hayner, out of any money not otherwise apthe rates, and commencing at the times hereinafter men-propriated, the sum of one hundred dollars, the value of tioned, that is to say: a horse he lost at the attack on Baltimore during the late war, by reason of being dismounted and separated from him, the said John Hayner serving as a mounted rifleman in cavalry, in a company commanded by H. St. G. Tucker. Approved, May 29, 1830. Cord Hazard, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine; Samuel H. Phillips, at the rate of twenty dollars per mouth, to commence from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; John McCreary, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. George W. Howard, who has been heretofore placed on the invalid pension list, to receive, hereafter, the sum of fourteen dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. AN ACT for the relief of James Fisk. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to James Fisk, of the State of Vermont, late Collector of the Customs for that State, four hundred and fortynine dollars and seventy cents, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated; it being the amount Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the pensions of which the Deputy Collector of the Customs, at Berkabove granted shall be continued to the persons respect-shire, in said State, was robbed of, on the sixth of April, ively, during their respective lives; and that it shall not one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and which be necessary for them to produce an affidavit of continued the said James Fisk has paid into the Treasury of the disability. United States. Approved: May 29, 1830. Approved: May 29, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Blackwell. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they hereby are, authorized and required to settle and adjust the account of Thomas Blackwell, a Captain of the Army of the Revolution, and allow to him five years' full pay; which five years' full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved: May 29, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of the owners of the ship ghany, and their legal representatives. AN ACT for the relief of Ephraim F. Gilbert. Be it enacted, &c. That the Third Auditor of the Treasury Department be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to ascertain the damages and losses sustained by Ephraim F. Gilbert, after the close of his labor in delivering stone for the United States at Fort Niagara, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, under his contract for that purpose, dated the twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of one thousand eight hundred and sixteen; which losses and damages were sustained in prepar ing to deliver a further quantity of stone, under an extension of said contract, in the year one thousand eight hunAlle-dred and eighteen; and the same is to be ascertained on just and equitable principles, so as to indemnify him for his expenditures in making preparations for delivering a further quantity of stone in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and for damages sustained in the particulars mentioned in the report of the Committee of Claims on this subject. And the sum thus ascertained, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to said Gilbert, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved: May 29, 1830. Be it enacted, &c. That there be allowed to the owners of the ship Alleghany, which was captured at Gibraltar, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, while in the service of the United States, and condemned as a prize of war, the sum of sixteen thousand and four hundred dollars; and that the same be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to the said owners, or their legal heirs or representatives. Approved: May 29, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Elisha Ives. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Elisha Ives, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, the value of a boat of his which was captured by the enemy in May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, while said boat was used for transporting munitions of war from Oswego to Sackett's Harbor, the said boat being in said service, under a contract made with Captain Woolsey, and not at the risk of the owner. Approved: May 29, 1830. VOL. VI.-f AN ACT for the relief of John Scott, executor of Charles Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to pay to John Scott, executor of Charles Yates, deceased, interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, upon the specie value of a loan office certificate issued to, and in the name of Edward Watkins, for the sum of five hundred dollars, and numbered eight thousand four hundred and ninety-two, Approved: May 29, 1880. AN ACT to reimburse Lieutenant Daniel Tyler for money advanced by him for the Government of the United States. Be it enacted, &c. That, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, there be paid to Lieutenant Daniel Tyler, of the United States Army, the sum of four hundred and thirty dollars and eleven cents, to reimburse him for so much paid by him for and on ac count of the Government. Approved: May 29, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Roger Enos. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Roger Enos, late Collector of the district of Memphreymagog, in Vermont, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, one hundred and three dollars, being the moiety of the proceeds of a penalty recovered by the said Roger Enos, in the name of the United States, against a certain Josiah Parmelee, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Approved: May 29, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Jeremiah Walker, of the State of Louisiana. Be it enacted, &c. That Jeremiah Walker be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his title to a certain tract of land, situate in the parish of East Feliciana, and State of Louisiana, lying on the Lost Fork of Thompson's Creek; it being the place first settled by Thomas Smith, and transferred by him to Sullivan, by Sullivan to White, and by White to the said Walker; containing not more than six hundred and forty acres: Provided, That this confirmation shall operate as a relinquishment on the part of the United States only. Approved: May 29, 1830. . AN ACT for the relief of Abel Allen. Be it enacted, &c. That the act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the U. States in the Revolutionary war, passed the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, shall be construed to authorize the Secretary of War, to place on the pension list Abel Allen, a soldier in the Revolution ary war, now insane, of the date of the eighteenth of August, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty-nine; and that the receipt of his guardian for the time being, shall be sufficient for the pension allowed by the said act. Approved: May 29, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Major M. M. Payne, of the Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of twelve hundred and seventy-five dollars be paid to Major M. M. Payne, of the United States Army, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, as a re-imbursement for the expenses which he incurred in defending a suit brought against him in the State of South Carolina, to recover from him damages for the performance of an act strictly within the line of his professional duty. AN ACT to provide for surveying certain lands in the Be it enacted, &c. That the Surveyor General of the States of Illinois, Missouri, and Territory of Arkansas, be, and he is hereby authorized to contract for, and pay, at the rate of four dollars per mile, for the surveying of such of the public lands in the Territory of Arkansas, which lie on the rivers, and are so thickly covered with cane, that contracts for executing the surveys thereof, by suitable persons, cannot be made at the existing price: Provided, That said Surveyor General shall certify to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, from time to time, the quantity of land, for the surveying of which, the additional compensation allowed by this act shall be contracted for, and the reasons, in his opinion, requiring the increased allowance. Approved, May 29, 1830. AN ACT to relinquish the reversionary interest of the United States in certain Indian reservations in the State of Alabama. Be it enacted, &c. That all the right, title, and interest, which might accrue or revert to the United States, to the reservations of land now claimed and possessed by Conaleskee, commonly called Challenge, James Ore, and Giles McAnulty and his wife Alice, and William Wilson and his wife Peggy Wilson, under a treaty made and concluded between the United States and the Cherokee tribe of Indians, on the eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen; and all the right, title, and interest which might accrue or revert to the United States, to reservations of land now claimed and possessed by George Stiggins, and Arthur Sizemore, under a treaty made and concluded between the United States and the Creek Indians, at Fort Jackson, on the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, all lying in the State of Alabama, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished, and vested in the said reserves, and their heirs respectively: Provided, That the said Conaleskee, commonly called Challenge, James Ore, Giles McAnulty, and William Wilson, George Stiggins, and Arthur Sizemore, with their respective families, shall remove to their respective tribes west of the Mississippi river, not included in any State or Territory; and that the Government of the United States shall not be chargeable with the expense of their removal or transportation, or with any allowance of land to, or on account of either of them, or their respective families: And provided, also, that no conAN ACT for the relief of Isaiah Townsend, Peter Dox, veyance, or deed of the said lands, or any part of them, shall be valid or effectual, until every such conveyance or and Gerrit Le Grange, sureties of Gerrit L. Dox. Be it enacted, &c. That the Postmaster General be, deed, shall be submitted to one of the District Attorneys and he is hereby, authorized to allow the sum of one thou- for the Districts of Alabama, for his approbation; sand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty and if, after inquiry into the facts and circumstances atcents, together with any interest which may have tending the contracts for the sale of any of the said lands, been charged upon that sum, from the first day of he shall be satisfied that such contracts are fair, and that April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, as a the consideration paid, or agreed to be paid therefor, is credit upon any judgment that may have been re-adequate, he shall endorse his approbation on each con Approved: May 29, 1830. Laws of the United States. veyance and deed so approved; and, thereafter, the same shall be deemed valid and effectual. Approved, May 29, 1830. a [21ST CONG. 1ST SESS. AN ACT for the relief of George Ermatinger. Be it enacted, &c. That the Third Auditor of the Treasury ascertain the value of a horse which belonged fo said George, and was killed at the attack on Fort Stephenson, AN ACT to reduce the duty on molasses and to allow in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, while drawback on spirits distilled from foreign materials. the said George was in the military service of the United Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the thirtieth day States; and when said value shall be so ascertained, on of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, the such proof as the said George may produce, the said auduty on molasses shall be five cents for each gallon, and ditor is directed to make such deduction therefrom of such no more; and from and after that time there shall be sum as he shall ascertain the said George has received for allowed a drawback of four cents upon every gallon of forage after his said horse was killed, and before he obspirits distilled in the United States, or the territories tained another; and when the said Auditor shall report to thereof, from foreign molasses, on the exportation thereof the Secretary of the Treasury the amount due the said to any foreign port or place other than the dominions of George, on account of said loss, the Secretary is directed any foreign State immediately adjoining the United States, to pay to said George the said sum so found to be his due, in the same manner and on the same conditions as before ont of any money in the Treasury not otherwise approthe tariff of May the nineteenth, one thousand eight hun-priated. red and twenty-eight. Approved: May 29, 1830. AN ACT to reduce the duty on Salt. Be it enacted, &c. That the duty on salt be fifteen cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds, from the thirty-first of De cember next, until the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one; and, after that time, ten cents per bushel, and no more. Approved: May 29, 1830. AN ACT to repeal the proviso in the act for the relief of Philip Slaughter, passed the 26th May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the act for the relief of Philip Slaughter, passed the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, as provides, "that the acceptance, by the said Slaughter, of the grant herein made, shall be in lieu of any claim he may have under the provisions of a bill passed at this session of Congress, entitled "An act for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," be, and the same is hereby repealed. Approved: May 29, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Ephraim Whitaker, and John Be it enacted, &c. That the benefits of the provisions of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain sur viving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," passed May the fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, which a Captain in the Army of the Revolution, on the continental establishment, is entitled to receive, be extended to Ephraim Whitaker, of the city of Troy, and John J. Jacobs, of Virginia, in the same manner as if the said Ephraim Whitaker and John J. Jacobs had fully complied with the provisions of the fourth section of the said act; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to pay to them, or their authorized attorneys, respectively, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, such monthly pay as they are respectively entitled to, under the provisions of the said act, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. Approved: May 29, 1830. Approved: May 29, 1830. AN ACT to amend the acts regulating the Commercial Intercourse between the United States and certain Colonies of Great Britain. Be it enacted, &c. That whenever the President of the United States shall receive satisfactory evidence that the Government of Great Britain will open the ports in its colonial possessions in the West Indies, on the continent of South America, the Bahama Islands, the Caicos, and the Bermuda or Somer Islands, to the vessels of the United States, for an indefinite or for a limited term, that the vessels of the United States and their cargoes, on entering the colonial ports aforesaid, shall not be subject to other or higher duties of tonnage or impost, or charges of any other description, than would be imposed on British vessels or their cargoes, arriving in said colonial possessions from the United States; that the vessels of the United States may import into the said colonial possessions from the United States any article or articles which could be imported in a British vessel into the said possessions from the United States; and that the vessels of the United States may export from the British colonies aforementioned, to any country whatever, other than the dominions or possessions of Great Britain, any article or articles that can be exported therefrom in a British vessel, to any country other than the British dominions or possessions as aforesaid; leaving the commercial intercourse of the United States, with all other parts of the British dominions or possessions, on a footing not less favorable to the United States than it now is, and that then, and in such case, the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized, at any time before the next session of Congress, to issue his proclamation, declaring that he has received such evidence; and, thereupon, from the date of such proclamation, the ports of the United States shall be opened, indefinitely, or for a term fixed, as the case may be, to British vessels coming from the said British colonial possessions, and their cargoes; subject to no other or higher duty of tonnage or impost, or charge of any description whatever, than would be levied on the vessels of the United States, or their cargoes, arriv ing from the said British possessions; and it shall be lawful for the said British vessels to import into the United States, and to export therefrom, any article or articles which may be imported or exported in vessels AN ACT for the settlement of the accounts of Samuel of the United States; and the act, entitled "Au act con cerning navigation," passed on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; an act supplementary thereto, passed the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; and an act, entitled "An act to regulate the commercial intercourse between the United States and certain British ports," passed on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, are, in |