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June 30, 1834.
Chap. CXXIX.—An Act to enable the Secretary of State to purchase the papers and books of General Washington.

Appropriation for papers and books of Washington.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any [money] in the treasury not otherwise appropriated—to enable the Secretary of State to purchase the manuscript papers and a portion of the printed books of General George Washington, the said papers and books to be deposited and preserved in the Department of State; under the regulations the Secretary shall prescribe.

Approved, June 30, 1834.

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June 30, 1834.
Chap. CXXX.—An Act authorizing the President of the United States to cause certain roads to be opened in Arkansas.

Appropriations for
Roads from Helena to the mouth of Cache river;
From Jackson to fort Smith, and
From Strong’s to Batesville.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the President of the United States to cause a road to be opened from Helena, in Arkansas territory, to the mouth of Cache river; also, a road leading from Jackson, in the county of Lawrence, by Liberty and Fayetteville, in the county of Washington, in the aforesaid territory, to fort Smith; And also, That the sum of seven thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of locating and constructing a road from Strong’s (a point on the military road from Memphis to Little Rock,) by Letchfield in Jackson county, to Batesville, in the territory of Arkansas.

Approved, June 30, 1834.

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June 30, 1834.
Chap. CXXXI.—An Act to suspend the operations of certain provisoes of “An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports,” approved the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.

Part of act of July 14, 1832, ch. 227, suspended.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisoes of the tenth and twelfth clauses of the second section of the act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, passed July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same are hereby, suspended until the third day of March next.Secretary of Treasury to report to Congress. And in the mean time, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to inquire, whether it be necessary to except any manufactured articles from the operation and effect of those provisoes, by reason of the difficulty of ascertaining the duties chargeable upon such articles, and that he make report to Congress, at the commencement of the next session.

Approved, June 30, 1834.

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June 30, 1834.
Chap. CXXXII.—An Act for the better organization of the United States’ “marine corps.”[1]
Of what the corps shall consist.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the pas-

  1. Marine Corps. (Notes to act of July 11, 1798, vol. i. p. 594.)
    A brevet field officer of the marine corps is not entitled by law to brevet pay and rations by reason of his commanding a separate post or station, if the force under his command would not entitle a brevet