Statement exhibiting the Number of Vessels, and the Amount of Tonnage entered into, and cleared from the United States, during the year ending 30th September, 1834.

REVENUE LAWS.

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.

[SEC. 1] 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. 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 30th, 1834.]

An Act concerning the duty on Lead.

[SEC 1] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the duty of three cents a pound on lead in pigs, bars, and sheets, shall be considered as extending to all articles manufactured of lead, the value of which does not exceed double that of the raw material of which it is composed, excepting lead manufactured into pipes, and old and scrap lead, which shall pay the same duties as heretofore: Provided, That nothing in this section shall extend to or affect the present duties on red and white lead, shot, sugar of lead, and litharge.

SEC 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the aforesaid section shall be subject to the reductions in duties provided for in the act entitled "An act to modify the act of the fourteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and all other acts, imposing duties on imports," passed second March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. [Approved, June 30th, 1834]

An Act concerning tonnage duly on Spanish vessels. [SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of March next, Spanish vessels coming from the Island of Cuba, or Porto Rico, either directly or after touching at any port or place, shall pay in the ports of the United States such further tonnage duty in addition to the tonnage duty which may be payable under any other law as shall be equivalent to the amount of discriminating duty that would have been imposed on the cargoes imported in the said vessels, respectively, if the same had been exported from the port of Havana in American bottoms.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That before any such vessel shall be permitted to clear out or depart from a port of the United States, with a cargo which shall be directly or indirectly destined to either of the said islands, the said vessel shall pay such further tonnage duty as shall be equivalent to the amount of discriminating duty that would be

payable for the time being upon the cargo if imported into the port of Havana, in an American boɩtom.

SEC 3. And be it further enacted, That no Spanish vessel shall be allowed to clear out or depart from a port of the United States, with any goods, wares, or merchandise, except upon a destination to some port or place in the island of Cuba, or Porto Rico, without giving bond with approved security, in double the value of the vessel and cargo, that the said cargo or any part thereof shall not be landed in either of the said islands; which bond shall be cancelled on producing of certificate from an American consul that the said cargo has been landed elsewhere, bona fide and without intention to re-ship it for a port in one of the said islands.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized from time to time to estimate the said additional tonnage duty, and to give directions to the officers of the customs of the United States, for the collections of such duties so as to conform the same to any variation which may take place in the discriminating duties levied on the cargoes of American vessels in the said port of Havana.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever the President of the United States shall be satisfied, that the discriminating duties in favor of Spanish bottoms levied upon cargoes of American vessels in the ports of Cuba and Porto Rico have been abolished, or whenever in his opinion a satisfactory arrangement upon the subject of the said duties shall have been made between the United States and Spain, the President is hereby authorized to declare the same by proclamation, and thereupon this act shall cease to have any further force or effet.

[Approved, June 30th, 1834.

PUBLICATION OF THE LAWS.

It is made the duty of the Secretary of State, by act of 11th May, 1820, to cause all Resolutions and Laws passed by Congress, (expect such as are of a private nature,) to be published in a number of newspapers, not exceeding one in the District of Columbia, and in not more than three in each State and Territory: all public Treaties are to be published in the same manner, except Indian treaties, which are published in one paper only, and that within the State or Territory to which the subject matter of the treaty belongs. For publishing the laws, resolutions, and treaties, the Proprietors of newspapers receive, by the act of 20th April, 1818, at the rate of one dollar per page (estimated according to the act of 1820) of the pamphlet addition, published by the Secretary of State.

The following are the Newspapers authorized to publish the laws passed at the second session of the twenty-third Congress.

Maine.

New Hampshire Gazette. Portsmouth The Age........ .....Augusta. Democratic Republican...Hayerhill Eastern Argus.................................. ... Portland.

Massachusetts.

Eastern Republican........Bangor. Boston Statesinan..........
..Boston.
New Hampshire.
Pitttsfield Sun............Pittsfield,
New Hampshire Patriot and State Worcester County Republican....
Gazette...
..Concord. Worcester.....

Connecticut.

...

Alabama.

Norwich Republican......Norwich. Democrat.................... Huntsville.
Hartford Times........ Hartford. Flag of the Union......Tuscaloosa.
Columbian Register.... New Haven Mobile Commerc'l Register, Mobile.
Rhode Island.
Mississippi.
Newport Mercury.........Newport. American Standard.......Natchez.
Republican Herald.....Providence. Southern Argus..........Columbus.
Rhode Island Republican..Newport Mississippian..

Louisiana.

...Jackson.

Vermont. Vermont Gazette.......Bennington. Louisiana Courier....New Orleans. Patriot & State Gazette...Montpelier. Louisiana Democrat........Clinton. Vermont Argus... ....................Brandon. Attakapas Gazette..St Martinsville. Tennessee.

New York.

New York Times........ New York. Nashville Republican....Nashville. Albany Argus.................................... Albany. Truth Teller...............Jackson. Rochester Republican....Rochester. Knoxville Register.......Knoxville. Kentucky

New Jersey.

.Frankfort.

West Jersey Observer.. Bridgetown. Frankfort Argus.......
Emporium & True Amer'u .Trenton. Kentucky Gazette........Lexington.
The Jerseyman.........Morristown. Kentucky Republican..Greensburg.

Pennsylvania

Ohio.

Pennsylvania Reporter and Demo-Cincinnati Advertiser....Cincinnati.
cratic Herald........ Harrisburg. Ohio Monitor............Columbus.
American Sentinel.... Philadelphia Warran News-Letter...... Warran.
Alleghany Democrat......Pittsburg.
Indiana.

Delaware.

The Mercury............Lafayette. Delaware Gazette and American Indiana Palladium..Lawrenceburg Watchman...........Wilmington, Indiana Democrat.....Indianapolis Delaware State Journal Wilmington

Maryland

Illinois.

Illinois Journal.......Shawneetown. Eastern Shore Whig and People's Jacksonville News....Jacksonville. Advocate.................Easton. Illinois Advocate.......... Vandalia Baltimore Republican.., Baltimore. Republican Citizen. Fredericktown Farmers' and Mechanics' Advocate, St. Louis........

Missouri.

Virginia. Norfolk Beacon............ Norfolk. Jackson Eagle..............Jackson Virginia Advocate..Charlottesville. Jeffersonian Republican, Jefferson Democratic Republic'n. Morgantown City..

North Carolina.

Arkansas.

The Standard..................................... Raleigh. Arkansas Gazette......Little Rock. North Carolina Sentinel.. Newbern. Helena Herald........ ........ .Helena. North Carolina Journal....Fayetteville...........

South Carolina.

Michigan.

Michigan Sentinel.... ...Monroe. Michigan Statesman.. White Pigeon. Southern Patriot........Charleston. Democratic Free Press......Detroit. Camden Journal...........Camden Mountaineer ..............................Greenville. Floridian Advocate.... Tallahassee. East Florida Herald..St Augustine. Savannah. Pensacola Gazette....... Pensacola.

Georgia.

Georgian......
Georgia Constitutionalist, Augusta.

Florida.

District of Columbia.

...Washington.

Standard of the Union, Milledgeville Globe......