Index of bills relatiag to Banks, Currency, Public Debt, and Direct Taxes, &c., presented in the

Title of bill.

An act to refund to the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company certain duties paid upon rail: road iron.

An act to refund certain duties upon railroad iron paid by the New York and Harlem Railroad Company.

An act to remit or refund duties to the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Company upon certain importations of iron made by them for the use of their railroad.

An act to refund to the Newcastle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Railroad Company certain duties paid by them upon iron imported for the construction of their railroad.

An act to exempt from duty the coal which may be on board of steamboats or vessels propelled by steam on their arrival at any port in the United States.

Resolution authorizing the State of Massachusetts to levy and collect a tonnage duty on vessels entering the port of Boston for the purposes therein specified.

A bill to extend the privilege of drawback, and to abolish distinction in ports of entry.

A bill to define the number, compensation, and duties of officers of the customs.

248...

140, 529..

A bill to authorize the cancellation of certain
debenture bonds on the exportation of coal.
A bill to authorize the importation, free of duty,
of the iron materials for certain iron vessels.
A bill to allow a drawback of duties on imported 25
hemp when manufactured into cordage and ex-
ported.

25

25

35

25

An act in addition to an act supplementary to and to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," passed 2d March, 1799, and for other purposes, approved 1st March, 1823.

An act to allow a drawback of duty on imported 25
hemp when manufactured into cordage and
exported.

An act to remit or refund to the Philadelphia, 25
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company
the duties upon certain railroad iron.

An act to authorize the Secretary of Treasury to 25
extend the time for the payment of the duties
upon certain bonds given by the Alabama,
Florida and Georgia Railroad Company, for the
duties upon a quantity of railroad iron imported
by said company, and for the laying of said iron
upon railroads.

26

An act further to prescribe the duties of collectors 25
of the customs and other officers and agents in
the employment of the United States, prohibit-
ing the admission of certain offsets in suits
against the debtors of the Government, and to
provide for the punishment of public defaulters.
A bill to repeal an act to release from duty iron
prepared for and actually laid down on railways
and inclined planes, approved 14th July, 1832,
and to graduate the duty to be paid on such
iron hereafter imported from foreign countries.
A bill to amend an act entitled "An act to remit
duties upon certain goods destroyed by fire at
the conflagration in the city of New York in
December, 1835," passed July 7, 1838.

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A bill to insure the more faithful execution of the 26 laws relating to the collection of duties on imports.

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A bill regulating commercial intercourse with the 27 2
port of Cayenne, in the colony of French Guiana,
and to remit certain duties.

A bill concerning the tonnage duty on Spanish 27
vessels.

A bill supplementary to the act entitled "An act
to modify the act of the 14th of July, 1832, and
all other acts imposing duties on imports."
A bill regulating the payment of expenses accru.
ing in the collection of duties on imports.
A bill to provide revenue from imports, and to
change and modify existing laws imposing duties
on imports, and for other purposes.

288, 289, 292,

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2 Mr. Saltonstall

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2 Mr. Meriwether

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2 Mr. Fillmore........

141,828, 829.
634, 910.

860.....

911, 933, 338, 995,

A bill to extend for a limited period the present 27 2
laws for laying and collecting duties on imports.

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472 Favorable....... Passed July 16, Passed Aug. 5, Vetoed Aug. 9,

1842.

1642.

1842.

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An act to authorize the South Carolina Railroad 28 2......do
Company to import certain pipes and machinery

free of duty.

359, 371, 389, 432,
561, 563, 572,
576.

408, 430, 464, 478,
483,537.