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the Secretary of War to the survey of the most eligible route for a railroad from the town of Milwaukee, on lake Michigan, to such point on the Mississippi river as may be deemed most expedient.

, March 3, 1839.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second section of “,” approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

, March 3, 1839.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be refunded, out of the Treasury, to such umbrella-makers as have imported umbrella-stretchers since the passage of the act entitled “,” approved the fourteenth day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two, all excess of duty, beyond what such importers would have been required to pay, if the provisoes contained in the tenth and twelfth clauses of the second section of said act had at all times since its passage been suspended in their operation in the same manner as they were suspended by the act of the second of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-three, entitled “,” and by other subsequent acts of like character.

, March 3, 1839.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be and he hereby is authorized and required to purchase certain lands situated within the limits of the navy yard in Charlestown, in the