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 42 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 68, 74. 1846. ..‘ orhedssento C vressionChzm co theCom ,g Gilda;)-gizllyliilliezwe£$£cUiiii;il°States und tie &¢ of .drkonsas,€n {er 44,,,;,5,:, into the Union. Preamble. Whereas the Congress of the United States, by an actlsupplementmy 1836, ch- iw to an act for the admission of the State of Arkansas into the Unrnn, and to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the same, and for other- purposes, approved une twenty-third, eighteen hundred and tgirty-sE<,1n the lgfth proppsition maéiebto tpe State of Arkansas an w ic was su sequent y accep e y the Genera] Assembly bf the State of Arkansas, provided that the two entire townships of land located by virtue of an act of Congress 1827, en. 53. entitled "An act concerning a Seminary of Learning in the Territory of Arkansas," approved the second day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, which, by the first-recited act of Congress, were vested in and confirmed to the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, to be appropriated solely to the use and support of a university in said State: And whereas the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas have, by their resolution, approved December eighteen, eighteen hundred and forty-four, asked for a modification of said compact, to authorize said General Assembly to appropriate said seventy-two sections of land to common school purposes: Therefore- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Asscnmggon. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the assent of gress given to ¤ Congress be, and is hereby, given to the change in said compact ggxgct °:° ma: asked for by the said General Assembly, so as to authorize and emto authoiiac the power the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, and they are EI;?':!;::,::: gg hereby authorized and empowered, to appropriate said seventy-two land ,-0,. school sections of land for the use and benefit of common schools in said p¤rp¤¤•=¤,&¤· State, or in any other mode the said General Assembly may deem proper, for theJp§onéotiorépf education in said State. Arpnovnn, u y 9, 1 6. Jn1y 30, 1g4g_ Cusr. LXXIV. -.41: Act reducing the Dutyon Imports, and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ry the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of December next, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, and on such as may now be exempt from duty, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the goods, wares, and merchandise, herein enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following rates of duty- that is to say: Schedule, ,,,,,,_ On goods, wares, and merchandise, mentioned in schedule A, a duty sifying amount of of 0718 hundred per centum ad valorem. igm °·° b" I"' On goods, wares, and merchandise, mentioned in schedule B, a duty ' of forty per centum ad valorem. On goods, wares, and merchandise, mentioned in schedule C, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem. On goods, wares, and merchandise, mentioned in schedule D, a duty of twentyyfve per centum ad valorem. On goods, wares, and merchandise, mentioned in schedule E, a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem. On goods, wares, and merchandise, mentioned in scnedule F, a duty of _/ijteen per centum ad valorem. On goods, wares, and merchandise, mentioned in schedule G, a duty of ten per centum ad valorem.