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Stat. at Large, CHAP. VII.—An Act to establish the District of Bristol, and to annex the Towns of Vol. II. p. 101. Kittery and Berwick to the District of Portsmouth.

District of Bris

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the towns of Bristol, Warren and Bartol established. rington, in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and all the shores and waters around the same, within the following limits, viz. a line beginning at the middle of the bay, between Mount Hope and Common Fence Point, running southwesterly through the middle of Bristol Ferry, and continuing such course until it strikes a point of equal distance from Rhode Island to Prudence Island, from thence northwardly on a straight line to the westernmost part of Nahant Point, and from thence to the western shore of Bullock's Point, shall be a district, to be called the district of Bristol, of which the port of Bristol shall be the sole port of entry, and a collector for said district shall be appointed to reside at Bristol, and Warren and Barrington shall be ports of delivery only, and a surveyor shall be appointed to reside at each of the ports of Bristol and Warren; and the surveyor at Warren shall also be surveyor for the port of Barrington.

Collector to

reside at Bristol.

1799, ch. 22, sec. 3.

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SEC. 2. That said port of Bristol shall also be a port of entry, for all ships or vessels arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, or places beyond the same.

SEC. 3. That the towns of Kittery and Berwick, in the State of Massachusetts, shall be annexed to the district of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, as ports of delivery only: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the master or commander of any ship or vessel, having merchandise on board, destined for either of the said places, from making entry at his option, with the collector of the district of York, and obtaining permits for the delivery thereof as heretofore.

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Stat. at Large, Vol. II. p. 103.

Goods imported into Baltimore or Philadelphia may be transported by Appoquinimink and Sassafras rivers.

CHAP. XIII. -An Act to allow the Transportation of Goods, Wares and Merchandise, to and from Philadelphia and Baltimore, by the Way of Appoquinimink and Sassafras. Be it enacted, &c. That any goods, wares and merchandise, which lawfully might be transported to or from the city of Philadelphia and Baltimore, by the way of Elkton, Bohemia or Frenchtown, and Port Penn, Appoquinimink, New Castle, Christiana Bridge, Newport or Wilmington, shall and may lawfully be transported, to and from the city of Philadelphia and Baltimore, by the way of Appoquinimink and Sassafras 1799, ch. 22. river, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and advantages, and shall be subject to all the provisions, regulations, limitations and restrictions, existing in the case of goods, wares and merchandise, transported by any of the routes before mentioned.

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Stat. at Large, CHAP. XXV.— An Act to amend the Act altering the District of Bermuda Hundred Vol. II. p. 116.

Alterations in the districts. 1800, ch. 49.

and City Point.

Be it enacted, &c. That the master or commander of any ship or vessel arriving within the districts of Petersburg or Richmond, laden with goods, wares and merchandise, belonging or consigned to persons resident within both the said districts, shall make entry of such ship or vessel, in manner already prescribed by law, with the collector of that district wherein the owner or consignee, or the husband or acting manager of such ship or vessel, shall actually reside; and the said master or commander shall, at the time of making the entry aforesaid, deliver a dupli

cate manifest of the cargo as now required by law, to the said collector, whose duty it shall then be, to certify the same as a true copy, and to transmit it to the collector of the other district, and the delivery of such goods, wares or merchandise, shall be authorized by permits from the collector of each district respectively, in which the same shall have been duly entered according to law: Provided, That no bona fide importer, owner or consignee of goods, wares or merchandise, residing in either district, shall be admitted to make an entry of such goods, wares or merchandise with the collector of the district, in which such importer, owner or consignee shall not reside: And provided also, That all entries for goods, wares or merchandise, made by agents, for persons residing in other districts, shall be made with the collector of the district in which such ship or vessel may discharge.

No. 41.- MARCH 3, 1801.

CHAP. XXVIII. - An Act directing the Mode of estimating certain foreign Coins and
Currencies, and of making out Invoices in certain Cases.

Stat. at Large, Vol. II. p. 121.

Act of March

sec. 74.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the foreign coins and currencies hereinafter mentioned, shall be estimated in the computation of duties, at the 2, 1799, ch. 22, following rates: each sicca rupee of Bengal and each rupee of Bombay, at fifty cents; * and each star pagoda of Madras, at one hundred and eighty-four cents; anything in any former act to the contrary notwithstanding.

of

SEC. 2. That the invoices of all goods, imported into the United States, and subject to a duty ad valorem, shall be made out in the currency the place or country from whence the importation shall be made, and shall contain a true statement of the actual cost of such goods, in such foreign currency or currencies, without any respect to the value of the coins of the United States, or foreign coins, which now are, or shall be by law made current within the United States, in such foreign place or country.

1799, ch. 22,

sec. 36.

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An Act for the Accommodation of Persons concerned in certain Fisheries
therein mentioned.†

Stat. at Large, Vol. II. p. 137.

Collector of

places in his dis

In other re

spects the usual observed.

regulations to be

Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the passing of this act, it shall be lawful for the collector of the customs for the district of Edenton to the customs at Edenton to perpermit any vessel having on board salt only, after due report and entry, mit the landing and security given for the duties, to proceed under the inspection of an of salt at fishofficer of the customs to any fishery, or other landing place within the dis- eries and other trict, (to be designated in the permit) and there discharge the same; trict. subject, however, in all other respects, to the regulations, restrictions, penalties and provisions established by an act passed the second of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, intituled " An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." SEC. 2. That every inspector or other officer of the customs, while performing duty on board any such vessel, elsewhere than in the port to which such officer may properly belong, shall be entitled to receive from the master, or commander thereof, such provisions and other accommodations (free from expense) as are usually supplied to passengers, or as the modations from state and condition of the vessel will admit.

Act of 1799, ch. 22, sec. 53,

56.

Inspectors or other officers of the customs en

titled to accom

the vessels.

And to pecu

SEC. 3. That if by reason of the delivery of any cargo of salt, in manner aforesaid, more than fifteen working days (computing from the date niary compensaof entry) shall, in the whole, be spent therein, the wages or compensation of

tions if more

* See act of March 3, 1843, ch. 92, § 1.

† See act of July 28, 1866, ch. 298, § 4.

than fifteen days such inspector, or other officer of the customs who may be employed on be spent therein. board any vessel, in respect to which such term may be so exceeded, shall, for every day of such excess, be paid by the master or owner; and until paid, it shall not be lawful for the collector to grant a clearance, or to permit such vessel to depart from the district.

Stat. at Large, Vol. II. p. 148.

Certain certifi

cates to be fur-
nished by col-
lectors, desig-
nated by the

Secretary of the
And inspectors

Treasury.

to account to them for all

such.

Allowance to

the collectors.

Stat. at Large, Vol. II. p. 181.

Act of 1799,

ch. 22. Act of

1817, ch. 109. East River

district formed

from the district of Yorktown, in Va.

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SEC. 7. [That the certificates accompanying foreign distilled spirits, wines and teas, which are now furnished by the supervisors to the inspectors of the ports shall, from and after the aforesaid thirtieth day of June, be furnished by such collectors of the customs, as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury. And it shall be the duty of the inspectors to account with such collectors, for the application of such certificates, in like manner, and under the same regulations, as heretofore they have accounted with the supervisors.*

SEC. 8. That for preparing and issuing the certificates, the collectors performing that duty shall be entitled to, and receive the same compensation as heretofore has been allowed to the supervisors, respectively.]

No. 44. MAY 1, 1802.

CHAP. XLV. - An Act to provide for the Establishment of certain Districts, and therein to amend an Act intituled "An Act to regulate the Collection of Duties on Imports and Tonnage ;" and for other Purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That a district shall be formed from the district of Yorktown in Virginia, to be called the district of East River, † which shall comprehend the waters, shores, harbors, and inlets of North and East River, and Mobjack bay, and all other navigable waters, shores, harbors and inlets within the county of Mathews, in said State; and it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to designate a proper place Port designated to be port of entry and delivery within the said district; and to appoint by the President, and officers to be a collector and surveyor of the customs to reside and keep their offices appointed. thereat, who shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the fees and other Their compen- emoluments established by law, the annual salary of two hundred dollars

sations.

Bennet's creek

a port.

discontinued, as A port of delivery at Tomb

stone.

each.

SEC. 2. That Bennet's creek, within the district of Edenton, and State of North Carolina, shall cease to be a port of delivery, as heretofore established, and the office, authority, and emoluments of the surveyor of said port, shall also from thenceforth terminate and be discontinued; and a port of delivery, in lieu thereof, shall be established on Salmon creek Surveyor to reside there. within the district aforesaid, at a place called the Tombstone; and a surCompensation. veyor of the customs shall be appointed to reside and keep an office thereat, who shall be entitled to receive for his services, in addition to the fees established by law, the annual salary heretofore allowed to the surveyor of Bennet's creek.

Collector of the district of

Georgetown may

SEC. 9. That all that part of the act, intituled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," passed on the second day of reside out of that March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, that directs that the collector of the district of Georgetown shall reside at Georgetown, be, and is hereby repealed.

town.

Vol. i. 627.

* See acts of 1865, ch. 89, § 10, and 1866, ch. 201, § 43.

† Abolished and annexed to Yorktown by act of June 15, 1844, ch. 51, § 1.

CHAP. LI.

No. 45.-MAY 3, 1802.

- An Act to amend an Act intituled "An Act for the Relief of sick and dis-
abled Seamen," and for other Purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That the moneys heretofore collected in pursuance of the several acts "for the relief of sick and disabled seamen," and at present unexpended, together with the moneys hereafter to be collected by authority of the before-mentioned acts, shall constitute a general fund, which the President of the United States shall use and employ as circumstances shall require for the benefit and convenience of sick and disabled American seamen.

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Masters of

boats, rafts, &c. going to New Orleans, down the Mississippi, to make reports

of the number of

Penalty for rendering a

false account.

SEC. 3. That the master of every boat, raft or flat, belonging to any citizen of the United States which shall go down the Mississippi with intention to proceed to New Orleans shall, on his arrival at Fort Adams, render to the collector or naval officer thereof, a true account of the number of persons employed on board such boat, raft or flat, and the time that each person has been so employed, and shall pay to the said collector or hands, &c. naval officer at the rate of twenty cents per month, for every person so employed, which sum, he is hereby authorized to retain out of the wages of such person: and the said collector or naval officer shall not give a clearance for such boat, raft or flat, to proceed on her voyage to New Orleans, until an account be rendered to him of the number of persons employed on board such boat, raft or flat, and the money paid to him by the master or owner thereof: and if any such master shall render a false account of the number of persons, and the length of time they have severally been employed, as is herein required, he shall forfeit and pay fifty Persons navidollars, which shall be applied to, and shall make a part of, the said gen- gatits, to be eral fund for the purposes of this act: Provided, that all persons employed considered as in navigating any such boat, raft or flat, shall be considered as seamen of seamen of the the United States, and entitled to the relief extended by law to sick and United States. disabled seamen. †

SEC. 4. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to nominate and appoint for the port of New Orleans, a fit person to be director of the marine hospital of the United States, whose duties shall be in all instances the same as the directors of the marine hospitals of the United States, as directed and required by the act, intituled "An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen." [Act of July 16, 1798, chap. 76.]

such

President to appoint a director of the marine Orleans. hospital at New

admitted in cer

shall remain

master, as afore

Sick foreign seamen may be tain cases. Seamen admitted into the hospital subject SEC. 5. That each and every director of the marine hospitals within to a charge for the United States, shall, if it can with convenience be done, admit into every day they the hospital of which he is director, sick foreign seamen, on the applica- therein. tion of the master or commander of any foreign vessel to which such sick Clearance not seamen may belong; and each seaman so admitted shall be subject to a the collector unto be given by charge of seventy-five cents per day for each day he may remain in the til the money hospital, the payment of which the master or commander of such foreign due from the vessel shall make to the collector of the district in which such hospital is said, shall be situated and the collector shall not grant a clearance to any foreign ves- paid. sel, until the money due from such master or commander, in manner and Accs. against foreign seamen form aforesaid, shall be paid; and the director of each hospital is hereby to be made out directed, under the penalty of fifty dollars, to make out the accounts by the director of the hospital. against each foreign seaman that may be placed in the hospital, under his Collectors to direction, and render the same to the collector. pay the money SEC. 6. That the collectors shall pay the money collected, by virtue of they collect into this and the act to which this is an amendment, into the treasury of the the U. States United States, and be accountable therefor, and receive the same commis- under this and sion thereon, as for other money by them collected. SEC. 7. That each and every director of the marine hospitals shall be ment.

• See act of February 13, 1807, ch. 14.

the Treasury of

the act to which this is a supple

† See act of July 20, 1846, ch. 60, § 1.

Director of the marine hospital to account for the money received by him. Allowed a commission.

accountable at the treasury of the United States for the money by them received in the same manner as other receivers of public money, and for the sums by them expended shall be allowed a commission at the rate of one per cent.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. IX.

Vol. II. p. 203.

Act of April

14, 1792, ch. 24.

1811, ch. 28.

1817, ch. 40.

Masters of

lists to the collectors of the ports whence

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- An Act supplementary to the "Act concerning Consuls and Vice-Consuls, and for the further Protection of American Seamen.*

Be it enacted, That before a clearance be granted to any vessel bound Act of May 1, on a foreign voyage,† the master thereof shall deliver to the collector of 1810, ch. 44. Act the customs, a list, containing the names, places of birth and residence, and of February 28, a description of the persons who compose his ship's company, to which list Act of March 3, the oath or affirmation of the captain shall be annexed, that the said list contains the names of his crew, together with the places of their birth and vessels to deliver residence, as far as he can ascertain them, and the said collector shall deliver him a certified copy thereof, ‡ for which the collector shall be entitled to receive the sum of twenty-five cents; and the said master shall they go from the moreover enter into bond with sufficient security, in the sum of four hunU. States of dred dollars, that he shall exhibit the aforesaid certified copy of the list their ship's com- to the first boarding officer, at the first port in the United States, at which panies, containing descriptions he shall arrive on his return thereto, and then and there also produce the of their persons, persons named therein, to the said boarding officer, whose duty it shall be to examine the men with such list, and to report the same to the collector, and it shall be the duty of the collector at the said port of arrival, (where the same is different from the port from which the vessel originally sailed) to transmit a copy of the list so reported to him, to the collector of the port from which said vessel originally sailed: Provided, That the said bond shall not be forfeited on account of the said master not producing to the first boarding officer, as aforesaid, any of the persons contained in the said list, who may be discharged in a foreign country with the consent of the consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent there Proofs of per- residing, signified in writing, under his hand and official seal, to be prosons discharged duced to the collector with the other persons composing the crew as aforeor persons dying, said; nor on account of any such person dying or absconding, or being to be exhibited forcibly impressed into other service, of which satisfactory proof shall be then also exhibited to the collector.

&c.

Certified copies to be delivered

to the masters: fees to be paid for them.

Masters to en

ter into bonds, for what conditioned.

Provisions in favor of the cap

tains.

in foreign ports,

to collectors.

Masters of vessels belonging

to the consuls,
&c. there certain

papers.
Penalty for not
doing it.

Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 40.

SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of every master or commander of a to U. States ar- ship or a vessel, belonging to citizens of the United States, who shall sail riving in foreign from any port of the United States, after the first day of May next, on ports to deliver his arrival at a foreign port, to deposit his register, sea letter, and Mediterranean passport with the consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vicecommercial agent, (if any there be at such port;) that in case of refusal or neglect of the said master or commander, to deposit the said papers as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay five hundred dollars, to be recovered by the said consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, in his own name, for the benefit of the United States, in any court of competent jurisdiction; and it shall be the duty of such consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, on such master or commander producing to him a clearance from the proper officer of the port, where his ship or vessel may be, to deliver to the said master or commander all of his said papers: Provided, such master or commander shall have complied with the provisions contained in this act, and those of the act to which this is a supplement.

Acts to be done upon the discharge of

SEC. 3. That whenever a ship or vessel belonging to a citizen of the United States, shall be sold in a foreign country, and her company dis

*See note to act of April 14, 1792, ch. 24, vol. i. p. 254.

See act of July 20, 1840, ch. 48, § 1, second clause.

See act of April 4, 1840, ch. 6, § 2.

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