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Classification

of clerks in the

departments, and their pay. 1854, ch. 52.

Chief clerks and their pay.

Appointment of clerks.

No extra salaries to be paid.

Disbursing

clerks.

SEC. 3. That from and after the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, the clerks in the Departments of the Treasury, War, Navy, the Interior, and the Post-Office, shall be arranged into four classes, [of which class number one shall receive an annual salary of nine hundred dollars each, class number two an annual salary of one thousand two hundred dollars each, class number three an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars each,] and class number four an annual salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars each.

And there shall be a chief clerk for each of the offices of the solicitor, first comptroller, second comptroller, first auditor, second auditor, third auditor, fourth auditor, fifth auditor, auditor of the treasury for the PostOffice Department, register, commissioner of customs, treasurer, lighthouse board, commissioner of pensions, commissioner of the general land-office, commissioner of Indian affairs, and commissioner of patents, who shall be allowed an annual compensation of two thousand dollars each; and there shall be a chief clerk for each of the Departments of the Treasury, War, Navy, Interior, and General Post-Office, who shall be allowed an annual compensation of two thousand two hundred dollars each.

No clerk shall be appointed in either of the four classes until after he has been examined and found qualified by a board, to consist of three examiners, one of them to be the chief of the bureau or office into which he is to be appointed, and the two others to be selected by the head of the department to which the said clerk will be assigned. Nor shall any clerk in the departments herein named receive any other salary or money for extra services than the sum or sums specified in this section, at any time after this section has been executed by a classification of the clerks as it prescribes. There shall be a disbursing clerk for each of the Departments of War, Navy, and the Post-Office; not more than three for the Treasury Department, at the discretion of the Secretary thereof; and not more than three for the Department of the Interior, at the discretion of the Secretary thereof. The said clerks to be appointed out of class four by the heads of the respective departments, and to receive such sum, in addition to their regular salaries, as may amount in all to two thousand dollars per annum. But it shall be their further duty, when designated by the head of the department for that service, to superintend the buildings, and they shall give bonds as required by the independent treasury act: Provided, That the clerks when distributed and arranged as required by this section shall be paid according to its provisions, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and shall constitute the whole of the permanent clerical force of the Departments of the Treasury, War, Navy, the Interior, and the Post-Office, with the exception of the census bureau, which is not included in this arrangement, and the clerks temporarily employed in the office of the third auditor on bounty land service, Distribution of and on arrearages of pay: And provided further, That each head of the clerks may be changed.

Proviso.

Compensation of Vice-President and heads

of departments, and AttorneyGeneral.

said departments may alter the distribution herein made of the clerks amongst the various bureaus and offices in his departments, if he should find it necessary and proper to do so.

SEC. 4. That hereafter the annual compensation of the Vice-President, Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy, and Interior, and the Postmaster and Attorney-General, shall be eight thousand dollars each.

SEC. 16. That the salary of the assistant treasurer of the United States in New York, from and after the time that the said office* shall be opened and in operation, shall be six thousand dollars per annum, instead of the sum now allowed.

*Assay office in New York, authorized by 10th section of this act. See, post, laws relating to U. S. mint, &c.

No. 346.—MARCH 3, 1853.

[No. 13.] A Resolution in Amendment of a Joint Resolution relating to the Duties of Inspectors of Steamers, approved the seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and fiftythree.

Stat. at Large,

Vol. X. p. 262.

metallic life

SEC. 3. That the said inspectors shall hereafter be authorized and em- Substitute for powered, upon satisfactory proof that the owner or owners of a steamer are boats authorized unable to obtain seasonably or upon reasonable terms, a metallic life-boat, in certain cases. as required by said act, or that such a boat is unsuited to the navigation in which a steamer is employed, to accept in any such case a substitute or substitutes for such metallic life-boat; Provided, Such substitute shall in their judgment afford safe and suitable means of preserving life in case of accident.

SEC. 4. That no person interested as patentee, in any way, direct or indirect in life-preservers, life-boats or any other article required for steamers by the law of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, aforesaid, shall be deemed competent to to hold the office of inspector or to discharge the duties thereof.

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Proviso.

No person in

terested in any patent for lifeboats to be competent to be an inspector of steamboats.

Stat. at Large,

Vol. X. p. 266.
Quincy, Illi-
nois, made a port
of delivery.
Surveyor to
be appointed.

1831, ch. 87.

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CHAP. IX. ·An Act to constitute Quincy, in the State of Illinois, a Port of Delivery. Be it enacted, &c. That Quincy, in the State of Illinois, shall be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery, and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports of delivery in the United States; and there shall be appointed a surveyor of customs to reside at said port, who shall, in addition to his own duties, perform the duties and receive the salary and emoluments of surveyor prescribed by the act of Congress, approved on the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, providing for the payment of duties on imported goods at certain ports therein mentioned, entitled "An act allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be secured and paid at those places," and the said city of Quincy and the said port of delivery be, and is hereby, annexed to lection district of and made a part of the collection district of New Orleans, and all the New Orleans. facilities and privileges afforded by said act of Congress, of the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, be and hereby are extended to the said port of Quincy.

Quincy made of the col

part

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Vol. X. p. 268.

Limits of the

Be it enacted, &c. That the port of New Orleans be so extended as to embrace the right bank of the Mississippi river, for the same distance up port of New Orsaid bank as it now extends on the left bank.

leans extended.

No. 349.- MARCH 28, 1854.

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An Act to extend the Warehousing System by establishing Private
Bonded Warehouses, and for other Purposes.

Stat. at Large, Vol. X. p. 270. 1854, ch. 196.

warehouses.

Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the passage of this act, any Goods may be goods, wares or merchandise subject to duty, with the exception of per- deposited in ishable articles, also gunpowder, fire-crackers, and other explosive sub- public or private stances, which shall have been duly entered and bonded for warehousing, 1866,ch. 201,§ 38. in conformity with existing laws, may be deposited at the option of the owner, importer, consignee, or agent, at his expense and risk, in any public warehouse owned or leased by the United States, or in the private warehouse of the importer, the same being used exclusively for the stor

What private warehouses may be used, and on

what terms.

Cellars, vaults, and yards may for certain purposes be private

warehouses.

Unclaimed

goods may be deposited in

warehouses.

age of warehoused goods of his own importation or to his consignment, or in a private warehouse used by the owner, occupant, or lessee, as a general warehouse for the storage of warehoused goods, such place of storage to be designated on the warehouse entry at the time of entering such merchandise at the custom-house: Provided, That such private warehouse shall be used solely for the purpose of storing warehoused goods, and shall have been previously approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, and have been placed in charge of a proper officer of the customs, who, together with the owner and proprietor of the warehouse, shall have the joint custody of all the merchandise stored in said warehouse, and all the labor on the goods, so stored, must be performed by the owner or proprietor of the warehouse, under the supervision of the officer of the customs in charge of the same, at the expense of the aforesaid owner or proprietor: And provided further, That cellars and vaults of stores for the storage of wines and distilled spirits only, and yards for the storage of coal, mahogany, and other woods and lumber, may, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be constituted bonded warehouses for the storage of such articles under the same regulations and conditions as required in the storage of other merchandise; the cellars or vaults aforesaid shall be exclusively appropriated to the storage of wines or distilled spirits, and shall have no opening or entrance except the one from the street, on which separate and different locks of the custom-house and the owner or proprietor of the cellars or vaults shall be placed.

SEC. 2. That unclaimed goods, wares, or merchandise required by existing laws to be taken possession of by collectors of the customs, may public or private be stored in any public warehouse owned or leased by the United States, or in any private bonded warehouse authorized by this act, and all charges for storage, labor, and other expenses accruing on any such goods, wares, or merchandise, not to exceed in any case the regular rates for such objects at the port in question, must be paid before delivery of the goods on due entry thereof by the claimant or owner; or if sold as unclaimed goods to realize the import duties, the aforesaid charges shall be paid by the collector out of the proceeds of the sale thereof before paying such proceeds into the treasury as required by existing laws. And any collector of the customs is hereby authorized, under such directions and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, to sell, upon due noclaimed goods. tice, at public auction, any unclaimed goods, wares, or merchandise deposited in public warehouse whenever the same may from depreciation in value, damage, leakage, or other cause, in the opinion of such collector, be likely to prove insufficient on a sale thereof to pay the duties, storage, and other charges if suffered to remain in public store for the period now allowed by law in the case of unclaimed goods.

Sale of un

Bond in case of establishment of a private warehouse.

Goods may re

main in warehouses three

years.

SEC. 3. That before any of the stores or cellars aforesaid, owned or occupied by private individuals, shall be used as a warehouse for merchandise imported by other merchants or importers, the owner, occupant, or lessee thereof shall enter into bond, in such sums and with such sureties as may be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, exonerating and holding the United States and its officers harmless from or on account of any risk, loss, or expense of any kind or description, connected with or arising from the deposit or keeping of the merchandise in the warehouses aforesaid; and all imports deposited in any public or private warehouse. authorized by this act, shall be at the sole and exclusive risk and expense of the owner or importer.

SEC. 4. That all goods, wares, and merchandise, which may be hereafter duly entered for warehousing under bond, and likewise all merchandise now remaining in warehouse under bond, may continue in warehouse, 1861, ch. 45, § 5. without payment of duties thereupon, for a period of three years from the Vol. xii. p. 293. date of original importation, and may be withdrawn for consumption on due entry and payment of the duties and charges, or upon entry for ex

Also 1862, ch.

163, § 21.

No drawback

entered for con

portation, without the payment of duties, at any time within the period aforesaid; in the latter case, the goods to be subject only to the payment of such storage and charges as may be due thereon: Provided, however, That where the duties shall have been paid upon any goods, wares, or merchandise entered for consumption, said duties shall not be refunded on on goods once exportation of any such goods, wares, or merchandise, without the limits sumption. of the United States: And provided further, That there shall be no abate- No abatement ment of the duties or allowance made for any injury, damage, deteriora- of duties for leakage, injuries, tion, loss, or leakage sustained by any goods, wares, or merchandise, whilst &c. deposited in any public or private bonded warehouse established or recognized by this act.

re-warehoused

countries.

SEC. 5. That any goods, wares, or merchandise, duly entered for ware- Goods may be housing, may be withdrawn under bond, without payment of the duties, withdrawn to be from a bonded warehouse in any collection district of the United States, elsewhere. and be transported to a bonded warehouse in any other collection district 1861, ch. 45, § 5. within the same, and re-warehoused thereat; and any such goods, wares, 1862,ch. 163,§ 21. or merchandise, may be so transported to their destination wholly by land, or wholly by water, or partly by land and partly by water, over such routes as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, and may likewise be conveyed over any foreign territory, the government of which may have, or shall by treaty stipulations grant, a free right of way over such territory; and for the purpose of better guarding against frauds upon the rev- Special inspecenue on foreign goods transported between the ports of the Atlantic and tors in foreign those of the Pacific overland through any foreign territory, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby authorized to appoint special sworn agents as inspectors of the customs, to reside in said foreign territory where such goods may be landed or embarked, with power to superintend the landing or shipping of all goods passing coastwise between the ports of the United States on the Pacific and Atlantic, and whose duty it shall be, under such regulations and instructions as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, to guard against the perpetration of any frauds upon the revenue, Provided, That the compensation paid to said inspectors shall not in the aggregate exceed five thousand dollars per annum. SEC. 6. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe the form Regulations and of the bond to be given for the transportation of goods, wares, and mer- goods are transpenalties where chandise, from a port in one collection district to a port in another collec- ferred from one tion district in the United States, as provided in the preceding section; another. also the time for such delivery; and for a failure to transport and deliver, 1861, ch. 10, § 3. within the time limited, any such bonded goods, wares, and merchandise, to the collector at the designated port, an additional duty of one hundred 163, § 20. per cent. shall be levied and collected, which additional duty shall be secured by such bond, or said goods, wares, and merchandise may be seized and forfeited for such failure, and any steam or other vessel, or vehicle, transporting such bonded goods, wares, and merchandise, the master, owner, or conductor of which shall fail to deliver the same to the collector at the designated port, shall be liable to seizure and forfeiture.

Their compensation.

warehouse to

Also 1862, ch.

SEC. 7. That all leases of stores now held by the United States for the Existing leases purpose of storing warehoused or unclaimed goods, shall, on the shortest to be terminated, and regulations period of termination named in said leases, be cancelled, and no leases as to future ones. shall be entered into by the United States for any stores for the storage of warehoused or unclaimed goods at any port where there may exist any private bonded warehouses, after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the leasing or hiring of such buildings or accommodations as may be required for the use of the United States appraisers for the due examination and appraisal of imported merchandise at the ports where such officers are provided by law, nor to prohibit the leasing or hiring by collectors of the customs, for short periods, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, of such stores as may be required for custom

Provision for the case of fire

while goods are in bond or being

transferred.

1865, ch. 80.

house purposes at any of the smaller revenue ports of the United States: Provided, That no collector or other officer of the customs shall enter into any contract or agreement for the use of any building to be thereafter erected as a public store or warehouse, and no lease of any building to be so used shall be taken for a longer period than three years, nor shall rent be paid, in whole or in part, in any case, in advance.

SEC. 8. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, auor other casualty thorized, upon production of satisfactory proof to him of the actual injury or destruction, in whole or in part, of any goods, wares, or merchandise; by accidental fire, or other casualty, while the same remained in the custody of the officers of the customs in any public or private warehouse under bond, or in the appraisers' stores undergoing appraisal, in pursuance of law or regulations of the Treasury Department, or while in transportation under bond from the port of entry to any other port in the United States, to abate or refund, as the case may be, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of impost duties paid or accruing thereupon; and likewise to cancel any warehouse bond or bonds, or enter satisfaction thereon in whole or in part, as the case may be.

Secretary of the Treasury may make rules, &c. to carry out

this act.

Stat. at Large, Vol. X. p. 276.

Salary of the

ments.

SEC. 9. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized from time to time to establish such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States, for the due execution of this act, as he may deem to be expedient and necessary; and all acts and parts of acts conflicting with this act are hereby repealed.

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CHAP. LII. An Act to amend the third Section of the "Act making Appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic Expenses of Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four," and for other Purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That of the clerks authorized by the third section of clerks in depart the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, entitled 1853, ch. 97, § 3. “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four," those of the first class shall receive a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum; those of the second class, a salary of fourteen hundred dollars per annum; those of the third class, a salary of sixteen hundred dollars per annum; and all clerks not provided for in this act, performing the same or similar duties with any one of the classes, shall receive the same compensation as is allowed to such class; and the clerks employed in the census bureau shall be paid, during the present fiscal year, the same as is hereby allowed to clerks of the second class.

Salary of stamp agent in Post-Office De

partment.

SEC. 2. That the stamp and blank agent for the Post-Office Department receive the same salary as clerks of the second class, provided for in the first section of this act; and an addition of twenty per cent. is hereby added to the pay now authorized by law to each of the mesthe pay of cer- sengers, packers, laborers, and watchmen of the different executive tain messengers, departments of the government in Washington.

Twenty per cent. added to

&c.

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Stat. at Large, CHAP. LXX. - An Act to authorize the Issue of Registers to Vessels owned by the Vol. X. p. 300. Accessory Transit Company."

Registers to be issued by Secre

tary of the Treasury for steam

boats and vessels

passing over a certain route.

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Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause registers to be issued in the name of the President of the "Accessory Transit Company," incorporated under a charter from the State of Nicaragua, for the steamboats or vessels owned by said company, and employed in the transportation of merchandise and

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