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passengers between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, through or over the territory of the State aforesaid: Provided, That before the granting of a register for any steamboat or vessel owned by said company, to be employed as aforesaid, the president of said company shall swear or affirm that the said steamboat or vessel is owned by said. Oath to be made by presicompany; that all the officers, and at least two thirds of the crew, are dent before regcitizens of the United States, or persons not the subjects of any foreign ister is granted. prince or state; that all the officers, and directors of said company are citizens of the United States, and that two thirds of the stock of said company is owned by citizens of the United States; which oath or affirmation shall be deemed sufficient, without requiring the oath or affirmation of any other person interested or concerned in said steamboat

or vessel: And provided further, That a register issued under this act Further proviso. How long regshall continue in force one year and no longer, unless the president of the ister continues company aforesaid shall, within one year from the date of the register, in force. make anew the oath or affirmation aforesaid, and the collector of the customs shall certify the date of said renewed oath or affirmation on the back of said register, which shall continue in force for one year from said date, and the oath or affirmation may be so renewed and the indorsement so made once in each and every year thereafter, and the register shall continue in force accordingly.

Bond to be

ployment of the

SEC. 2. That before granting a register to any steamboat or vessel, owned by the company aforesaid, the president thereof shall, together with given for the emone or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the collector of the customs, vessel. by whom, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, the register may be issued, become bound to the United States in the sum

of twenty-five thousand dollars, with condition that the steamboat or vessel Conditions. shall be solely employed in the transportation of merchandise and passengers between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States as aforesaid; that the register shall be solely used for said steamboat or vessel; that it shall not be sold, lent, or otherwise disposed of to any other company, person, or persons; and that in case such steamboat or vessel shall be sold, lost, or otherwise prevented from returning to the United States, the said register shall, within six months thereafter, if preserved, be returned to the collector of the customs who issued it or to the register of the treasury for cancellation; and on failure to comply with any of the conditions aforesaid, a forfeiture shall accrue to the United States of the complying with entire penal sum named in said bond, to be enforced in any court bond. of competent jurisdiction, and the outstanding register shall be null and void.

Penalty of not

the conditions of

to be issued

president of the company.

SEC. 3. That whenever the officer to whom said register had been New register issued shall cease to be the president of said company, any register when a new perwhich may have been issued in his name shall be void, and a new son becomes register must be issued, in compliance with the provisions of this act. SEC. 4. That before issuing any register as aforesaid, it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the steamboat or vessel for which the register is to issue shall have been built and be built in the U. S. and be subject equipped wholly in the United States; and said steamboats and vessels to U. S. laws. shall, in all respects, be subject to the laws of the United States in the same manner as vessels built wholly and registered by American citizens.

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No. 352. - JULY 27, 1854.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. CV.-An Act creating a Collection District in New York, to be called the District Vol. X. p. 310. of Dunkirk, and constituting Dunkirk a Port of Entry, and the Ports of Barcelona, Silver Creek, and Cattaraugus Creek, Ports of Delivery.

Collection dis

established.

Said district designated.

Dunkirk made the port of entry. The ports of delivery.

Collector to be appointed.

Be it enacted, &c. That the counties of Cattaraugus and Chautauque trict of Dunkirk and the harbors, rivers, and waters on the southern shore of Lake Erie, in the State of New York, west of and including Cattaraugus Creek and the shores, on each side of said creek, and west along the shore and territory bordering on Lake Erie aforesaid, to the Pennsylvania State line, and the islands in the said lake contiguous thereto, heretofore embraced in the district of Buffalo Creek, shall be and are hereby constituted a collection district to be called the district of Dunkirk; and a port of entry for said district is hereby established at Dunkirk, and the ports of Barcelona, Silver Creek, and Cattaraugus Creek shall be ports of delivery. SEC. 2. That there shall be appointed, in the manner prescribed by law, a collector of customs for the aforesaid district, who shall thereafter and during his continuance in office reside at the port of entry created by this act, together with such other subordinate officers of the customs as His compensa- are provided for by law, and the compensation of said collector shall be such sum as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury in the classification of the compensation of collectors of customs, not to exceed one thousand dollars per annum: Provided, That in case no classification of the compensation of collectors of customs shall be made, then the compensation of the collector for the port of entry established by this act shall be five hundred dollars per annum, together with such fees and emoluments as are authorized by existing laws.

tion.

Proviso.

Deputy collectors for the ports of delivery their powers, duties, and compensation.

SEC. 3. That deputy collectors of customs for the several ports of delivery constituted by this act shall be appointed and compensated for their services in the mode prescribed by existing laws, and said officers shall exercise all the powers and duties vested in deputy collectors of customs under existing laws.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. CLXXXIX. · Vol. X. p. 333.

Lake Port made a port of delivery-limits thereof.

No. 353.- AUGUST 2, 1854.

An Act to establish a Port of Delivery at Lake Port on Lake
Pontchartrain, and for other Purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That there be and hereby is established at the terminus of the Jefferson and Lake Ponchartrain Railway, on Lake Pontchartrain, a port of delivery, to embrace also the lake terminus of the Surveyor ap- new canal, to be called Lake Port; that a surveyor shall be appointed pointed to reside to reside thereat; that all ships or vessels bound to said port shall, after When vessels proceeding thereto, and making report and entry at the port of New may unlade their Orleans, within the time limited by law, be permitted to unlade their cargoes at said cargoes at the said port, under the rules and regulations prescribed by law.

there.

port.

sels departing

Rules, &c. un- SEC. 2. That all vessels about to depart from said port to foreign ports der which ves- and places, shall be permitted to clear out with their cargoes at the from said port to custom-house in the city of New Orleans and depart under the same foreign ports are rules, regulations, and restrictions, and in every respect in the same manner as vessels clearing out and departing for foreign ports and places from the said city of New Orleans by the way of the Mississippi River.

allowed to clear

out at the custom-house in New Orleans.

No. 354. AUGUST 2, 1854.

CHAP. CXCI.— An Act constituting Madison, in the State of Indiana, a Port of Stat. at Large,

Delivery.

Vol. X. p. 334.

Madison made a port of delivery.

Surveyor

Be it enacted, &c. That Madison, in the State of Indiana, 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 appointment, duties, and the salary and emoluments of surveyor, prescribed by the act of Congress, salary. approved on the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, provid- 1831, ch. 87. ing 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 town of Madison, and the said port of delivery be, and is hereby, annexed the collection to and made a part of the collection district of New Orleans, and all the district of New facilities and privileges afforded by the said act of Congress of the second Orleans. of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, be and are hereby extended act 1831, ch. 87, Privileges of to the said port of Madison.

Annexed to

extended to said port.

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CHAP. CXCII.- An Act to constitute Tuscumbia, in the State of Alabama, a Port of Stat. at Large'
Delivery, and for other Purposes.
Vol. X. p. 334.
1831, ch. 87.
Paducah,

SEC. 2. That Paducah, in the State of Kentucky, Shreveport, in the State of Louisiana, and Jeffersonville, in the State of Indiana, shall be, Shreveport, and Jeffersonville, and they are hereby, constituted ports of delivery within the collection ports of delivery district of New Orleans; and there shall be appointed a surveyor of in district of New Orleans. customs to reside at each port, who shall, in addition to their own duties, Surveyors perform the duties and receive the salary and emoluments of surveyor residence, &c. prescribed by the act of Congress approved on the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, for importing merchandise into Pittsburg, Wheeling, and other places.

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СНАР. СХСІІІ. . An Act creating a Collection District in Texas and New Mexico.

1831, ch. 87. Ante, p. 240.

Stat. at Large, Vol. X. p. 335. The county of

Be it enacted, &c. That the county of El Paso in the State of Texas and the Territory of New Mexico be, and they are hereby created a El Paso and Tercollection district, which shall be called the district of Paso del Norte, Mexico created ritory of New [and Frontera within said county of El Paso is hereby made a port of entry and de- a collection dislivery for said district].

SEC. 2. That there shall be a collector of customs appointed for said district, together with such other officers as are provided for by law. The said collector [shall reside at Frontera aforesaid,] and he shall be entitled to a salary, not exceeding two thousand dollars per annum, including in that sum the fees allowed by law; and the amount he shall collect in any one year for fees, exceeding the sum of two thousand dollars, shall be accounted for and paid into the treasury of the United States.

trict.

1863, ch. 88. Frontera its

port.

Collector and

other officers to be appointed. Collectorresidence and salary.

Fees exceed

SEC. 3. That the district court for the Territory of New Mexico shall ing $2,000 to be have and exercise jurisdiction over all cases which shall arise in the col- paid into U. S. Treasury. lection district of Paso del Norte, in the administration of the revenue Jurisdiction of laws, in the same manner, as if the said district was entirely within the District Court. Territory of New Mexico.

Stat. at Large, Vol. X. p. 344. 1799, ch. 22. 1854, ch. 30. Merchandise imported in

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CHAP. CXCVI. - An Act to amend the Provisions of the fifty-sixth Section of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the Collection of Duties on Imports and Tonnage," approved the second Day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

Be it enacted, &c. That whenever merchandise shall hereafter be imde ported into any port of the United States from any foreign country in vesposit of in bond- sels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and it shall appear by the bills ed warehouses. of lading that the merchandise so imported is to be delivered immediately after the entry of the vessel, it shall be lawful for the collector of such port to take possession of such merchandise and deposit the same in bonded warehouse, and whenever it shall not appear by the bills of lading that the merchandise imported as aforesaid is to be immediately delivered, it shall be lawful for the collector of the customs to take possession of the same, and deposit it in bonded warehouse, at the request of the owner, master or consignee of the vessel, on three days' notice to such collector after the entry of the vessel, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the foregoing provisions are hereby repealed.

No. 358. - AUGUST 3, 1854.

Delivery.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. CXCVIII. -An Act to constitute Cairo, in the State of Illinois, a Port of Vol. X. p. 345. Cairo, Ill.,

Be it enacted, &c. That Cairo, in the State of Illinois, shall be, and is made a port of hereby, constituted a port of delivery, and shall be subject to the same delivery.

Surveyor his duties and salary.

1831, ch. 87. Ante, p. 240.

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 thirtyone, 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 Cairo, and the said port of delivery be, and is hereby, trict of New Or- annexed to, and made part of, the collection district of New Orleans, and -its privi- all the 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 Cairo.

Annexed to collection dis

leans

leges.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. CXCIX.

Vol. X. p. 345.

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No. 359. - AUGUST 3, 1854.

- An Act constituting San Pedro, in the State of California, a Port of Entry and Delivery.

Be it enacted, &c. [That the counties of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and district in Cali- San Bernardino, in the State of California, be, and they are hereby made a collection district, to be called the District of San Pedro; and San Pedro in said district, shall be, and is hereby made the port of entry for said district.]

fornia.

Abolished.

1862, ch. 92.

1850, ch. 79. Ante, p. 328.

SEC. 3. That Santa Barbara, in said district, shall remain a port of delivery therein in the same manner as it now constitutes a port of delivery in the district of San Diego.

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Stat. at Large, CHAP. CCII. — An Act to constitute Palatka and Bayport, in the State of Florida, Ports Vol. X. p. 346. of Delivery, respectively, and Keokuk and Dubuque, in the State of Iowa.

Palatka and

Be it enacted, &c. That Palatka and Bayport, in the State of Florida, Bayport, Florida, shall be, and are hereby created ports of delivery, respectively, and shall made ports of delivery. be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports of deliv

Surveyor

his salary and duties.

1831, ch. 87. Ante, p. 240.

ery in the United States and there shall be appointed a surveyor of the customs, to reside at each of said ports, who shall, in addition to his own duties, also perform the duties and receive the salary and emoluments of surveyors prescribed by the act of Congress passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, providing for the payment of duties on imported goods, at certain ports therein mentioned, the same being 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 said Palatka be made a part and annexed to the collection district of St. John's in said State; and said Bayport be made a part and annexed to the col- collection dislection district of St. Marks, in said State of Florida; and all the privi- trict of St. leges and facilities afforded to Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louis- Mark's. ville, St. Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, by the act of Congress aforesaid, be, and the same are hereby extended to the said ports of Palatka and Bayport.

Annexed to

Its privileges.

Keokuk and Dubuque, Iowa, made ports of

his duties and

SEC. 2. That Keokuk and Dubuque, in the State of Iowa, be, and hereby are, constituted ports of delivery within the collection district of New Orleans, and there shall be appointed a surveyor of the customs for delivery. each of said ports, who shall be residents thereat; said surveyors shall Surveyorperform the duties and receive the salary and emoluments prescribed by the act of Congress approved on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, 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."

salary.

1831, ch. 87. Ante, p. 240.

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Stat. at Large,

CHAP. CCXLII. · An Act making Appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic Expenses of Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hun- Vol. X. p. 546. dred and fifty-five, and for other Purposes.

First proviso of act of 1853,

SEC. 9. That the first proviso to the first section of the act entitled "An act to provide compensation to such persons as may be designated by ch. 89, 1, not the Secretary of the Treasury to receive and keep the public money, to apply to colunder the fifteenth section of the act of sixth August, eighteen hundred lector at Buffalo. and forty-six, for the additional services required under that act," approved March second, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, shall not be construed to apply to the collector of the district of Buffalo Creek, while such collector. shall be one of the designated depositors of public money.

Adjustment of accounts of pub

SEC. 10. That the accounts of the public printers, and the certificates of the superintendent of public printing thereon, shall be subject to the ex- lic printers. amination and control of the accounting officers and Secretary of the Treasury, in like manner as other public accounts.

SEC. 11. That from and after the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred Clerks of assistant treasurer and fifty-four, in lieu of the clerks heretofore authorized by law for the at New York. office of the assistant treasurer at New York, he be authorized to appoint, 1862, ch. 37. with the approbation of the President of the United States, one chief clerk at a salary of two thousand one hundred dollars, one clerk at two thousand dollars, two clerks at eighteen hundred dollars each, two clerks at fifteen hundred dollars each, one clerk at twelve hundred dollars, one messenger at nine hundred dollars, and two watchmen at five hundred and fifty dollars each, per annum. In case of the sickness or unavoidable absence from his office of the assistant treasurer, he may in his discretion authorize may act as asthe said chief clerk to act in his place, and to discharge all the duties required by law of the assistant treasurer.

SEC. 14. That whenever it shall become necessary for the head of any department or office to employ special agents, other than officers of the army or navy, who may be charged with the disbursement of public

Messenger.
Watchmen.

Chief clerk

sistant treasurer.

Special agents to give bonds.

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