SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That during the continuance of this act, no registered, or sea letter vessel, having on board goods, wares and merchandise, shall be allowed to depart from one port of the United States to any other within the same, unless the master, owner, consignee or factor of such vessel shall first give bond, with one or more sureties to the collector of the district from which she is bound to depart, in a sum of double the value of the vessel and cargo, that the said goods, wares, or merchandise shall be relanded in some port of the United States, dangers of the seas excepted, which bond, and also a certificate from the collector where the same may be relanded, shall by the collector respectively be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury. All armed vessels possessing public commissions from any foreign power, are not to be considered as liable to the embargo laid by this act. APPROVED, December 22, 1807. CHAP. VII.-An Act supplementary to an act, intituled "An act for fortifying the CHAP. VIII. An Act supplementary to the act, intituled "An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States."(a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That during the continuance of the act to which this act is a supplement, no vessel licensed for the coasting trade, shall be allowed to depart from any port of the United States, or shall receive a clearance, until the owner, consignee, agent or factor shall, with the master, give bond with one or more sureties to the United States, in a sum double the value of the vessel and cargo, that the vessel shall not proceed to any foreign port or place, and that the cargo shall be relanded in some port of the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the owner or owners of all vessels licensed for fisheries, or those bound on a whaling voyage, and having no other cargo than sea stores, salt and the usual fishing tackling and apparel, shall give a general bond, in four times the value of the vessel and cargo, that they will not, during the continuance of the above mentioned act, proceed to any foreign port or place, and will return with their fishing fare to some port or place within the United States: Provided, that it shall be lawful and shall be sufficient in the case of any licensed vessel, whose employment has uniformly been confined to rivers, bays and sounds within the jurisdiction of the United States, to give bond, in an amount equal to three hundred dollars for each ton of said vessel, with condition that such vessel shall not be employed in any foreign trade during the time limited in the condition of the bond. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any ship or vessel shall, during the continuance of the act to which this act is a supplement, (a) See notes to act of December 22, 1807, chap. 5. Forfeitures and penalties on vessels departing without a permit. not be seized the owner of the depart from any port of the United States without a clearance or permit, or if any ship or vessel shall, contrary to the provisions of this act, or of the act to which this act is a supplement, proceed to a foreign port or place, or trade with or put on board of any other ship or vessel any goods, wares or merchandise, of foreign or domestic growth or manufacture, such ships or vessels, goods, wares and merchandise shall be wholly forIf vessel shall feited, and if the same shall not be seized, the owner or owners, agent, freighter or factors of any such ship or vessel shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum equal to double the value of the ship or vessel and cargo, and shall never thereafter be allowed a credit for duties on any goods, wares or merchandise imported by him or them into any of the ports of the United States, and the master or commander of such ship or vessel, as well as all other persons who shall knowingly be concerned in such prohibited foreign voyage, shall each respectively forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty thousand, nor less than one thousand dollars, for every such offence, whether the vessel be seized and condemned or not, and the oath or affirmation of any master or commander knowingly offending against the provisions of this section, shall ever thereafter be inadmissible before any collector of the customs of the United States. vessel shall be liable for a sum equal to double the value of the ship, vessel and cargo, and master of such vessel subjected to a penalty. Provision in a former to extend only to public armed vessels, and shall not embrace privateers. Foreign ves sels prohibited from shipping specie, merchandise, &c. &c. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the exception made by the act to which this act is a supplement, in favour of armed vessels possessing public commissions from foreign powers, shall apply only to public armed vessels, and shall not be construed to embrace either privateers, vessels having letters of marque, or any other private armed vessels; but such private armed vessels shall be permitted to depart in the same manner, and on the same conditions as is provided for other private foreign ships or vessels. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any foreign ship or vessel shall, during the continuance of the act to which this act is a supplement, take on board any specie or any goods, wares, or merchandise, other than the provisions and sea stores necessary for the voyage, such ship or vessel and the specie and cargo on board shall be wholly forfeited, and be seized and condemned in any court of the United States, having may may be seized and competent jurisdiction, and every person concerned in such unlawful shipment shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, nor less than one thousand dollars for every such offence. Penalties. condemned. Distribution of forfeitures, penalties, &c. Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22. Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13. Act of Feb. 11, 1800, ch. 6. Drawbacks ed by this act. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all penalties and forfeitures incurred by force of this act shall be sued for, recovered, distributed, and accounted for in the manner prescribed, by the act, intituled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and may be mitigated or remitted in the manner prescribed by the act, intituled "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned," passed the third of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, and made perpetual by an act passed the eleventh of February one thousand eight hundred. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the time during which the act not to be affect to which this act is a supplement, shall continue in force, shall not be computed as making part of the term of twelve calendar months during which goods, wares or merchandise, imported into the United States, must be re-exported in order to be entitled to a drawback of the duties paid on the importation thereof. APPROVED, January 9, 1808. CHAP. IX.—An Act extending the right of suffrage in the Mississippi territory ; and for other purposes.(a) STATUTE I. Jan. 9, 1808. [Obsolete.] Qualifications of electors of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every free white male person in the Mississippi territory, above the age of twenty-one years, having representatives to the general been a citizen of the United States, and resident in the said territory, one assembly of the year next preceding an election of representatives, and who has a legal Mississippi teror equitable title to a tract of land, by virtue of any act of Congress, or ritory. who may become the purchaser of any tract of land from the United States of the quantity of fifty acres, or who may hold in his own right a town lot of the value of one hundred dollars within the said territory, shall be entitled to vote for representatives to the general assembly of said territory. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the general assembly of the territory aforesaid, shall have power to apportion the representatives of the several counties therein, or which may hereafter be established therein, according to the number of free white male inhabitants above the age of twenty-one years in such counties: Provided, that there be not more than twelve, nor less than ten of the whole number of representatives; any act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding, until there shall be six thousand free male white inhabitants of full age, in said territory; after which time the number of representatives shall be regulated agreeably to the ordinance for the government thereof. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the citizens of the said territory, entitled to vote for representatives to the general assembly thereof, shall, at the time of electing their representatives to the said general assembly, also elect one delegate from the said territory to the Congress of the United States, who shall possess the same powers heretofore granted to the delegates from the several territories of the United States; any thing in the ordinance for the government of said territory, to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED, January 9, 1808. CHAP. X.-An Act supplemental to an act, intituled "An act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States, south of the state of Tennessee."(b) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person and the legal representatives of every person, who being either the head of a family or above the age of twenty-one years, and who did on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, actually inhabit and cultivate a tract of land not claimed by virtue of a certificate granted by the boards of commissioners east and west of Pearl river, in the Mississippi territory, and who has obtained permission to remain on such tract or tracts of land agreeably to an act, intituled "An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States, until authorized by law," shall be entitled to a preference in becoming the purchaser from the United States of such tract of land, at the price at which the other lands of the United States in the said territory, are directed to be sold, and payment may be made therefor in the same manner, and under the same conditions as directed by law for such other lands: Provided, that such tract of land shall not exceed one section: And provided also, that the same shall be surveyed agreeably to the sectional lines already established, or which may hereafter be established by the surveyor of the lands of the United States south of the state of Tennessee. 1804, ch. 57, sec. 7. General as sembly may apportion representatives. Not more than 12 nor less than 10 representatives until there shall be six thousand free elected at the STATUTE I. Jan. 19, 1808. Actual settlers entitled to a becoming purchasers. preference in 1803, ch. 27. 1807, ch. 46. Proviso that such tract of land shall not exceed one section, and shall be surveyed agreeably to (a) By the act of March 1, 1817, chap. 23, Mississippi was admitted into the Union as a State. (b) See notes to act of March 3, 1803, chap. 27. sectional lines already established. Notice to be given by per sons claiming, under the foregoing section. Their rights otherwise forfeited. Time allowed to persons having pre-emption rights. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person claiming a tract of land by virtue of this act shall, before the first day of October next, deliver to the register of the land-office within whose district the land may be, a notice of his claim in writing, together with a plat of the tract of land claimed; and if any person shall fail to deliver such notice and plat, the person or persons so failing, shall forfeit all claim or pretension of claim to such tract of land, and the same shall be sold with the other lands of the United States in said territory. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That persons entitled to a right of pre-emption under the first section of this act, shall be allowed until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine, to make the first payment of the purchase money of such tract or tracts of land as may be claimed by virtue of said section, and the residue of the said purchase money shall be paid in the same manner, and under the same conditions as directed for the other lands in said territory. SEC. 4. And be it further cnacted, That this act shall not extend to tain other claim any person or persons claiming other lands in said territory in his or their own right, by virtue of British or Spanish grants, or to any person or persons to whom a donation has been granted, by either of the said boards of commissioners. This act not to extend to cer ants. STATUTE I. Jan. 19, 1808. [Obsolete.] Part of a for mer act revived and continued in force. Act of March 26, 1S04, ch. 46. Act of Jan. 10, 1809, ch. 7. Proviso. STATUTE I. Jan. 21, 1808. [Obsolete.] Expenses authorized by the inquiry or the managers of the impeachment of Judge Chase to be settled, and paid. Proviso. 1804, ch. 29. committee of STATUTE I. Jan. 27, 1808. [Obsolete.] Act of Feb. 20, 1804, ch. 12, APPROVED, January 19, 1808. CHAP. XI.-An Act to revive and continue in force for a further time the first section of the act, intituled "An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary powers.” Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act passed on the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, intituled "An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary powers," as is contained in the first section of the said act, be, and the same hereby is revived and continued in force, until the first day of January next: Provided however, that the additional duty laid by the said section, shall be collected on all such goods, wares and merchandise, liable to pay the same, as shall have been imported previous to that day. APPROVED, January 19, 1808. CHAP. XII.-An Act to provide for the payment of certain expenses incurred in the impeachment of Samuel Chase. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby directed to audit and settle the accounts of all persons who may have claims against the United States, for expenses incurred in the inquiry into the conduct, and in the impeachınent of Samuel Chase; which expenses may have been authorized by the committee of inquiry, or the managers of the said impeachment: Provided, that the said accounts shall have been first certified by the chairman of the said committee, or managers; and the same shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, January 21, 1808. CHAP. XIV.-An Act to continue in force for a limited time an act, intituled “An act continuing for a limited time the salaries of the officers of government therein mentioned." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act passed on the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and four, inti- continued in tuled "An act continuing for a limited time the salaries of the officers force for three of government, therein mentioned," shall be, and continue in force for years. the term of three years, and to the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, and no longer. APPROVED, January 27, 1808. CHAP. XV.-An Act authorizing the erection of a bridge over the river Potomac, within the District of Columbia. STATUTE I. Feb. 5, 1808. Names of persons constituted a board of commissioners for &c. Site of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following persons, viz: Robert Brent, Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, Thomas Monroe, James D. Barry, Frederick May, Samuel Harrison Smith, Jonah Thomp- receiving subson, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Vowell, Cuthbert Powell, Elisha Janney, scriptions, &c. and Charles Alexander, or any seven of them, be, and they are hereby constituted a board of commissioners, with full power and authority to open, or cause to be opened, books for receiving and entering subscriptions for raising a capital stock, not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, for the purpose of erecting a bridge over the river Potomac, between the city of Washington and Alexander's island, and making such other incidental works, and defray- bridge. ing such other incidental expenses, as shall be required by this act, or deemed necessary or expedient by the company herein after named; the time, place and manner of receiving and entering such subscriptions, to be ascertained by the said board of commissioners, and duly advertised in such gazettes, as they may deem expedient: Provided, that the time to be fixed upon by the said board of commissioners, for opening books for receiving the said subscriptions, shall be on or before the first Monday in July next, and that no subscription shall be received, unless the sum of ten dollars be first paid into the hands of the person authorized to receive the same, on each share subscribed for. Books to be opened before the first Monday in July, 1808. The company made a body porate. Name of the SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever nineteen hundred of the said shares shall be subscribed for, all persons who may then be, politic or coror thereafter may become, the actual holders or proprietors of shares in the said capital stock, either as subscribers for the same, or as the legal representatives, successors, or assignees of such subscribers, shall be, and they are hereby made and created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The Washington Bridge Company," and by that name may sue, and be sued, implead, and be impleaded, and do and company. suffer all acts, matters and things, which a body politic and corporate may lawfully do and suffer; and may have a common seal, and the same may break and alter at pleasure, and may make all by-laws, rules, regulations and ordinances for the good government and well being of the said company, and for carrying into effect the objects of their institution, so that such by-laws, rules, regulations or ordinances, be not repugnant to the laws of the United States, in force within the district of Columbia. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That when nineteen hundred of the said shares shall be subscribed for, as aforesaid, or as soon after as may be, the said board of commissioners shall call a meeting of the company, at the city of Washington, by public advertisement, in one or more gazettes, published in Washington, Alexandria, or Georgetown, appointing a fit and convenient time and place of meeting, for the purpose of electing five directors, a clerk and a treasurer, and such other officers, agents and servants, as the said company may think fit to appoint, and for transacting any other business in pursuance of this act and appertaining to the nature and objects of the institution of the said VOL. II.-58 2 Q Their powers, &c. &c. A meeting of the company to be advertised for choosing directors, officers, &c. &c. |