seaman dis

charged, or when a seaman or mariner, a citizen of the United States, American seashall, with his own consent,* be discharged in a foreign country, it shall men in foreign ports. be the duty of the master or commander to produce to the consul, vice- Lists of the consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, the list of his ship's ship's company to be furnished company, certified as aforesaid; and to pay to such consul, vice-consul, to the consul. commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, for every seaman or mariner Three months so discharged, being designated on such list as a citizen of the United pay for every States, three months pay, over and above the wages which may then be charged to be due to such mariner or seaman, two thirds thereof to be paid by such paid to the conconsul, or commercial agent, to each seaman or mariner so discharged, of which to be upon his engagement on board of any vessel to return to the United paid by the conStates, and the other remaining third to be retained for the purpose of sul to the seacreating a fund for the payment of the passages of seamen or mariners, Residue to be citizens of the United States, who may be desirous of returning to the retained by the United States, and for the maintenance of American seamen who may be destitute, and may be in such foreign port, and the several sums retained payment of the for such fund shall be accounted for with the treasury every six months passages of seaby the persons receiving the same.

sul, two thirds

man.

consul to create a fund for the

men to the U. States.

Consuls, &c.

destitute sea

retary of State.

hundred tons.

SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of the consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, vice-commercial agents of the United States, from time to to provide for time, to provide for the mariners and seamen of the United States, who men, &c. submay be found destitute within their districts respectively, sufficient sub- sistence and passistence and passages to some port in the United States, in the most States, subject sages to the U. reasonable manner, at the expense of the United States, subject to such to the instrucinstructions as the Secretary of State shall give; and that all masters and tions of the Seccommanders of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, and Commanders bound to some port of the same, are hereby required and enjoined to take of vessels resuch mariners or seamen on board of their ships or vessels, at the request such on board if quired to take of the said consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents or vice-commercial not more than agents respectively, and to transport them to the port in the United two to every States to which such ships or vessels may be bound, on such terms not On terms not exceeding ten dollars for each person,† as may be agreed between the exceeding ten said master and consul, or commercial agent. And the said mariners or Seamen, &c. seamen shall, if able, be bound to do duty on board such ships or vessels to do duty if according to their several abilities. Provided, that no master or captain of able. Penalty on the any ship or vessel shall be obliged to take a greater number than two men refusal of the to every one hundred tons burthen of the said ship or vessel, on any one captain or masvoyage; and if any such captain or master shall refuse the same on the ter. request or order of the consul, vice-consul, commercial agent or vice-commercial agent, such captain or master shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each mariner or seaman so refused, to be recovered for the benefit of the United States in any court of competent jurisdiction. And the certificate of any such consul or commercial agent, given under his hand and official seal, shall be prima facie evidence of such refusal in ruary 28, 1811, any court of law having jurisdiction for the recovery of the penalty aforesaid.

SEC. 5. That the seventh and eighth section of the act, intituled “ An act concerning consuls and vice-consuls," be and the same are hereby repealed..

dollars each.

Act of Feb

ch. 28.

7th and 8th

sections of the act of April 14, 1792, ch. 24, re

pealed.

SEC. 7. That if any consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, shall falsely and knowingly certify, that property belonging Consuls, &c. to foreigners is property belonging to citizens of the United States, he giving false certificates subject shall, on conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction, forfeit to fine and imand pay a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, at the discretion of the prisonment. court, and be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three years.

See act of July 20, 1840, ch. 48, § 9, and act of August 18, 1856, ch. 127, § 26. † See act of February 28, 1811, ch. 28.

No. 47.- MARCH 2, 1803.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. XVI. - An Act supplementary to the Act intituled "An Act providing Passports Vol. II. p. 208. for the Ships and Vessels of the United States."

Be it enacted, &c. That every unregistered ship or vessel owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States, and sailing with a sea letter, going to any foreign country, shall, before she departs from the United States, at the request of the master, be furnished by the collector of the district where such vessel may be, with a passport of the form prescribed and established by the act to which this is a supplement, for which the master shall pay to the collector ten dollars, and be subject to the rules and conditions prescribed in the said act, for ships and vessels of the United States.

SEC. 2. That there shall be paid on every such unregistered ship or vessel, sailing or trading to any foreign country, other than some port or place in America, for each and every voyage, the same sum at the time of clearing outwards, to be received and accounted for in the same manner as is by said act required in cases of ships and vessels of the United States.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. XVIII. Vol. II. p. 209.

Act of July

31, 1789, ch. 5. Act of Decem

ber 31, 1792, ch. 2, 1799, ch. 22.

1. Act of March

Penalty on forging sea letters, passports, &c. or using such.

Officers disqualified thereby.

A duly regis

tered vessel sold

out of the United States to a

citizen, to have the benefit of a

vessel of the U. States under certain provisions.

An Act in Addition to the Act, intituled "An Act concerning the Registering and Recording of Ships and Vessels of the United States," and to the Act, intituled "An Act to regulate the Collection of Duties on Imports and Tonnage.”

Be it enacted, &c. That if any person shall knowingly make, utter, or publish any false sea letter, Mediterranean passport, or certificate of registry, or shall knowingly avail himself of any such Mediterranean passport, sea letter, or certificate of registry, he shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, to be recovered by action of debt, in the name of the United States, in any court of competent jurisdiction; and if an officer of the United States, he shall forever thereafter be rendered incapable of holding any office of trust or profit, under the authority of the United States.

SEC. 3. That when any ship or vessel, which has been, or which shall be registered pursuant to any law of the United States, shall, whilst such ship or vessel is without the limits of the United States, be sold or transferred in whole or in part to a citizen or citizens of the said States, such ship or vessel, on her first arrival in the United States thereafter, shall be entitled to all the privileges and benefits of a ship or vessel of the United States: Provided, That all the requisites of law, in order to the registry of ships or vessels, shall be complied with, and a new certificate of registry obtained for such ship or vessel, within three days from the time at which the master or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, is required to make his final report upon her first arrival afterwards as aforesaid, agreeably to the thirtieth section of the act, passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, intituled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." And it shall be lawful to pay to the collector of the district within which such ship or vessel may arrive as aforesaid, the duties imposed by law on the tonnage of such ship or vessel, at any time within three days from the time at which the master or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, is required to make his final report as aforesaid, anything to the contrary in any former law notwithstanding: Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to repeal, or in any wise change the provisions, restrictions or limitations of any former act or acts, excepting so far as the same shall be repugnant to the provisions of this act.

SEC. 4. That the power vested in the Secretary of the Treasury, to

Treasury to re

remove disabilities incurred under the act to which this is a supplement, Power of the and under the act, intituled “An act for enrolling and licensing ships or Secretary of the vessels, to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regu- move disabilities, lating the same," shall extend to the remission of any foreign duties, extended. which shall have been or shall be incurred by reason of such disabilities.

Stat. at Large,

CHAP. XXVI. —An Act to make Beaufort and Passamaquoddy, Ports of Entry and Delivery; to make Easton and Tiverton, Ports of Delivery; and to authorize the Estab- Vol. II. p. 228. lishment of a new Collection District on Lake Ontario.

Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the last day of June next, a District of district shall be formed from the district of Newbern, in North Carolina, Beaufort formed to be called the district of Beaufort, which shall include the town of Beau- North Carolina. from Newbern, fort, and all the water and shore north and east of the said town, to Harbor Island, and all the water and shore south and west of the said town, to Dog Island, inclusive. And the town of Beaufort shall be the sole port of entry and delivery for the said district; and a collector for the said of entry. port shall be appointed, to reside and keep his office at the said town of pointed. Beaufort, who shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the fees and other emoluments established by law, the annual salary of two hundred § 12.

dollars.

Beaufort port

Collector ap

1799, ch. 22, Salary.

SEC. 2. That from and after the said thirtieth day of June, Easton, in Easton, Marythe district of Oxford, in the State of Maryland, and Tiverton, in the land, and Tiverdistrict of Newport, and State of Rhode Island, shall be ports of delivery, Island, ports of ton, Rhode and a surveyor shall be appointed to each; each of whom shall be en- delivery. titled to receive, in addition to the fees and emoluments already allowed by law, a salary of two hundred dollars per annum.

See 1822, ch. 107. § 3. Salaries. Additional

Ontario.

SEC. 3. That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to establish, when it shall appear to him to be proper, in addition to the port on Lake port of entry and delivery already established on Lake Ontario, one other 1799, ch. 22, port of entry and delivery on the said lake, or on the waters or rivers 5. emptying therein, and to appoint a collector of the customs, to reside and keep an office thereat.*

SEC. 4. That from and after the said thirtieth day of June next, such place within the district of Passamaquoddy, in the State of Massachusetts, as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct, shall be a port of entry and delivery, (at which place the collector shall reside) as well for foreign as for vessels of the United States. †

or.

With a collect

Port of entry

and delivery in Passamaquoddy, Massachusetts.

Stat. at Large,

CHAP. XIII.- An Act for laying and collecting Duties on Imports and Tonnage within the Territories ceded to the United States, by the Treaty of the thirtieth of April, one Vol. II. p. 251. thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French Republic, and for other Purposes.

Duties on im

ana as in other

Be it enacted, &c. That the same duties which by law now are, or hereafter may be laid on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the ports and tonUnited States, on the tonnage of vessels, and on the passports and clear- age in Louisiances of vessels, shall be laid and collected on goods, wares, and merchan- States. dise imported into the territories ceded to the United States, by the treaty of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French Republic; and on vessels arriving in,

The district of Sackett's Harbor was established April 25, 1805, under the authority hereby given. But the district was abolished and annexed to the district of Cape Vincent by act of 1862, ch. 87, § 2. Secretary directed Eastport to be made port under this section, June 3, 1803.

ch. 107, § 5, note.

See also act of 1822,

What laws

shall be in force there.

Act of Sept. 2, 1789, ch. 12. Act of Dec. 31, 1792, ch. 1. Act of Feb. 18, 1793, ch. 8. Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22. Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 9.

Act of March 3, 1795, ch. 48.

Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 20.

Act of May 7, 1800, ch. 45.

Act of 1797, ch. 13.

Act of April 2, 1792, ch. 16.

Act of Feb. 9, 1793, ch. 5.

All acts or of

such parts now

on imports and

force.

Vessels of that territory entitled to same benefit as of U. States

or departing from the said territories: and the following acts, that is to say, the act, intituled,

"An act to establish the treasury department."

"An act concerning the registering and recording of ships and vessels."

"An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries."

"An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage.” "An act to establish the compensations of officers employed in the collection of the duties on imports and tonnage, and for other purposes."

"An act for the more effectual recovery of debts due from individuals to the United States."

"An act to provide more effectually for the settlement of accounts between the United States and receivers of public money."

"An act to authorize the sale and conveyance of lands in certain cases, by the marshals of the United States, and to confirm former sales ;”

and

"An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned."

"An act to establish a mint and to regulate the coins of the United States."

"An act regulating foreign coins, and for other purposes."

And the act supplementary to, and amendatory of the two last-mentioned acts, or so much of the said acts as is now in force, and also so in force, or which much of any other act or acts of the United States as is now in force, may be enacted! for laying duties or may be hereafter enacted, for laying any duties on imports, tonnage, seamen or shipping, for regulating and securing the collection of the tonnage, seamen same, and for regulating the compensations of the officers employed in or shipping for the collection of the collection of the same; for granting and regulating drawbacks, bounduties, regulat ties and allowances in lieu of drawbacks; concerning the registering, ing drawbacks recording, enrolling and licensing of ships and vessels; to provide for and enrolling vessels to be in the settlement of accounts between the United States and individuals; for the recovery of debts due to the United States; and for remitting forfeitures, penalties and disabilities, shall extend to, and have full force and effect in the above-mentioned territories: [Provided, however, and it is hereby further enacted, That ships or vessels, which on the twentieth day of December last, were owned by persons then residing in the abovementioned territories, and who, either were citizens of the United States, or had resided in the said territories, during five years next preceding, shall be entitled to the benefits and privileges of ships or vessels of the United States, whilst they shall continue to be wholly owned by such But shall reg- persons, or by citizens of the United States: Provided, nevertheless, That the persons claiming such privileges for their ships or vessels, shall in every other respect, comply with the provisions of the acts for registering, recording, enrolling and licensing of ships or vessels, and who, if not citizens of the United States, shall have previously taken an oath of allegiance to the United States, which oath the collector of the port is hereby authorized to administer.]

which were owned on the 20th December, 1803, &c.

ister and take

oath of alle

giance.

Other acts ex

ana.

SEC. 2. [That so much of any act or acts of the United States, now in tended to Louisi- force, or which may be hereafter enacted, concerning the Bank of the United States, and for the punishment of frauds committed on the same ;] for the relief of sick and disabled seamen; for the protection of American seamen; for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchant service; and for preventing the exportation of goods not duly inspected; shall extend to and have full force and effect in the above-mentioned territories.

Certain acts relating to seamen and for protecting the exportation of goods not inspected, extended to Louisiana.

SEC. 3. That so much of any law or laws, laying any duties on the importation into the United States of goods, wares and merchandise from

consistent with

the said territories (or allowing drawbacks on the importation of the same Commercial from the United States to the said territories), or respecting the commer- regulations incial intercourse between the United States and the said territories, or be- the provisions of tween the several parts of the United States through the said territories, the second section repealed. which is inconsistent with the provisions of the preceding section, be, and the same hereby is repealed; and all duties on the exportation of goods, wares and merchandise from the said territories, as well as all duties on the importation of goods, wares and merchandise into the said territories, on the transfer of ships or vessels, and on the tonnage of vessels, other than those laid by virtue of the laws of the United States, shall, from the time when this act shall commence to be in force, cease and determine: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained, shall be construed to affect the fees and other charges usually paid in the said territories on account of pilotage, wharfage, or the right of anchoring by the levy of the city of New Orleans, which several fees and charges shall, until otherwise directed, continue to be paid and applied to the same purposes as heretofore.

Fees, &c. usulotage, wharfage, ally paid for pi&c. not affected.

District of Mis

entry.

SEC. 4. That, to the end that the laws providing for the collection of the duties imposed, by law, on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and the laws respecting the revenue and navigation of the United States, may be carried into effect within the said territories, the territories ceded to the Territory anUnited States by the treaty above mentioned, and also all the navigable nexed to the waters, rivers, creeks, bays, and inlets, lying within the United States, sissippi. which empty into the Gulf of Mexico, east of the river Mississippi, shall See 1844, ch. 51, § 3. be annexed to the Mississippi district, and shall, together with the same, constitute one district, to be called the "District of Mississippi." The city of New Orleans * shall be the sole port of entry in the said district, New Orleans and the town of Bayou St. John shall be a port of delivery, a collector, the sole port of naval officer, and surveyor shall be appointed to reside at New Or- Officers to be leans, and a surveyor shall be appointed to reside at the port of Bayou St. appointed by the John; and the President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint, not exceeding three surveyors, to reside at such other places within the said district, as he shall deem expedient, and to constitute each, or either of such places ports of delivery only. And so much of any law or laws, as establishes a district on the river Mississippi, south of the ch. 22. river Tennessee, is hereby repealed, except as to the recovery and re- laws which esceipt of such duties on goods, wares and merchandise, and on the tonnage tablish a district of ships or vessels, as shall have accrued, and as to the recovery and dis- on the river Mississippi south of tribution of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, which shall have been incurred the Tennessee before the commencement of the operation of this act.

President of the

U. States.

Act of 1799,

Repeal of any

river.

District of

SEC. 5. That the shores and waters of the town of Natchez, † shall be one district, to be called the district of Natchez, and a collector shall be Natchez, officer appointed who shall reside at Natchez, which shall be the only port of there. entry or delivery within the said district, of any goods, wares and merchandise, not the growth or manufacture of the United States: Provided, nevertheless, That it shall be the duty of every master or commander of any ship or vessel destined for the said port of Natchez, to stop at New Orleans, and there deliver to the collector of said port a manifest of the at New Orleans, cargo on board such ship or vessel agreeably to law, on penalty of five thou- manifest of their sand dollars. And it shall be the duty of the said collector to transmit a cargo. certified copy of such manifest to the collector of the said port of Natchez,

Ships to stop

and deliver a

and to direct an inspector to go on board such ship or vessel, and proceed 1807, ch. 14. therewith to the port of Natchez, and there report such ship or vessel to

the collector of said port of Natchez, immediately after his arrival, when

the duty of said inspector shall cease.

See acts of February 9, 1837, ch. 12, September 16, 1850, ch. 53, and February 13, 1854, ch. 13. † See acts of February 13, 1807, ch. 14, § 4, and June 30, 1834, ch. 135, § 1.