Stat. at Large, CHAP. III. — An Act to change the Name of the District of Biddeford and Pepperel borough, in Massachusetts, to that of Saco.

Vol. II. p. 451.

Act of March

2, 1799, ch. 22, § 2.

substituted for that of Bidde

Be it enacted, &c. That the district, at present called the district of BidName of Saco deford and Pepperelborough, in Massachusetts, shall in future be called the district of Saco, and that the collector of the said district, be permitted to reside in Saco or Biddeford, and that all the provisions of the several acts of Congress, that relate to the district of Biddeford and Pepperelreside at Saco. borough, shall be, and the same are hereby continued in full force, with respect to the district of Saco.

ford, &c. &c.

Collector to

Stat. at Large,

Vol. II. p. 484.

No member of

Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the passage of this act, no memCongress to have ber of Congress shall, directly or indirectly, himself, or by any other perany public con- son whatsoever, in trust for him, or for his use or benefit, or on his account, tract, under the authority of the undertake, execute, hold or enjoy, in the whole or in part, any contract U. States, direct- or agreement hereafter to be made or entered into with any officer ly or indirectly. of the United States, in their behalf, or with any person authorized to

Penalty of three thousand

dollars.

make contracts on the part of the United States; and if any member of Congress shall, directly or indirectly, himself, or by any other person whatsoever, in trust for him, or for his use or benefit, or on his account, enter into, accept of, agree for, undertake or execute any such contract or agreement, in the whole, or in part, every member so offending, shall, for every such offence, upon conviction thereof, before any court of the United States, or of the territories thereof, having cognizance of such offence, be adjudged guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined three thousand dollars; and every such contract or agreement as aforesaid shall moreover be absolutely void and of no effect: Provided, nevertheless, That made by the U. in all cases where any sum or sums of money shall have been advanced on the part of the United States, in consideration of any such contract or agreement, the same shall be forthwith repaid; and in case of refusal or delay to repay the same, when demanded, by the proper officer of the department under whose authority such contract or agreement shall have been made or entered into, every person so refusing or delaying, together with his surety or sureties, shall be forthwith prosecuted at law for the recovery of any such sum or sums of money advanced as aforesaid.

Advances

States to be re

paid.

Provisions of this act not to extend to incor

porated compa

nies, or to bills

of exchange ne

gotiated by members of Congress.

Members of Congress to be excepted by particular

clauses from participation in

public contracts, &c. &c.

on officers mak

SEC. 2. That nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to extend to any contract or agreement, made or entered into, or accepted, by any incorporated company, where such contract or agreement shall be made for the general benefit of such incorporation or company; nor to the purchase or sale of bills of exchange or other property by any member of Congress, where the same shall be ready for delivery, and for which payment shall be made at the time of making or entering into the contract or agreement.

SEC. 3. That in every such contract or agreement to be made or entered into, or accepted as aforesaid, there shall be inserted an express condition that no member of Congress shall be admitted to any share or part of such contract or agreement, or to any benefit to arise thereupon.

SEC. 4. That if any officer of the United States, on behalf of the United States, shall directly or indirectly make or enter into any contract, barPenalties up gain, or agreement, in writing or otherwise, other than such as are herein ing public con- excepted, with any member of Congress, such officer so offending, on contracts with mem-viction thereof before any court having jurisdiction thereof, shall be bers of Congress. deemed and taken to be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and be fined in a

sum of three thousand dollars.

War, &c. to

SEC. 5. That from and after the passing of this act it shall be the duty Secretary of of the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Secretary of the the Treasury, Navy, and the Postmaster-General annually, to lay before Congress, a make to Constatement of all the contracts which have been made in their respective gress, annual departments, during the year preceding such report, exhibiting in such statements of statement the name of the contractor, the article or thing contracted for, by their departthe place where the article was to be delivered, or the thing performed, ments. the sum to be paid for its performance or delivery, the date and duration of the contract.

contracts made

No. 73.- APRIL 21, 1808.

Stat. at Large,

Vol. II. p. 489.

CHAP. LI.- An Act to continue in Force an Act intituled "An Act to extend Jurisdiction in certain Cases to State Judges and State Courts; and for other Purposes." Be it enacted, &c. That the act, intituled "An act to extend jurisdiction Act of March in certain cases to State judges and State courts," passed the eighth day of 8, 1806, ch. 14, March, one thousand eight hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby continued in force without limitation of time.

SEC. 2. That the several provisions of the above-mentioned act, intituled "An act to extend jurisdiction in certain cases to State judges and State courts," be, and the same are hereby extended to the respective county courts within, or next adjoining the revenue districts in the State of Ohio on Lake Erie, and to the district attorney of the United States for the district of Ohio.

No. 74.- APRIL 25, 1808.

CHAP. LXI. — An Act to make Plymouth, in North Carolina, a Port of Entry; to change the Name of the District of Nanjemoy to that of St. Mary's, and to make Augusta, in the District of Maine, a Port of Delivery.

continued in

force without

limitation.

Stat. at Large, Vol. II. p. 497.

Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.

"District of Plymouth formed

out of that of Edenton.

entry, &c.

Be it enacted, &c. That a district shall be formed out of the district of Edenton, in North Carolina, to be called the district of Plymouth, which shall include and comprehend the rivers Roanoak and Cashie, and all the waters, creeks, and harbors belonging thereto. The town of Plymouth Plymouth shall be the port of entry and delivery; and Windsor and Skewarky, made the port of ports of delivery. A collector for the district shall be appointed, to re-⚫ See 1822, ch. side and keep his office at the town of Plymouth, who shall be entitled to 107, § 4. receive three per cent. commissions on all moneys by him received on account of the duties arising on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the said district, and on the tonnage of ships and vessels and the other emoluments and fees of office established by law.

Name of dis

SEC. 2. That the district of Nanjemoy, in the State of Maryland, shall be called the district of St. Mary's, and the collector shall reside at St. trict of Nanjemoy changed to Mary's river, which shall be the port of entry and delivery for said that of St. Madistrict.

ry's.

No. 75.- MARCH 3, 1809.

CHAP. XXVIII. — An Act further to amend the several Acts for the Establishment and

Regulation of the Treasury, War and Navy Departments.

Stat. at Large, Vol. II. p. 535.

Purchases and

contracts, how

to be made, &c. &c.

SEC. 5. That all purchases and contracts for supplies or services which are or may, according to law, be made by or under the direction of either the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, or the Secretary of the Navy, shall be made either by open purchase, or by previously advertising for proposals respecting the same: And an annual statement of all such contracts and purchases, and also of the expenditure of the moneys appropriated for the contingent expenses of the military establish- purchases to be ment, for the contingent expenses of the navy of the United States, and laid before Con

An annual statement of contracts and

gress at the be- for the discharge of miscellaneous claims not otherwise provided for, and ginning of each paid at the treasury, shall be laid before Congress at the beginning of each year, by the secretary of the proper department.

year.

Stat. at Large,. CHAP. XIX. - An Act to prevent the Issuing of Sea Letters except to certain Vessels.

Vol. II. p. 568.

To what ves

sels sea letters, &c. &c. may be granted, after June 30, 1810.

Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the thirtieth of June next, no sea letter or other document certifying or proving any ship or vessel to be the property of a citizen or citizens of the United States, shall be issued except to ships or vessels duly registered, or enrolled and licensed as ships or vessels of the United States, or to vessels which at that time shall be wholly owned by citizens of the United States, and furnished with or entitled to sea letters or other custom-house documents, any law or laws heretofore passed to the contrary notwithstanding.

Stat. at Large, Vol. II. p. 578.

All goods imported into Bosport which shall be conveyed by Rhode Island bridge and Taunton, or exported by the

ton and New

same routes

from Boston,

CHAP. XXIX. - An Act to allow the Benefit of Drawback on Merchandise transported by Land Conveyance from Newport to Boston, and from Boston to Newport, in like Manner as if the Same were transported Coastwise.

Be it enacted, &c. That all goods, wares and merchandise, duly imported into either of the ports of Boston and Newport, which shall be transported by land conveyance from the port of Newport, by the way of Rhode Island bridge and Taunton, to Boston; or from Boston, by the same route, to Newport, and which being imported into Newport, shall be exported from Boston: or which being imported into Boston shall be exported from Newport, shall be entitled to the benefit of a drawback of the duties upon exportation, to any foreign port or place, under the same provisions, shall be entitled regulations, restrictions and limitations, as if the said goods, wares and to the benefit of merchandise were transported coastwise from one to another of the said on exportation districts; and on the proviso that all the provisions, regulations, limitato a foreign port. tions and restrictions existing in the case of goods, wares and merchandise, transported by any of the routes mentioned in the seventy-ninth section of the act, entituled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," passed the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, shall be duly observed.

a drawback up

Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.

No. 78. - MAY 1, 1810.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. XLIV. — An Act fixing the Compensation of public Ministers, and of Consuls reVol. II. p. 608. siding on the Coast of Barbary, and for other Purposes.

Annual settle

ments to be

made of moneys drawn for for

The President

SEC. 3. That where any sum or sums of money shall be drawn from the treasury, under any law making appropriation for the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, the eign intercourse. President shall be, and he hereby is authorized to cause the same to be to give a certifi- duly settled annually, with the accounting officers of the treasury, in the manner following, that is to say: By causing the same to be accounted for specially, in all instances wherein the expenditure thereof may in his judgment be made public, and by making a certificate of the amount of such expenditures as he may think it advisable not to specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum or sums therein expressed to have been expended.

cate of the amount of expenditures from the contingent fund.

No. 79. FEBRUARY 28, 1811.

CHAP. XXVIII. An Act in Addition to the Act entituled "An Act supplementary to Stat. at Large, the Act concerning Consuls and Vice-Consuls," and for the further Protection of Ameri- Vol. II. p. 651. can Seamen.

Be it enacted, &c. That in all cases where distressed mariners and seamen of the United States have been transported from foreign ports where there was no consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice commercial agent of the United States, to ports of the United States; and in all cases where they shall hereafter be so transported, there shall be allowed to the master or owner of each vessel, in which they shall or may have been transported, such reasonable compensation, in addition to the allowance now fixed by law, as shall be deemed equitable by the comptroller of the treasury.

No. 80.- MARCH 2, 1811.

CHAP. XXXI. An Act to establish the Districts of Mumphreymagog, of Oswegatchie, and of the White Mountains.

Be it enacted, &c. That all that part of the State of Vermont, lying east of lake Mumphreymagog, and including also all such shores and waters of the said lake, as lie within the said State, shall constitute a district, to be called the district of Mumphreymagog;

SEC. 2. That all the shores and waters of the river St. Lawrence, which lie in the State of New York, east of the western boundary of the county of St. Lawrence, and west of the western boundary of the collection district of Champlain, shall constitute a district to be called the district of Oswegatchie, of which Ogdenburgh shall be the sole port of entry, and a collector for the said district shall be appointed to reside at Ogdenburgh. And the President of the United States is authorized to establish another place in the said district to be a port of delivery only; and a surveyor shall be appointed to reside at such port of delivery.

Act of April 14, 1792, ch. 24. Act of Feb.

28, 1803, ch. 9.

Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 40.

Stat. at Large, Vol. II. p. 655.

Mumphreymagog district es

tablished.

Oswegatchie district established.

White Moun

tablished.

SEC. 3. That all that part of the State of New Hampshire which lies adjacent to the northern boundary of the United States, and north of tains district esforty-four degrees thirty minutes north latitude, shall from and after the 1822, ch. 107, first day of April next, constitute a district to be called the district of § 1. White Mountains "; the President of the United States is authorized to establish a place in the said district to be the port of entry; and a collector shall be appointed to reside at the said place.

Port of entry

Vermont may be

SEC. 4. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to alter the place which had heretofore been designated to be for district of the port of entry for the district of Vermont, and to establish another place altered. to be such port of entry.

SEC. 5. That ✶ ✶✶✶ the surveyor to be appointed for the district of Oswegatchie shall receive, in addition to the fees allowed by law, a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars a year.

Compensation of Oswegatchie.

of the surveyor

Stat. at Large,

CHAP. XXXIII. - An Act to annex a Part of the State of New Jersey to the Collection District of New York; to remove the Office of Collector of Niagara to Lewistown; Vol. II. p. 657. to make Cape St. Vincent, in the District of Sacket's Harbor, a Port of Delivery; and out of the Districts of Miami and Mississippi to make two new Districts, to be called the Districts of Sandusky and Teche; and for other Purposes,

Be it enacted, &c. That all that part of the State of New Jersey, which lies north and east of Elizabethtown and Staten Island, be, and the same is hereby annexed to the district of New York.†

Part of the

State of New
Jersey added to
the district of
New York.

Annexed to district of Vermont by act of 1822, ch. 107, § 1. The residue of this section was repealed by act of 1844, ch. 51, 5 Stat. 664. See also act of June 30, 1834, constituting the district of Newark, ch. 135, 4 Stat. 715, § 9.

District of

Sandusky.

1805, ch. 34.

Collector's office in Buffalo. 1799, ch. 22,

sec. 2.

Vessels from or beyond the Cape of Good Hope may enter at Plymouth.

District of Teche estab

lished.

SEC. 2. That all that part of the Miami district, lying east of the western cape of Sandusky bay, shall be a district, to be called the district of Sandusky; and the President is hereby authorized to designate such place in the district of Sandusky, as he shall judge expedient, to be the port of entry of the said district; and a collector for the said district shall be appointed to reside at the port of entry.

SEC. 4. That **** the office of the collector of the customs, for the district of Buffaloe creek, shall be kept at such place or places in the town of Buffaloe as the President of the United States shall designate.

SEC. 5. That ships or vessels, arriving from and after the first day of May next from the Cape of Good Hope, or from any place beyond the same, shall be admitted to make entry at Plymouth and Nantucket ports of entry in the State of Massachusetts.

SEC. 7. That all that part of the collection district of Mississippi, which includes the waters of the river Teche, and all the shores, bays and 1834, ch. 128. rivers, west of the Atchafalaya, be, and the same is hereby established as a new district, to be called the district of Teche; and that a collector be appointed to reside at the port of entry.

Surveyor to be appointed, to reside at the

mouth of Rappahannock. Compensations of the collectors

and surveyors. 1799, ch. 22.

Stat. at Large, Vol. II. p. 694. Steamboats belonging to aliens, to be enrolled and licensed.

SEC. 8. That a surveyor be appointed to reside at or near the mouth of the Rappahannock river, at such place as the President of the United States shall designate.

SEC. 9. That the several collectors and surveyors, who may be appointed by virtue of this act, and whose salaries are not fixed by a preceding section, shall, in addition to the fees and commissions authorized by law, receive respectively the same annual salary which by law is allowed to the collectors and surveyors of the districts bordering on Lake Erie.

CHAP. XL.

No. 82. MARCH 12, 1812.

·An Act respecting the Enrolling and Licensing of Steamboats. Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the passing of this act, a steamboat employed, or intended to be employed only in a river or bay of the United States, owned wholly or in part by an alien, resident within the United States, may, and shall be enrolled and licensed, as if the same belonged to a citizen of the United States, according to, and subject to all the conAct of Feb. 18, ditions, limitations and provisions contained in the act, entituled "An act 1793, ch. 8. for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same," except that, in such case, no oath or affirmation shall be required that the said boat belongs to a citizen or citizens of the United States.

Owners of such boats to give bonds, &c.

SEC. 2. That the owner or owners of such steamboat, upon application for enrolment or license, shall give bond to the collector of the district, to and for the use of the United States, in the penalty of one thousand dollars, with sufficient surety, conditioned, that the said boat shall not be employed in other waters than the rivers and bays of the United States.

No. 83. - MARCH 3, 1813.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. XLII.— An Act for the Regulation of Seamen on Board the public and private Vol. II. p. 809. Vessels of the United States.

Lists of crews

to be furnished

and certified previously to sailing of vessels.

SEC. 3. That in all cases of private vessels of the United States sailing from a port in the United States to a foreign port, the list of the crew, made as heretofore directed by law, shall be examined by the collector for the district from which the vessel shall clear out, and, if approved of by him, shall be certified accordingly. And no person shall be admitted or employed as aforesaid, on board of any vessel aforesaid, unless his name shall have been entered in the list of the crew, approved and certified by