in force. ported in British States, contrary to the provisions of the convention between the United vessels no longer States and his Britannic majesty, the ratifications whereof were mutually exchanged the twenty-second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, be, from and after the date of the ratification of the said convention, and during the continuance thereof, deemed and taken to be of no force or effect. No. 91.- - APRIL 24, 1816. Stat. at Large, CHAP. LXXI. - An Act concerning the Entry of Vessels at the Ports of Middletown Vol. III. p. 299. and Plymouth. Entry of vessels at Middletown and Plymouth. Be it enacted, &c. That it shall be lawful to make entry of foreign ships or vessels, and of cargoes which may be on board the same, and to unlade such cargoes respectively, or any part thereof, at the port of Middletown, in the State of Connecticut, and at Plymouth, in the State of North Carolina, under the regulations in such cases by law provided. Stat. at Large, CHAP. LXXXI. Vol. III. p. 302. Bayou St. John a port of entry. No. 92. APRIL 26, 1816. - An Act establishing a Port of Delivery at the Town of the Bayou St. John. Be it enacted, &c. That the town of the Bayou St. John, in the State of Louisiana, shall be a port of delivery; that a surveyor shall be appointed to reside at said port; that all ships and vessels bound to said port shall, after proceeding thereto, and making report and entry at the port of New Orleans, within the time limited by law, be permitted to unlade their cargoes at the said town of the Bayou St. John, or at the basin of the canal of Carondelet, adjoining the city of New Orleans, under the rules and regulations prescribed by law. SEC. 2. That so much of the sixth section of the act of Congress, passed on the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and Act of Feb. four, entitled "An act for laying and collecting duties on imports and ton24, 1804, ch. 13. nage, within 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between the United States and the French republic, and for other purposes," as is contrary to this act, is hereby repealed. Stat. at Large, CHAP. XCV.-An Act to increase the Compensations now allowed by Law to Inspectors, Vol. III. p. 306. Measurers, Weighers and Gaugers, employed in the Collection of the Customs. Increase of 2, 1799, ch. 28. Be it enacted, &c. That an addition of fifty per cent. upon the sums alinspectors' com- lowed as compensation to inspectors, or persons acting as occasional inpensation. Act of March spectors, employed in aid of the customs, and to the measurers, weighers or gaugers, by the act, entitled "An act to establish the compensations of the officers employed in the collection of the duties on imposts and tonnage, and for other purposes," passed on the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, be, and the same is hereby allowed, to the said inspectors, measurers, weighers, or gaugers, to be ascertained, certified and paid, under the regulations prescribed in the above-mentioned act. L VI-RESOLUTION requiring the Secretary of State to compile and print, once in every Stat. at Large, two Years, a Register of all Officers and Agents, civil, military and naval in the Ser- Vol. III. p. 342. rices of the United States. State. Resolved, &c. That once in two years, a register, containing correct lists Register of the List of the ships and vessels of the United 2. That the Secretary of the Navy subjoin to the list of the persons 3. That five hundred copies of the said register be printed; and that No. 95. - JANUARY 14, 1817. CHAP. III. — An Act supplementary to an Act to regulate the Duties on Imports and Distribution. Stat. at Large, Vol. III. p. 344. Tonnage du ties to be the same as by the Be it enacted, &c. That the tonnage duties to be paid by ships or vessels which shall be entered in the United States, excepting only such foreign ships or vessels as shall be entered from any foreign port or place to or act of 20th July, with which vessels of the United States are not ordinarily permitted to go 1790, ch. 30, exand trade, shall be the same as are provided by the act, entitled "An act April 27, 1816, cept, &c. Act of imposing duties on the tonnage of ships or vessels," passed on the twen- ch. 107. tieth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety: Provided, always, That nothing in this act contained shall be deemed in any wise to impair any rights and privileges which have been Proviso: as to or may be acquired by any foreign nation under the laws and treaties of treaty rights, the United States relative to the duty on tonnage of vessels. Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 109. &c. No. 96. MARCH 1, 1817. CHAP. XXI. -An Act authorizing Vessels departing from the Town of Bayou St. John Stat. at Large and Busin of the Canal de Carondelet, for foreign Ports, to clear out at the Custom House Vol. III. p. 347. in the City of New Orleans. Be it enacted, &c. That all ships or vessels, about to depart for foreign Vessels deports or places, from the town of Bayou St. John, or Basin of the Canal parting for foreign ports de Carondelet, shall be permitted to clear out, with their cargoes, at the from Bayou St. Custom House, in the city of New Orleans, and depart, under the same John permitted to clear out at New Orleans, &c. Stat. at Large, Vol. III. p. 351. Restriction of importations to vessels of a particular char acter. rules, regulations, and restrictions, and in every respect in the same manner, as vessels clearing out and departing, for foreign ports, from the said city of New Orleans, by the way of the Mississippi river. CHAP. XXXI. No. 97. MARCH 1, 1817. · An Act concerning the Navigation of the United States. Be it enacted, &c. That *** no goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be imported into the United States from any foreign port or place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such foreign vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of that country of which the goods are the growth, production, or manufacture; or from which such goods, wares, or merchandise, can only be, or most usually are, first shipped for transProviso: the portation: Provided, nevertheless, That this regulation shall not extend to regulation not to the vessels of any foreign nation which has not adopted, and which shall extend to foreign not adopt, a similar regulation. vessels of a certain description. Merchandise imported con trary to this act, vessel, &c. for feited. Regulations with respect to importation of goods from one port of the United States to another, &c. See act of July 18, 1866, ch. 201, § 20. Regulations in another State. SEC. 2. That all goods, wares, or merchandise, imported into the United States contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, and the ship or vessel wherein the same shall be imported, together with her cargo, tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States; and such goods, wares, or merchandise, ship, or vessel, and cargo, shall be liable to be seized, prosecuted, and condemned, in like manner, and under the same regulations, restrictions, and provisions, as have been heretofore established for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission, of forfeitures to the United States by the several revenue laws. SEC. 4. That no goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be imported, under penalty of forfeiture thereof, from one port of the United States to another port of the United States, in a vessel belonging wholly or in part to a subject of any foreign power; but this clause shall not be construed to prohibit the sailing of any foreign vessel from one to another port of the United States, provided no goods, wares, or merchandise, other than those imported in such vessel from some foreign port, and which shall not have been unladen, shall be carried from one port or place to another in the United States. SEC. 5. That *** there shall be a paid duty of fifty cents per ton in relation to upon every ship or vessel of the United States, which shall be entered in tonnage duty on vessels entering a district in one State from a district in another State, except it be an adfrom a district in joining State on the sea coast, or on a navigable river or lake, and except one to a district also it be a coasting vessel going from Long Island, in the State of New 1831, ch. 219, York, to the State of Rhode Island, or from the State of Rhode Island to § 1. 1862, ch. the said Long Island, having on board goods, wares, and merchandise, 163, 15. 1864, taken in one State, to be delivered in another State: Provided, That it Proviso: as to shall not be paid on any ship or vessel having a license to trade between licensed vessels. the different districts of the United States, or to carry on the bank or whale fisheries, more than once a year. ch. 170. Stat. at Large, CHAP. XL. Vol. III. p. 362. Act of Feb. No. 98. MARCH 3, 1817. - An Act authorizing the Deposit of the Papers of foreign Vessels, with the Consul of their respective Nations. Be it enacted, &c. That the register, or other document in lieu thereof, to26, 1803, ch. 9. gether with the clearance and other papers, granted by the officers of the Ships' papers to be produced customs to any foreign ship or vessel, at her departure from the port or to the collector place from which she may have arrived, shall, previous to entry in any before entry. port of the United States, be produced to the collector with whom such The papers to entry is to be made. And it shall be the duty of the master or combe deposited with mander, within forty-eight hours after such entry, to deposit the said the consul of the hours. Fine in case papers with the consul or vice-consul of the nation to which the vessel nation within belongs, and to deliver to the collector the certificate of such consul or forty-eight vice-consul, that the said papers have been so deposited; and any master, or commander, as aforesaid, who shall fail to comply with this regulation, shall, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in a sum not less than five hundred dollars, nor exceeding two thousand dollars; Provided, That this act shall not extend to the vessels of foreign nations in whose ports American consuls are not permitted to tions in whose have the custody and possession of the register and other papers of vesports American sels entering the ports of such nation, according to the provisions of the consuls are not second section of the act supplementary to the act "concerning consuls allowed to have "custody of paand vice-consuls, and for the further protection of American seamen,' pers according passed the twenty-eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and to the act menthree. of non-compliance. Proviso; as to foreign na tioned. 1803, ch. 9. Consul not to SEC. 2. That it shall not be lawful for any foreign consul to deliver to the master or commander of any foreign vessel the register and other deliver the papapers deposited with him pursuant to the provisions of this act, until such pers to the master until he promaster or commander shall produce to him a clearance in due form from duces a clearthe collector of the port where such vessel has been entered; and any ance. consul offending against the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction Consuls ofthereof before the Supreme Court of the United States, be fined at the fending to be discretion of the court in a sum not less than five hundred dollars, nor exceeding five thousand dollars. CHAP. XLV.- An Act to provide for the prompt Settlement of Public Accounts. Be it enacted, &c. That ** the offices of accountant and additional accountant of the Department of War, the office of accountant of the navy, and the office of superintendent general of military supplies, be, and they are hereby abolished. fined. Stat. at Large, Vol. III. p. 366. Certain offices abolished. All accounts SEC. 2. That ** all claims and demands whatever, by the United States or against them, and all accounts whatever, in which the United to be settled in the Treasury States are concerned, either as debtors or as creditors, shall be settled and Department. adjusted in the Treasury Department. SEC. 3. That in addition to the officers in the Treasury Department, already established by law, there shall be the following officers, namely, four auditors and one comptroller. Four auditors and one comp troller additional, in the Treas Duty of the Duty of the Duty of the SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of the first auditor to receive all ac- ury Department. counts accruing in the Treasury Department, and, after examination, to first auditor. certify the balance and transmit the accounts, with the vouchers and certificate to the first comptroller for his decision thereon; that it shall be second auditor. the duty of the second auditor to receive all accounts relative to the pay third auditor. and clothing of the army, the subsistence of officers, bounties, and premiums, military and hospital stores, and the contingent expenses of the War Department; that it shall be the duty of the third auditor to receive all accounts relative to the subsistence of the army, the quartermaster's department, and generally all accounts of the War Department other than those provided for; and it shall be the duty of the fourth auditor to receive all accounts accruing in the navy department, or relative thereto, and the second, third, and fourth auditors, aforesaid, shall examine the accounts respectively, and certify the balance, and transmit the accounts, with the vouchers and certificate, to the second comptroller for his decision thereon; and it shall be the duty of the fifth auditor to receive all ac- Duty of the counts accruing in, or relative to, the Department of State, the General fifth auditor. Post-Office, and those arising out of Indian affairs, and examine the same, and thereafter certify the balance, and transmit the accounts, with the vouchers and certificate, to the first comptroller for his decision thereon: Provided, That the President of the United States may assign to the Duty of the fourth auditor. Proviso; as to second or third auditor the settlement of the accounts which are now conthe accounts of fided to the additional accountant of the War Department. the additional accountant. of the auditors. SEC. 5. That it shall be the duty of the auditors, charged with the exFurther duties amination of the accounts of the War and Navy Departments, to keep all accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the public money in regard to those departments, and of all debts due to the United States on moneys advanced relative to those departments; to receive from the second comptroller the accounts which shall have been finally adjusted, and to preserve such accounts, with their vouchers and certificates, and to record all warrants drawn by the secretaries of those departments, the examination of the accounts of which has been assigned to them by the preceding section. And it shall be the duty of the said auditors to make such reports on the business assigned to them, as the Secretaries of the War and Navy Departments may deem necessary, and require, for the services of those departments. Auditors to report to the SEC. 6. That the said auditors shall annually, on the first Monday in Secretary of the November, report to the Secretary of the Treasury the application of the money appropriated for the military and naval departments, for the preceding year, which shall be laid before Congress by him, with the annual statement of the public expenditure. Treasury. The treasurer to disburse all SEC. 7. That the Treasurer of the United States shall disburse all such moneys ordered moneys as shall have been previously ordered for the use of the War and Navy Departments by warrants from the treasury, which disbursements shall be made pursuant to warrants drawn by the Secretary of the War and Navy Departments respectively, countersigned by the second comptroller, and registered by the auditors respectively. for the use of the War and Navy Departments, &c. Duty of the SEC. 8. That it shall be the duty of the first comptroller to examine first comptroller. all accounts settled by the first and fifth auditors, and certify the balances arising thereon to the register; to countersign all warrants drawn by the Secretary of the Treasury, which shall be warranted by law; to report to the secretary the official forms to be issued in the different offices for collecting the public revenue, and the manner and form of keeping and stating the accounts of the several persons employed therein; he shall also superintend the preservation of the public accounts, subject to his revision, and provide for the regular payment of all moneys which may be collected. Duty of the second comp troller. First comp SEC. 9. That it shall be the duty of the second comptroller to examine all accounts settled by the second, third, and fourth auditors, and certify the balances arising thereon to the secretary of the department in which the expenditure has been incurred; to countersign all warrants drawn by the Secretaries of the War and Navy Departments, which shall be warranted by law; to report to the said secretaries the official forms to be issued in the different offices for disbursing the public money in those departments, and the manner and form of keeping, and stating, the accounts of the persons employed therein; and it shall also be his duty to superintend the preservation of the public accounts subject to his revision. SEC. 10. That it shall be the duty of the first comptroller to superintroller to super- tend the recovery of all debts to the United States; to direct suits and legal proceedings, and to take all such measures as may be authorized by the laws, to enforce prompt payment of all debts to the United States. intend the recovery of all debts, &c. Act of May 7, 1822, ch. 90. The provision contained in the second section of the act of SEC. 11. That the provision contained in the second section of the act, passed the third March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide more effectually for the settlement of accounts between the United States and receivers of public money," which directs March 3, 1797, that in every case where suit has been, or shall be, instituted, a transcript ch. 20, extended, in regard to the' from the books and proceedings of the treasury, certified by the register, accounts of the shall be admitted as evidence, be extended, in regard to the accounts of War and Navy the War and Navy Departments, to the auditors respectively charged with the examination of those accounts, and that certificates, signed by Departments, &c. |