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which oath so modified shall in each case be taken on the entry of one or more packages contained in an original package. But nothing in this act contained shall be construed to relieve the importer, consignee, or agent from producing the oath of the owner or ultimate consignee in every case, now required by law; or to provide that an importation may consist of less than the whole number of parcels contained in any packed package, or packed packages consigned in one vessel at one time, to one importer, consignee, or agent.

2092. SEC. 3. All provisions of law inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

JUNE 20, 1876.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XIX, p. 60.)

CHAP. 136. An Act relating to the execution of custom-house bonds.

2093. When any bond is required by law to be executed by any firm or partnership for the payment of duties upon goods, wares or merchandise, imported into the United States by such firm or partnership, the execution of such bond by any member of such firm or partnership, in the name of said firm or partnership, shall bind the other members or partners thereof, in like manner and to the same extent, as if such other members or partners had personally executed the same. And any action or suit may be instituted on such bond against all the members or partners of such firm, as if all of the members or partners had executed the same.

JUNE 20, 1876.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XIX, p. 60.)

CHAP. 137. An Act establishing Cheboygan, in the State of Michigan, a Port of Delivery. 2094. That Cheboygan, in the State of Michigan, being within the collection district of Michigan, be, and the same hereby is, declared a port of delivery instead of Duncan City; and the office of deputy collector now located at Duncan City be, and the same is hereby, removed to Cheboygan. And all acts and parts of acts declaring Duncan City a port of entry are hereby repealed.

JULY 12, 1876.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XIX, p. 90.)

CHAP. 185. An Act to exempt vessels engaged in navigating the Mississippi River and its tributaries above the port of New Orleans from entries and clearances.

2095. The provisions of sections forty-three hundred and forty-nine, fortythree hundred and fifty, forty-three hundred and fifty-one, forty-three hundred and fifty-two, forty-three hundred and fifty-three, forty-three hundred and fifty. four, forty-three hundred and fifty-five, and forty-three hundred and fifty-six of the Revised Statutes, requiring the master of every vessel licensed to carry on the coasting-trade, laden in part with foreign merchandise or distilled spirits, to procure a permit from the customs' officer of the port at which his vessel was laden, authorizing him to proceed to his port of destination, and also to procure a permit from the port of destination for the unlading of his cargo, shall not be held to include vessels engaged in the navigation of the Mississippi River or tributaries above the port of New Orleans.

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CHAP. 270. An Act establishing the port of Saint Paul, Minnesota, as a port of appraisa!. 2096. That the provisions contained in, and the privileges accorded by, sections twenty-nine hundred and ninety, twenty-nine hundred and ninety-one,

twenty-nine hundred and ninety-two, twenty-nine hundred and ninety-three, twenty-nine hundred and ninety-four, twenty-nine hundred and ninety-five, twenty-nine bundred and ninety-six, and twenty-nine hundred and ninety-seven, of the Revised Statutes be extended to, and held to include, the port of Saint Paul in the collection-district of Minnesota.

SEC. 2. That the appraiser at the port of Saint Paul shall receive the same amount of salary that the deputy collector of that port now receives.

AUGUST 14, 1876.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XIX, p. 141.)

CHAP. 274. An Act to punish the counterfeiting of trade-mark goods and the sale or dealing in of counterfeit trade-mark goods.

2097. Every person who shall with intent to defraud, deal in or sell, or keep or offer for sale, or cause or procure the sale of, any goods of substantially the same descriptive properties as those referred to in the registration of any trademark, pursuant to the statutes of the United States, to which, or to the package in which the same are put up, is fraudulently affixed said trade-mark, or any colorable imitation thereof, calculated to deceive the public, knowing the same to be counterfeit or not the genuine goods referred to in said registration, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not more than two years, or both such fine and imprisonment.

2098. SEC. 2. Every person who fraudulently affixes, or causes or procures to be fraudulently affixed, any trade-mark registered pursuant to the statutes of the United States, or any colorable imitation thereof, calculated to deceive the public, to any goods, of substantially the same descriptive properties as those referred to in said registration, or to the package in which they are put up, knowing the same to be counterfeit, or not the genuine goods, referred to in said registration, shall on conviction thereof, be punished as prescribed in the first section of this act.

2099. SEC. 3. Every person who fraudulently fills, or causes or procures to be fraudulently filled, any package to which is affixed any trade-mark, registered pursuant to the statutes of the United States, or any colorable imitation thereof, calculated to deceive the public, with any goods of substantially the same de scriptive properties as those referred to in said registration, knowing the same to be counterfeit, or not the genuine goods referred to in said registration, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished as prescribed in the first section of this act.

2100. SEC. 4. Any person or persons who shall, with intent to defraud any person or persons, knowingly and wilfully cast, engrave, or manufacture, or have in his, her, or their possession, or buy, sell, offer for sale, or deal in, any die or dies, plate or plates, brand or brands, engraving or engravings, on wood, stone, metal, or other substance, moulds, or any false representation, likeness, copy, or colorable imitation of any die, plate, brand, engraving, or mould of any private label, brand, stamp, wrapper, engraving on paper or other substance, or trade-mark, registered pursuant to the statutes of the United States, sball, upon conviction thereof, be punished as prescribed in the first section of this act.

2101. SEC. 5. Any person or persons who shall, with intent to defraud any person or persons, knowingly and wilfully make, forge, or counterfeit, or have in his, her, or their possession, or buy, sell, offer for sale, or deal in, any representation, likeness, similitude, copy, or colorable imitation of any private label, brand, stamp, wrapper, engraving, mould, or trade mark, registered pursuant to the statutes of the United States, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished as prescribed in the first section of this act.

2102. SEC. 6. Any person who shall, with intent to injure or defraud the owner of any trade-mark, or any other person lawfully entitled to use or protect the same, buy, sell, offer for sale, deal in or have in his possession any used or empty box, envelope, wrapper, case, bottle, or other package, to which is af fixed, so that the same may be obliterated without substantial injury to such box or other thing aforesaid, any trade mark, registered pursuant to the statutes of the United States, not so defaced, erased, obliterated, and destroyed as to prevent its fraudulent use, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished as prescribed in the first section of this act.

2103. SEC. 7. If the owner of any trade-mark, registered pursuant to the statutes of the United States, or his agent, make oath, in writing, that he has reason to believe, and does believe, that any counterfeit dies, plates, brands, engravings on wood, stone, metal, or other substance, or moulds, of his said registered trade-mark, are in the possession of any person, with intent to use the same for the purpose of deception and fraud, or makes such oath that any counterfeits or colorable imitations of his said trade-mark, label, brand, stamp, wrapper, engraving on paper or other substance, or empty box, envelope, wrapper, case, bottle, or other package, to which is affixed said registered trademark not so defaced, erased, obliterated, and destroyed as to prevent its fraudu lent use, are in the possession of any person, with intent to use the same for the purpose of deception and fraud, then the several judges of the circuit and district courts of the United States and the commissioners of the circuit courts may, within their respective jurisdictions, proceed under the law relating to search-warrants, and may issue a search-warrant authorizing and directing the marshal of the United States for the proper district to search for and seize all said counterfeit dies, plates, brands, engravings on wood, stone, metal, or other substance, moulds, and said counterfeit trade-marks, colorable imitations thereof, labels, brands, stamps, wrappers, engravings on paper, or other substance, and said empty boxes, envelopes, wrappers, cases, bottles, or other packages that can be found; and upon satisfactory proof being made that said counterfeit dies, plates, brands, engravings on wood, stone, metal, or other substance, moulds, counterfeit trade-marks, colorable imitations thereof, labels, brands, stamps, wrappers, engravings on paper or other substance, empty boxes, envelopes, wrappers, cases, bottles, or other packages, are to be used by the holder or owner for the purposes of deception and fraud, that any of said judges shall have full power to order all said counterfeit dies, plates, brands, engravings on wood, stone, metal, or other substance, moulds, counterfeit trade-marks, colorable imitations thereof, labels, brands, stamps, wrappers, engravings on paper or other substance, empty boxes, envelopes, wrappers, cases, bottles, or other packages, to be publicly destroyed.

2104. SEC. 8. Any person who shall, with intent to defraud any person or persons, knowingly and wilfully aid or abet in the violation of any of the provisions of this act, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment.

AUGUST 15, 1876.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XIX, p. 200.)

CHAP 290. An Act to carry into effect a convention between the United States of America and his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, signed on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.

2105. That whenever the President of the United States shall receive satisfactory evidence that the legislature of the Hawaiian Islands have passed laws on their part to give full effect to the provisions of the convention between the United States and his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, signed on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, he is hereby au

thorized to issue his proclamation declaring that he has such evidence; and thereupon, from the date of such proclamation, the following articles, being the growth and manufacture or produce of the Hawaiian Islands, to wit,

2106. Arrowroot; castor-oil; bananas; nuts; vegetables, dried and undried, preserved and unpreserved; hides and skins, undressed; rice; pulu; seeds; plants; shrubs, or trees; muscovado, brown, and all other unrefined sugar, meaning hereby the grades of sugar heretofore commonly imported from the Hawaiian Islands, and now known in the markets of San Francisco and Portland as "Sandwich Island sugar;" syrups of sugar-cane, melado, and molasses; tallow shall be introduced into the United States free of duty so long as the said convention shall remain in force.

FEBRUARY 27, 1877.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XIX, p. 240.)

CHAP. 69. An Act to perfect the Revision of the Statutes of the United States, and of the Statutes relating to the District of Columbia.

That for the purpose of correcting errors and supplying omissions in the act entitled "An Act to revise and consolidate the Statutes of the United States in force on the first day of December, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three," so as to make the same truly express such laws, the following amendments are hereby made therein: * * * *

2107. Section twenty-five hundred and four is amended by striking out, in Schedule M, after the word "sulphur" (ante, 1432), the word "flour," and insert the word "flowers."

2108. Section twenty-five hundred and five is amended by striking out, after the words "skins, dried, salted, or pickled," (ante, 1756), the words "ten per centum ad valorem."

2109. Section twenty-five hundred and eight (ante, 1808) is amended by inserting, in the fifth line, between the words "of" and "United States," the word "the."

2110. Section twenty-five hundred and fourteen (ante, 1814) is amended by inserting in the last line, between the words "of" and "Treasury," the word "the."

2111. Section twenty-eight hundred and sixty-five (ante, 1855) is amended by substituting therefor the following:

"If any person shall knowingly and wilfully, with intent to defraud the revenue of the United States, smuggle, or clandestinely introduce, into the United States, any goods, wares, or merchandise, subject to duty by law, and which should have been invoiced, without paying or accounting for the duty, or shall make out or pass, or attempt to pass, through the custom house any false, forged, or fraudulent invoice, every such person, his, her, or their aiders and abettors, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, or imprisoned for any term of time not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court."

2112. Section twenty-nine hundred and nine (ante, 1871) is struck out. 2113. Section twenty-nine hundred and thirty-six (ante, 1898) is amended by inserting in the eighth line, after the word "situated," the words "to make." 2114. Section twenty-nine hundred and seventy-eight (ante, 1940) is amended by adding, at the end of the section, the words "except as provided in section three thousand and twenty-five," (ante, 1979 e).

2115. Section twenty-nine hundred and eighty-four (ante, 1946) is amended by striking out, in the second line, the word "industry," and inserting therefor the word "injury."

2116. Section twenty-nine hundred and eighty-eight (ante, 1950) is amended by striking out all after the word "same," in the fifth line, and by inserting a period in lieu of the semicolon at the end of the section.

2117. Section twenty-nine hundred and eighty-nine (ante, 1951) is amended by striking out, in the third line, the words "relating to warehouses," and inserting therefor the words "of this chapter."

2118. Section three thousand and one (ante, 1963) is amended by adding thereto the following: "And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to remit, in whole or in part, on such conditions, and under such regula tions, not inconsistent with law, as he may prescribe, the additional duty secured by the bond given for the transportation of merchandise from a port in one collection district to a port in another collection district prescribed by the preceding section: Provided, That it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the failure to transport and deliver the merchandise aforesaid according to the conditions of the bonds accrued, without wilful negligence or fraudulent intent on the part of the obligors."

2119. Section three thousand and two (ante, 1964) is amended by striking out, in the ninth and eleventh lines, respectively, the words "Point Isabel," and inserting therefor the word "Brownsville."

2120. Section three thousand and three (ante, 1965) is amended by striking out, in the eighth line, after the words "del Norte," the word "and,” and inserting the word "or."

2121. Section three thousand and five (ante, 1967) is amended by striking out, in the fourth line, the words "Point Isabel," and inserting the word "Brownsville."

2122. Section three thousand and nine (ante, 1971), is amended by inserting, after the word "coin," in line two, the words "or coin certificates."

2123. Section three thousand and eleven (ante, 1973) is amended by striking out all after the word "protest," in the eighth line, and by adding the words "and appeal shall have been taken as prescribed in section twenty-nine hundred and thirty-one (ante, 1893)."

2124. Section thirty-one hundred and forty (ante, 1987) is amended by adding at the end of the section the words:

"And where not otherwise distinctly expressed or manifestly incompatible with the intent thereof, the word 'person,' as used in this title, shall be construed to mean and include a partnership, association, company, or corporation, as well as a natural person."

2125. Section thirty-three hundred and sixty-two is amended by striking out, in the fourth line of the fourth paragraph (ante, 2000) the word "sweeping," and inserting the word "sweepings."

2126. Section thirty-four hundred and thirty-three (ante, 2030b) is amended by inserting, after the word "materials," in line twenty-six, the words "except distilled spirits."

MAY 25, 1878.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XX, p. 63.)

CHAP. 109. An Act extending the Privileges of Sections twenty-nine hundred and ninety to twentynine hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised Statutes, inclusive, to the Port of Bath, in the State of Maine.

2127. That the privileges of sections twenty-nine hundred and ninety to twenty-nine hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised Statutes, inclusive, be, and they are hereby, extended to the Port of Bath, in the State of Maine.

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