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DUTIES. Vessels of Louisiana territory entitled to the same benefits as of the United
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Other acts extended to Louisiana,

Persons claiming such privileges shall comply with the registering act, and
take the oath of allegiance,

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Repeals all laws establishing a district, &c. south of the state of Tennessee,
District Natches formed, (See repeal 13th Feb. 1807),

Foreign vessels may not unlade at any other district than New Orleans,
Vessels from the Cape of Good Hope, &c.

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Proviso restricting drawbacks to importations into New Orleans, (repealed 5th
January, 1805),

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Vessels bound to a port of delivery other than the port of Bayou St. John, in
the district of Mississippi, shall first come to at New Orleans,

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Any master of a vessel contravening the provisions of this act shall forfeit

Any vessel bound to the port of Bayou St John, may proceed thereto and after-
wards make report at New Orleans,

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500 dollars,

The President authorized to cause one revenue cutter to be built,

French and Spanish ships exempted from foreign duty in Louisiana for
twelve years,

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The President authorized to establish the district of Mobile and two ports of
delivery therein, and to appoint a Collector and surveyor,

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Act to commence in thirty days,

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Two an half per cent. additional duty, called “Mediterranean fund," laid on all
articles paying ad valorem duty, (continued to 1st April, 1814)
Regulations respecting the application of said fund,
Cargoes of Spanish vessels arriving in distress in the United States, may be
reshipped in other vessels without any charges,

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Terms of credit for the payment of duties on goods imported by sea from
foreign ports, (See p. 127,)

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Vessels may proceed with their cargoes to foreign ports or places free of duty,
(See p. 71,)

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District of Miami established. Port of entry at or near Sandusky, and two
others at the discretion at the President may be established and surveyors
to be appointed, &c.

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President authorized to designate a port of entry in the district of Erie,

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The sixth section of the act laying light money not to apply to sea letter
vessels,

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Roxbury annexed to the district of Boston and Charlestown, as a port of de
livery,

Proviso that certain oaths are taken by the master or owner on his arrival
from a foreign port,

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Jersey in the state of New Jersey added to the district of Perth Amboy, as a
port of delivery,

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Collector of Great Egg Harbor may reside any where in his district,

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Town of Darien annexed to the district of Brunswick, Georgia, as a port of
delivery,

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Ocracocke established as a district-port of entry to be designated by the Pre-
sident,

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Vessels coming in at Ocracocke and bound for another district connected with
the waters thereof, to make report at Oeracocke,

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All acts repealed which erected any of the waters of the Mississippi, &c. into
separate districts,

All the waters and shores of the Mississippi and Ohio annexed to the district
of Mi sissippi.

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The secretary of the treasury authorized to cause a custom-house to be built
at New Orleans,

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The name of the district of Biddeford and Pepperelborough changed to Saco,
District of Plymouth formed from district of Edenton, North Carolina,
Name of the district of Nanjemoy changed to that of St. Marys,
Augusta added to the district of Bath as a port of delivery,

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Regulations relative to the delivery of letters at the post office from vessels
arriving from foreign ports

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Mumphremagog established as a district-a Collector to he appointed to reside
thereat,

Öswegatchie and White Mountains established as districts, Collectors to re-
side at each,

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District of Sandusky formed from the district of Miami,

Part of state of New Jersey added to district of New York-an assistant collec-
tor to be appointed therefor,

The President authorized to alter the port of entry of the district of Vermont
and establish another place in lieu thereof,

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Cape St. Vincent, in district of Sacket's Harbor, made a port of delivery-
a surveyor to reside there,

Collectors office removed from Niagara to Lewistown;

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Bangor made a port of delivery,

Plymouth and Nantucket made ports of entry for vessels beyond the Cape of
Good Hope,

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A surveyor to be appointed to reside at the mouth of Rappahannock river,
The Collectors and surveyors to be appointed by this act to receive the same
salary as the Collectors and surveyors of the districts bordering on Lake
Erie,
Rates of duties,

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Elizabeth city a port of entry and delivery for the district of Camden, in lieu
of Plank Bridge,

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ENROLLING AND LICENSING. What ships shall be deemed of the United States,
Ships to possess requisites required by a certain act to obtain enrolment,
Form of enrolment,

On what conditions Collectors may enrol vessels,

And those for carrying on the coasting trade licensed,

Form of license to coasting vessels,

How far licenses shall be deemed in force,

Certain vessels not complying with this act to be forfeited,

Collectors to number licenses,

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Vessels before proceeding on a foreign voyage to obtain register and give up
enrolment,

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When owners may cancel license and obtain new ones,
Licensed vessel to have name painted on the stern,

Proceedings on change of master of licensed vessels,

By whom enrolments may be inspected,

Duty of masters of licensed coasting vessels having on board distilled spirits,
&c. exceeding in value 800 dollars,

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Duty of masters of licensed coasting vessels having on board distilled spirits, &c. 15
Duty of masters of vessels destined from any district to other than a district in
the same or an adjoining state,

Masters of coasting vessels, when and to whom to deliver manifests under
oath and obtain permit for unloading,

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In what cases masters of vessels may be exempt from delivering manifests, 18
In others how to be provided with them,

Collector of Pennsylvania may grant permits for transporting foreign goods
to certain states and under what regulations,

Registered vessels employed in going from district to district, subject to regu-
lations in sec. 16 and 17 of this act,

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Masters of vessels bound from district to district, previously to deliver dupli-
cate manifests to Collector, &c.

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EAST RIVER. Established as a district-taken out of the district of York Town, Vir-

ginia,

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Port of entry and delivery to be designatd therefor by the President,

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EASTON. In Maryland, made a port of delivery,

EMBARGO. Repealed,

ELIZABETH CITY. Made a port of entry and delivery for the district of Camden, in
Plank Bridge,

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Proviso.

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FISHERIES. The Collector of the customs at Edenton to permit the landing of salt at
fisheries-in other respects the usual regulations to be observed,

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FISHERIES. Inspectors entitled to accommodations,

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Conditions to which they become subject.

Agreements with fishermen under what sanctions to be made,

to pecuniary compensation if more than fifteen days be
employed in discharging,

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Duty upon salt-and proviso,

Fishing vessels to continue liable for wages of the hands on certain conditions
--and proviso,

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Duties upon pickled fish-and proviso,

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Bounty on drawback,

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Allowance to be made to owners, &c. of fishing vessels,

Penalty for falsely entering piekled fish to obtain bounty,

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Owners of fishing vessels to exhibit certain papers in order to the allowance,
No vessel entitled to the authorized allowance but upon certain conditions,
Penalty for false oaths,

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Tonnage allowance to be made to owners of fishing vessels-and proviso,

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Rates of foreign coins, how to be estimated in payment of duties,
No foreign cous to be received unless a legal tender,

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Rates of certain coins altered-all invoices to be made out n the currency of

When all coins except Spanish dollars shall cease to be a tender,
Other foreign coins to be coined anew,

the country from whence the importation shall be made, (See antea p. 144),
Rates of foreign coins established,

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Second section of act of 9th Feb. 1793, suspended three years,

After the 1st July, 1793, 55th sec. of certain act rating foreign coins repealed,
Assay of coins when to commence,

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Part of the act for regulating foreign coins suspended for three years,

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of Perth Amboy,

Meaning of insolvency in such case,

INSOLVENT DEBTOR. Surety in bonds for duties, to have priority in case of insol.
vency of the principal,

JERSEY. In the state of New Jersey made a port of delivery, to be annexed to the district

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INFORMER. If necessary as a witness to forfeit his share,

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To be appointed,

INSPECTORS OF THE REVENUE. To account with Collectors for certificates for

spirits, wines, and teas delivered to them,

To keep accounts of their transactions,

To take an oath,

JUDICIARY. In suits for pecuniary penalties, defendant may be held to special bail,
Judgments in suits on bonds for duties to be rendered at the first term,
Officers or other's sued for any thing done in virtue of the powers given by the
act to regulate the collection of the duties on imports and tonnage, may
plead the general issue, &c.

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Money paid into any district or circuit court to abide the decision of the
court to be deposited in bank, as the court may direct,
KENNEBUNK. District of, formed,
KETTERY AND BERWICK
as a port of delivery,
LIEN. See Duties-Revenue.
LYME. Annexed to New London-duties of the surveyor of Saybrook to extend to Lyme,
MITIGATION OR REMISSIONS, &c. How to be applied for, and by whom granted,
Not to affect cases of previous information,

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LETTERS OF MARQUE AND REPRISAL. President authorized to revoke letters of
marque and reprisal,

In case the plaintiff is non-suited, or judgment passed against him, defendant
to recover double costs,

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Distribution of prize money, &c.

Recapture of property of citizens, &c. to be restored on payment of salvage,

Formalities required from persons applying for letters of marque, and conditions, 2
Bond to be given.

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LETTERS OF MARQUE AND REPRISALS. Distribution of salvage,
Prizes to be brought in for adjudication, into the ports of the United States,
or a friendly nation,

District courts of the United States to have original exclusive jurisdiction of
prizes brought into the United States,

Regulations concerning prisoners found on board prize vessels,
President to prescribe instructions to privateers,

Bounty for destroying enemies' property,

Commanding officers of privateers to keep journals,

Journals to be reported to the Collectors, &c-commanding officers of priva
teers to exhibit their journals, &c. to public vessels of the United States,
Penalties for neglecting to keep journals, or keeping untrue ones,
Owners of privateers how punishable for violating revenue laws of the United

States.

Non-Importation law, so far as it concerns prize goods, dispensed with,
Offences on board private armed vessels, how punishable,

Parts of non-importation laws repealed so far as they relate to private armed
vessels,

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Commissions to the Collectors and consuls upon prize goods, and to what uses
to be applied,

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Prizes made by private armed ships to be sold by the marshals of the districts
wherein they are condemned-and proviso,

Marshals to pay over the proceeds, &c.

Commission to the marshals for this service,

Proviso,

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The two per cent reserved &c. in the hands of the Collectors and consuls, to
be paid to the treasury to constitute a fund, &c.

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Secretary of the Navy to place certain persons on the pension list, &c.

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Commanding officers to enter the names, &c. of wounded persons in a journal, 3
Collector to transmit a transcript, &c.

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Bounty to officers and crews of private armed vessels, for persons taken by
them, and brought into port,

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Specific appropriation,

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Construction to be put upon a former act regulating pensions, &c.
Regulations concerning pensions to persons on board private armed vessels.
Widows and children of seamen serving in the public vessels of the United
States provided for,

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One hundred dollars to be paid out of the treasury to privateersmen for each
prisoner taken by them,

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Vessels sailing with such licenses to be considered and treated as British,
Proviso,

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Vessels within the jurisdiction of the United States, sailing after the promul-
gation of this act, and arriving in the United States from certain latitudes,
to be subject to the operation of this act,

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MARIETTA. District of, established, (See act 13th Feb. 1807, annexing the waters of the

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NANTUCKET Made a port of entry for vessels beyond the Cape of Good Hope,
NAVAL OFFICER. His duties,

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May in case of sickness or necessary absence act by deputy to be appointed
by him,

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To perform the duties, on the death or disability of the Collector, if no de-
puty Collector,

May go on board vessels,

Table of fees to be fixed

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Penalty on taking unlawful in his office,

fees,

Not to be concerned in shipping or commerce,
May buy or dispose of public funds,

Penalty on receiving a bribe,

May act by substitute,

NATURALIZATION. On what condition aliens may be naturalized,

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Mode prescribed,

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What courts may be considered as capable of naturalizing aliens,

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Children of persons naturalized under certain laws to be citizens of the
United States,

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Privilege of citizenship not to extend to children of persons who have never
resided in the United States, or to persons proscribed, &c.

To be taken by the officers appointed,

Repeal of former acts,

Certain aliens permitted to become citizens of the United States,

After an alien shall have complied with certain directions, his widow and
children made citizens of the United States,

Persons authorized to become citizens,

OCRACOCKE. Established as a district,

Port of entry to be designated by the President,

OSWEGATCHIE. Established as a district,

OFFICERS OF THE CUSTOMS. Eligible as inspectors of the revenue,
OATHS. Manner of taking oaths,

False swearing how to be punished,

PELTRIES Exempt from duty,

PORT TONNAGE. Certain acts of Maryland and Georgia revived, Proviso, That ves
sels propelled by steam shall be exempt from the charge,

PRIZE. See Letters of Marque and Reprisal.

PENALTIES. Officers of the customs omitting to take oath of office to forfeit 200 dollars, 20
The master of a vessel owned by a citizen or inhabitant of the United States
shall fofeit the goods or the value thereof, if not included in the manifest,
All such merchandize, owned by, or consigned to the master, mate, officers or
crew of the vessel, forfeited,

If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Collector, naval officer and survey-
or, or the court, that no fraud was intended, the penalty shall not be incurred, 24
Masters of vessels owned by citizens or inhabitants of the United States, on
arrival within four leagues of the coast, or within any bay, &c. to deliver
manifest-in default to pay 500 dollars,

Officers neglecting or refusing to certify manifests, penalty 500 dollars,
If after the arrival of a ship or vessel, any part of the cargo shall be landed
without authority, such part to be forfeited, and the master and mate to for.
feit 1000 dollars.

Exception in case of necessity upon proof before the Collector, any vesels re-
ceiving such goods without necessity to be forfeited, and the master or person
having charge, and every person aiding and assisting, shallforfeit treble value
of the goods so received,

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If any ship or vessel shall depart from a district, unless to proceed to some
more interior district, without making entry with the Collector of some dis.
trict, the master or person in command to forfeit 400 dollars,

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The master or person omitting to make report of spirits, wines and teas, to for-
feit 500 dollars, and of the spirits so omitted,

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Penalty on failure of the master of a vessel to make report (other than that re-
quired to be made of spirits, wines and teas) forfeiture 1000 dollars,
The master of a vessel who shall neglect to obtain from the Collector of the
port of the first arrival of a vessel bound from district to district a copy of
his first report, to forfeit 500 dollars,

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If the master of a vessel bound from district to district, with spirits, wines and
teas, shall fail to obtain from the inspector at the first port of arrival a cer
tificate, to be delivered up within twenty-four hours after arrival at the
next port-penalty 500 dollars, and loss of the spirits, &c.

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The proprietor, &c. of spirits, &c. who shall omit to deliver up certificates
thereof, shall forfeit 50 dollars for each cask,

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Spirits, &c. unaccompanied with certificates, to be forfeited,

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On defacing marks, selling casks, or refusing to deliver up certificates-for each
offence 100 dollars,

Penalty on false entry of sea stores, and on landing without permit-such stores
forfeited and the master to treble the value thereof,

Forfeiture of merchandize found with wearing apparel, &c. treble the value
thereof,

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All persons concerned or aiding in landing goods without authority, or in re
moving or storing the same, shall forfeit 400 dollars-the goods so landed, if
in value 400 dollars, to be forfeited,

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Goods required to be weighed, &c.-forfeited if removed without the consent
of the proper officer,

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