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Vessels depart- United States; and if any vessel or other vehicle for which a clearance or ing, &c. without clearance to be permit shall have been refused by the Secretary of the Treasury, or by his order, as aforesaid, shall depart or attempt to depart for a foreign or domestic port without being duly cleared or permitted, such vessel or other vehicle, with her tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo, shall be forfeited to the United States.

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SEC. 2. That whenever a permit or clearance is granted for either a foreign or domestic port, it shall be lawful for the collector of the customs granting the same, if he shall deem it necessary, under the circumstances of the. case, to require a bond to be executed by the master or the owner of the vessel, in a penalty equal to the value of the cargo, and with sureties to the satisfaction of such collector, that the said cargo shall be delivered at the destination for which it is cleared or permitted, and that no part thereof shall be used in affording aid or comfort to any person or parties in insurrection against the authority of the United States.

SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby further empowered to prohibit and prevent the transportation in any vessel, or upon any railroad, turnpike, or other road or means of transportation within the United States, of any goods, wares, or merchandise of whatever character, and whatever may be the ostensible destination of the same, in all cases where there shall be satisfactory reasons to believe that such goods, wares, or merchandise are intended for any place in the possession or under the control of insurgents against the United States; or that there is imminent danger that such goods, wares, or merchandise will fall into the possession or under the control of such insurgents; and he is further authorized, in all cases where he shall deem it expedient so to do, to require reasonable security to be given that goods, wares, or merchandise shall not be transported to any place under insurrectionary control, and shall not, in any way, be used to give aid or comfort to such insurgents, and he may establish all such general or special regulations as may be necessary or proper to carry into effect the purposes of this act; and if any goods, wares, or merchandise shall be transported in violation of this act, or of any regulation of the Secretary of the Treasury, established in pursuance thereof, or if any attempt shall be made so to transport them, all goods, wares, or merchandise, so transported or attempted to be transported, shall be forfeited to the United States.

SEC. 4. That the proceedings for the penalties and forfeitures accruing under this act may be pursued, and the same may be mitigated or remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury in the modes prescribed by the eighth and ninth sections of the act of July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to which this act is supplementary.

SEC. 5. That the proceeds of all penalties and forfeitures incurred under this act, or the act to which this is supplementary, shall be distributed in the manner provided by the ninety-first section of the act of March second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage."

No. 421. - JUNE 2, 1862.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. XCII.—An Act abolishing certain Collection Districts and reducing CompensaVol. XII. p. 411.

1850, ch. 79, § 1. Also 1854, ch. 199.

Inspectors to be appointed.

Salary.

tion of Officers of Customs in California.

Be it enacted, &c. That the collection districts of Monterey, San Diego, Sacramento, Sonoma, San Joaquin, and San Pedro, heretofore established by law, are hereby abolished, and the same attached to the collection district of San Francisco; and there shall be appointed, in the usual manner, an inspector at each of the following places: Monterey, San Diego, Sacramento, Benicia, Stockton, San Pedro; and the salary of each of the said inspectors shall be one thousand dollars per annum.

Pay of officers of the customs at San Francisco.

SEC. 2. That from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the annual compensation of the collector of the customs for the district of San Francisco shall be six thousand dollars; of the naval 1850, ch. 79, § 2. officer, four thousand five hundred dollars; of the surveyor, four thousand dollars; of the principal appraisers, twenty-five hundred dollars each; and of the assistant appraisers, two thousand dollars each; and the office of an Office of additional appraiseradditional appraiser-general to be employed on the Pacific coast, created by the act of Congress entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four," approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, be and the same is hereby abolished.

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CHAP. XCVI. - An Act to authorize the President of the United States to appoint Diplomatic Representatives to the Republics of Hayti and Liberia, respectively.

general abol

shed.

1853, ch. 97.

Stat. at Large, Vol. XII. p. 421.

Diplomatic

to Hayti and Liberia

Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, representatives to appoint diplomatic representatives of the United States to the Republics of Hayti and Liberia, respectively. Each of the said representatives so appointed shall be accredited as commissioner and consul-general, and shall receive the compensation of commissioners according to the act of Congress approved August eighteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-six: Provided, That the annual compensation of the representative at Liberia shall not exceed four thousand dollars.

No. 423. JUNE 19, 1862.

CHAP. CXII.— An Act to change the Location of the Port of Entry for the Puget Sound
Collection District.

Rank and pay.

1856, ch. 127. Vol. xi. p. 52.

Stat. at Large, Vol. XII. p. 432.

Port of entry

[Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the port of Port Townsend, in the district of Puget for Puget Sound Sound, in Washington Territory, is hereby abolished as a port of entry; and collection disthat Port Angelos be and is hereby established as the port of entry and delivery trict. for the said district from and after the said date.]

No. 424. JUNE 20, 1862.

CHAP. CXVI. — An Act to change the Port of Entry for the District of Brunswick,

Georgia.

Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the port of entry for the district of Brunswick, Georgia, shall be Brunswick, and that Darien shall be abolished as the port of entry.

See 1866, ch. 252.

Stat. at Large, Vol. XII. p. 432.

Port of entry

for the district of Brunswick, Georgia.

SEC. 2. That there shall be a deputy collector appointed, according to Deputy colleclaw, to reside at Darien, and to exercise such powers as the Secretary of tor at Darien. the Treasury, under the revenue laws, may prescribe.

No. 425.- JULY 2, 1862.

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CHAP. CXXVIII.—An Act to prescribe an Oath of Office, and for other Purposes.
Be it enacted, &c. That hereafter every person elected or appointed to
any office of honor or profit under the government of the United States,
either in the civil, military, or naval departments of the public service, ex-
cepting the President of the United States, shall, before entering upon the
duties of such office, and before being entitled to any of the salary or other lic service.
emoluments thereof, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation :

Oath to be preserved. False swearing

in taking the path to be perjury. Penalty.

"I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. And I do further swear (or affirm) that, to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God;" which said oath, so taken and signed, shall be preserved among the files of the court, House of Congress, or department to which the said office may appertain. And any person who shall falsely take the said oath shall be guilty of perjury, and on conviction, in addition to the penalties now prescribed for that offence, shall be deprived of his office and rendered incapable forever after of holding any office or place under the United States.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. CXLVII. Vol. XII. p. 537.

1856, chs. 12 and 24.

1855, ch. 202. 1852, ch. 115. 1854, ch. 192.

No. 426.- JULY 11, 1862.

An Act to abolish certain Ports of Delivery in the Mississippi
Valley.

Be it enacted, &c. That the several laws constituting Hannibal, in the State of Missouri, Hickman and Columbus, in the State of Kentucky, Chattanooga and Knoxville, in the State of Tennessee, and Tuscumbia, in the State of Alabama, and Shreveport, in the State of Louisiana, ports of delivery, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

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Stat. at Large, CHAP. CL.- An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint a Deputy Vol. XII. p. 537. Collector of the Customs at Chincoteague Island, in the State of Virginia.

Deputy collector at Chincoteague Island.

Pay.

Stat. at Large, Vol. XII. p. 624. List of contracts solicited or proposed, or

modification of

contracts to be

published week

Proviso.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, according to law, a deputy collector of customs to reside on Chincoteag[u]e Island, in the State of Virginia, and to exercise such powers, under the revenue laws, as he, the Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe; the compensation of the said deputy collector to be the legal fees on the business he may transact, and no more.

No. 428.- JULY 12, 1862.

[No. 53.] A Resolution in Relation to Contracts with the United States. Resolved, &c. That it shall be the duty of the several executive departments of the government to publish in one of the daily newspapers of the city of Washington, on Tuesday of each week, a list of all contracts which shall have been solicited or proposed to each, respectively, during the week next preceding, which list shall state briefly the subject-matter of each contract so solicited or proposed to be made, its terms, the name of the proposed contractor and of all persons known to be interested therein, directly or indirectly, and of all persons who solicit, request, or recommend the making of any such contract: Provided, That the foregoing provisions shall not be applicable to bids made in pursuance of advertisements for contracts or purchases made under existing laws, but shall apply to all proposed modifications of existing contracts.

No. 429.- JULY 14, 1862.

CHAP. CLXIII. – An Act increasing, temporarily, the Duties on Imports, and for other
Purposes.

Stat. at Large, Vol. XII. p. 543.

Additional tonnage duty on

See 1865, ch.

Certain ships

to pay tonnage

duty only once

a year.

(For first 13 sections of this act, see Part II. Section 14, repealed.) SEC. 15. That upon all ships, vessels, or steamers, which, after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall be vessels after Dec. entered at any custom-house in the United States from any foreign port or 31, 1862. place, or from any port or place in the United States, whether ships or vessels of the United States, or belonging wholly or in part to subjects of foreign powers, there shall be paid a tax or tonnage duty of ten cents per ton of the measurement of said vessel, in addition to any tonnage duty 80, § 4. now imposed by law: Provided, That the said tax or tonnage duty shall not be collected more than once in each year on any ship, vessel, or steamer having a license to trade between different districts of the United States, or to carry on the bank, whale, or other fisheries, whilst employed therein, or on any ship, vessel, or steamer, to or from any port or place in Mexico, the British provinces of North America, or any of the West 2, 1867, ch. 169, India islands: Provided, also, That nothing in this act contained shall be § 33. deemed in any wise to impair any rights and privileges which have been impair rights, or may be acquired by any foreign nation under the laws and treaties of &c. under any the United States relative to the duty on tonnage of vessels: Provided, treaty. Suspension of further, That so much of the act of August eighteen, eighteen hundred part of act of and fifty-six, entitled "An act to authorize protection to be given to 1856, ch. 164. citizens of the United States who may discover deposits of guano," as Guano. prohibits the export thereof, is hereby suspended for one year from and after the passage of this act.

SEC. 16. That from and after the passage of this act, in estimating the allowance for tare on all chests, boxes, cases, casks, bags, or other envelope or covering of all articles imported liable to pay any duty, where the original invoice is produced at the time of making entry thereof, and the tare shall be specified therein, it shall be lawful for the collector, if he shall see fit, or for the collector and naval officer, if such officer there be, if they shall see fit, with the consent of the consignees, to estimate the said tare according to such invoice; but in all other cases the real tare shall be allowed, and may be ascertained under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time prescribe; but in no case shall there be any allowance for draft.

(Section 17, repealed, 1863, ch. 76, § 14.)

SEC. 18. That, from and after the date aforesaid, it shall be the duty of consuls and commercial agents of the United States, having any knowledge or belief of any case or practice of any person or persons who obtain or should obtain verification of invoices as described in the preceding section, whereby the revenue of the United States is or may be defrauded, to report the facts to the collector of the port where the revenue is or may be defrauded, or to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.

1863, ch. 77, § 4. 1866, ch. 201, § 28, and March

This act not to

Tare, how estimated.

Consuls, &c. to report fraudulent practices.

Amendments

of act.
1861, ch. 68.

SEC. 19. That from and after the passage of this act, the act entitled "An act to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties on imports, and for other §§ 12, 23. purposes," approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows, that is to say: First, in section twelve, before the word "eighteen," where it first occurs, strike out "less than;" second, in section twenty-three, after the words, "artists residing abroad," strike out, "provided the same be imported in good faith as objects of taste and not of merchandise," and insert, " provided the fact, as aforesaid, shall be certified by the artist, or by a consul of the United States;" and in the same section, before the word "orpiment," insert, "ores of gold and silver."

act.

Amendment of SEC. 20. That the sixth section of an act entitled "An act to extend 1854, ch. 30, § 6. the warehousing system by establishing private bonded warehouses, and See also 1861, for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, amended so that the ch. 10, § 3. additional duty of one hundred per centum shall not apply to the invoice or appraised value of the merchandise withdrawn, but shall be so construed as to require for failure to transport and deliver within the time limited, a duty to be levied and collected of double the amount [to] which said goods, wares, and merchandise would be liable upon the original entry thereof.

Goods in public stores and on

shipboard August 11, 1862, subject to what rates of duty. 1863, ch. 77, § 1.

15 and 128.

Goods in pub

lic store to be withdrawn, or duties paid within one year of importation, or may be transhipped within three years;

otherwise to be sold.

Goods on

SEC. 21. That all goods, wares, and merchandise, which may be in the public stores or bonded warehouse on the first day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, may be withdrawn for consumption upon payment of the duties now imposed thereon by law, provided the same shall be so withdrawn within three months from the date of original imporAlso 1864, chs. tation; but all goods, wares, and merchandise which shall remain in the Also 1865, ch. 9. public stores or bonded warehouse for more than three months from the date of original importation if withdrawn for consumption, and all goods on shipboard on the first day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall be subject to the duties prescribed by this act: Provided, That all goods which now are or may be deposited in public store or bonded warehouse after this act takes effect and goes into operation, must be withdrawn therefrom, or the duties thereon paid within one year from the date of original importation, but may be withdrawn by the owner for exportation to foreign countries, or may be transhipped to any port of the Pacific or western coast of the United States at any time before the expiration of three years from the date of original importation; such goods on arrival at a Pacific or western port, as aforesaid, to be subject to the same rules and regulations as if originally imported there; any goods remaining in public store or bonded warehouse beyond three years shall be regarded as abandoned to the government, and sold under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, and the proceeds paid into the treasury: Provided, further, That merchandise which duties are upon which duties have been paid may remain in warehouse in custody paid may remain of the officers of the customs at the expense and risk of the owners of in warehouse, said merchandise, and it exported directly from said custody to a foreign country within three years, shall be entitled to return duties, proper evidence of such merchandise having been landed abroad to be furnished to the collector by the importer, one per centum of said duties to be retained by the government: And provided, further, That all drugs, medicines, may be exported. and chemical preparations, entered for exportation and deposited in warehouse or public store, may be exported by the owner or owners thereof in the original package, or otherwise, subject to such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: And provided, further, That the third or last proviso to the fifth section of an act entitled "An act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay interest on the pub1861, ch. 45, § 5. lic debt, and for other purposes," approved the sixth [fifth] day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and no return of the duties shall be allowed on the export of any merchandise after it has been removed from the custody and control of the government; but nothing herein contained shall be held to apply to or repeal section thirty of the act entitled "An act to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or section four of an act entitled “An act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay interest on the public 1861, ch. 45, § 4. debt, and for other purposes," approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Supplies for SEC. 22. That the privilege of purchasing supplies from the public vessels-of-war of warehouses duty free, be extended under such regulations as the Secre

&c.

Drugs, &c.

1861, ch. 68, § 30.

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