Chapter LXX. to authorize the Issue of Registers to Vessels owned by the “Accessory Transit Company.” June 29, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Registers to be issued by Secretary of the Treasury for steamboats and vessels pas
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Chap. LXX.— An Act to authorize the Issue of Registers to Vessels owned by the “Accessory Transit Company.” June 29, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Registers to be issued by Secretary of the Treasury for steamboats and vessels passing over a certain route. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause registers to be issued in the name of the President of the “Accessory Transit Company,” incorporated under a charter from the State of Nicaragua, for the steamboats or vessels owned by said company, and employed in the transportation of merchandise and passengers between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, through or over the territory of the State Proviso.aforesaid: *Provided*, That before the granting of a register for any steamboat or vessel owned by said company, to be employed as aforesaid, Oath to be made by president before register is granted.the president of said company shall swear or affirm that the said steamboat or vessel is owned by said company; that all the officers, and at least two-thirds of the crew, are citizens of the United States, or persons not the subjects of any foreign prince or State; that all the officers, and directors of said company are citizens of the United States, and that two thirds of the stock of said company is owned by citizens of the United States; which oath or affirmation shall be deemed sufficient, without requiring the oath or affirmation of any other person interested or concerned Further proviso.in said steamboat or vessel: *And provided further*, That a register issued under this act shall continue in force one year and no How long register continues in force.longer, unless the president of the company aforesaid shall, within oneTHIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 71. 1854.301 year from the date of the register, make anew the oath or affirmation aforesaid, and the collector of the customs shall certify the date of said renewed oath or affirmation on the hack of said register, which shall continue in force for one year from said date, and the oath or affirmation may be so renewed and the indorsement so made once in each and every year thereafter, and the register shall continue in force accordingly. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That before granting a register toBond to be given for the employment of the vessel. any steamboat or vessel, owned by the company aforesaid, the president thereof shall, together with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the collector of the customs, by whom, under the direction of the .Secretary of the Treasury, the register may be issued, become bound to the United States in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, with condition that theConditions. steamboat or vessel shall be solely employed in the transportation of merchandise and passengers between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States as aforesaid; that the register shall be solely used for said steamboat or vessel; that it shall not be sold, lent, or otherwise disposed of to any other company, person, or persons; and that in case such steamboat or vessel shall be sold, lost, or otherwise prevented from returning to the United States, the said register shall, within six months thereafter, if preserved, be returned to the collector of the customs who issued it or to the register of the treasury for cancellation; and on failurePenalty of not complying with the conditions of bond. to comply with any of the conditions aforesaid, a forfeiture shall accrue to the United States of the entire penal sum named in said bond, to be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction, and the outstanding register shall be null and void.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That whenever the officer to whomNew register to be issued when a new person becomes president of the company. said register had been issued shall cease to be the president of said company, any register which may have been issued in his name shall be void, and a new register must be issued, in compliance with the provisions of this act. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That before issuing any register asVessel must be built in the U. S. and be subject to U.
S. laws. aforesaid, it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the steamboat or vessel for which the register is to issue shall have been built and equipped wholly in the United States; and said steamboats and vessels shall, in all respects, be subject to the laws of the United States in the same manner as vessels built wholly and registered by American citizens. Approved, June 29, 1854.