Chapter CLXIX. to further provide for the Collection of the Revenue upon the Northern, Northeastern, and Northwestern Frontier, and for other Purposes
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Chap. CLXIX.— An Act to further provide for the Collection of the Revenue upon the Northern, Northeastern, and Northwestern Frontier, and for other Purposes. July 14, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That from and after the first day of October next, the master or manager of every vessel which is enrolledMaster, &c., of vessel enrolled and licensed for coasting trade on northern, &c., frontiers, to file manifest, &c. or licensed for carrying on the coasting trade on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers of the United States shall, before the departure of his vessel from any port, file a manifest of his cargo with the collector and obtain a clearance; and if said vessel shall touch at any of the ports of the United States, and there receive on board any goods, wares, or merchandise, or discharge any portion of her cargo, the masterDuty of master at other ports.
Of collector at such ports. or manager shall report to the collector such arrival and produce his manifest, and it shall be the duty of the collector to endorse thereon, certified by himself, a description of the goods, wares, or merchandise so taken on hoard or unladen, and return the same to the master or manager, who shall deliver to the collector of the port at which the unlading of the cargo is completed, the manifest to be placed on file in his office. And thePenalty for neglect. owner or owners of every vessel whose master or manager shall neglect to comply with the provisions of this section, shall forfeit and pay to the United States the sum of twenty dollars for each and every offence, one-half for the use of the informer, and for which sum the vessel shall be liable, and may be seized and proceeded against summarily by way of 572 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 169, 170, 171. 1862. libel in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the offence. Sec. 2. Blank manifests, &c., to be kept for sale by collectors, &c.Price of blanks. *And be it further enacted, *That collectors and surveyors of the collection districts on the said frontiers are authorized to keep on sale, at their several offices, blank manifests and clearances required for the business of their districts, and to charge the sum of ten cents and no more for each blank which shall be prepared and executed by them.
Sec. 3. Goods under reciprocity treaty may be entered at any port on northern, &c., frontier, upon, &c. *And be it further enacted, *That goods imported under the reciprocity treaty with Great Britain may be entered at any port on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers of the United States, upon satisfactory evidence being given to the collector at the port where such goods are offered for entry, that they are of the growth or production of Canada, without the consular certificate now required.
Sec. 4. Fees for such entry. *And be it further enacted, *That for every entry of goods at any custom-house on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers of the United States, a fee of forty cents shall be charged by the collector, and accounted for to the government. Sec. 5. Special agents at ports opened in the States in insurrection.1863, ch. 120, § 5.*Post*, p. 821. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized in all cases where ports may be opened within the limits of insurrectionary States, during the existing rebellion, to appoint special agents to perform the functions of the ordinary officers subordinate to the Treasury Department at such ports: *Provided,* That Compensation.the compensation to be allowed such temporary officers shall not exceed that paid to permanent officers of the same position during the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, nor exceed the compensation ordinarily allowed to such official agents.
Approved, July 14, 1862.