Chapter CXXX. *to regulate the Foreign Coasting Trade on the Northern, Northeastern, and Northwestern Frontiers of the United States, and for other Purposes.* June 17, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Vessels navigating the wat
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Chap. CXXX.— An Act *to regulate the Foreign Coasting Trade on the Northern, Northeastern, and Northwestern Frontiers of the United States, and for other Purposes.* June 17, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Vessels navigating the waters on northern, &c., frontiers to be enrolled and licensed. That any boat, sloop, or other vessel of the United States, navigating the waters on our northern, northeastern and northwestern frontiers, otherwise than by sea, shall be enrolled and licensed in such form as other vessels; which enrolment and license shall authorize any such boat, sloop, or other vessel to be Effect thereof.employed either in the coasting or foreign trade on said frontiers; and no certificate of register shall be required for vessels so employed on said Proviso.frontiers: *Provided*, That such boat, sloop, or vessel shall be, in every other respect, liable to the rules, regulations, and penalties now in force relating to registered and licensed vessels.
Sec. 2. Compensation of certain collectors of customs.1831, ch. 98, § 4.Vol. iv. p. 487.*And be it further enacted*, That in lieu of the compensation provided by the fourth section of the act of March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, entitled “An act to regulate the foreign and coasting trade on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers of the United States, and for other purposes,” each of the several collectors of customs in the following districts on the said frontiers, to wit:
Pembina, Chicago, Milwaukie, Sanlt Sainte Marie, Detroit, Miami, Sandusky, Cuyahoga, Presque Isle, (hereafter to be called Erie,) Dunkirk, Buffalo, Niagara, Genesee, Oswego, Cape Vincent, Oswegatchie, Champlain, and Vermont, shall receive an annual compensation of one thousand dollars, and, in addition thereto, the fees now collected under the general regulations of the treasury department of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and a commission of three per centum on all moneys collected and accounted for by them respectively: *Provided*, That the aggregate compensation derived from salary, fees, and commissions, shall not in any Not to exceed a certain sum.1846, ch. 7.Vol. ix. p. 3.case exceed the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, subject to the provisions of the act entitled “An act relative to collectors and other officers of the customs,” approved February eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six.
And whenever the aggregate of salary, fees, and commissions shall in any case exceed the said sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, after deducting the necessary expenses incident to the said office, for and during the same period for which said compensation is allowed, the excess Fees, &c., how to be accounted for.1822, ch. 107, § 12.Vol. iii. p. 695.shall, in every such case, be paid into the treasury of the United States. The fees and emoluments of all kinds to be accounted for as provided by the twelfth section of the act of the seventh of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two.
Sec. 3. What fees may be charged.*And be it further enacted*, That the collectors and other officers of customs on the said frontiers shall be authorized to charge and collect the same fees as are now allowed by law to be charged and collected by the collectors and other officers of customs. Sec. 4. Certain territory, waters, &c., added to the Milwaukie district.*And be it further enacted*, That all the territory, harbors, and waters on the eastern shore of the State of Wisconsin, bordering on Lake Michigan, heretofore embraced in the district of Michilimackinac, and lying within the limits of the State of Wisconsin, shall be, and the same are hereby, attached to and made part of the collection district of Milwaukie, in the State of Wisconsin.
Sec. 5. Bonds of collectors, naval officers, &c., how approved and kept.*And be it further enacted*, That all bonds given by collectors of customs, naval officers, surveyors, and by all officers of the customs throughout the United States, shall be approved by the commissioner of customs, in whose office they are now required to be filed. THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 131, 132. 1864. 135 Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted*, That this act shall take effect fromWhen act takes effect. and after the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted*, That the act entitled “An act toRepeal of act of 1831; ch. 98, and of inconsistent acts. regulate the foreign and coasting trade on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, June 17, 1864.