Chapter XLII. *supplementary to an Act to prevent Smuggling and for other Purposes, approved July eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.* Feb. 18, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Provisions of act to prevent smuggling, not
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CHAP. XLII.— An Act *supplementary to an Act to prevent Smuggling and for other Purposes, approved July eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.* Feb. 18, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Provisions of act to prevent smuggling, not to affect any right or suit pending at the time of its passage.Suits, &c. may be tried and disposed of. That the provisions of the act of Congress approved July eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled “An act to prevent smuggling and for other purposes,” shall be so construed as not to affect any right of suit or prosecution which may have accrued under any prior acts of Congress repealed or supplied by said act, previous to July eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; and all such suits or prosecutions as have been, or shall be, commenced under such .prior acts, for acts committed previous to July eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, shall be tried and disposed of, and judgment or decree executed as if said act of July eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, had not been passed, anything therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 2. Coasting vessels between ports on Lake Michigan laden, &c. may unlade without previous permit.1866, ch. 201, § 26.*Ante*, p. 184.March substituted for July. *And be it further enacted, *That section twenty-six of the act aforesaid be so amended that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized in his discretion to make such regulations as shall enable vessels engaged in the coasting trade between ports and places upon Lake Michigan exclusively and laden with American productions and free merchandise only, to unlade their cargoes without previously obtaining a permit to unlade.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted, *That section twenty-five of said act be hereby amended by inserting the word “March ” in the place of “July,” in said section. Approved, February 18, 1867.