Chapter 164. To amend section twenty-eight hundred and eighty of the Revised Statutes of the United States, fixing time for vessels to unlade
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CHAP. 164.— An Act To amend section twenty-eight hundred and eighty of the Revised Statutes of the United States, fixing time for vessels to unlade.May 9, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section twenty-eight Shipping. Unlading of vessels. hundred and eighty of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows:" “Sec. 2880. Whenever any merchandise shall be imported into any Time for unlading of vessels extended.
R. S., sec. 2880, p. 558, amended. port of the United States from any foreign port, in any vessel, at the expiration of ten working days if the vessel is less than five hundred tons register, and within fifteen working days if it is of five hundred 116FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 164, 167, 168. 1896. tons register and less than one thousand, and within twenty working days if it is of one thousand tons register and less than fifteen hundred, and within twenty-five working days if it is of fifteen hundred tons register and upward, not including legal holidays and days when the condition of the weather prevents the unfolding of the vessel with safety to its cargo, after the time within which the report of the master of any vessel is required to be made to the collector of the district, if there is found any merchandise other than has been reported for some other district or some foreign port, the collector shall take possession thereof; but with the consent of the owner or consignee of any merchandise, or with the consent of the owner or master of the vessel in which the same may be imported, the merchandise may be taken possession of by the collector after one day’s notice to the collector of the district.
All merchandise so taken shall be delivered pursuant to the order of the collector of the district, for which a certificate or receipt shall be granted.”" Approved, May 9, 1896.