Collectors constituted agents of De

tors of hospitals.

and after the receipt of regulations No. 68, the officers then in office, and the officers thereafter to be appointed, will be entitled to compensation only from the delivery of said oath and bond.

808. The collector of the district in which each hospital partment and visi- is situated is constituted the agent of this Department, and visitor of the hospital: in the former capacity, to pay the necessary expenses, as provided in these regulations; and in the latter, to inspect the hospital, and report, from time to time, on its management. The collector of each district is requested to ascertain if any gentlemen of leisure and position, taking an interest in the proper management Honorary visitors. thereof, will act, in conjunction with him, as honorary visitors, and, if so, will report their names to this Department for appointment, without compensation as such, and for the necessary instructions for the performance of their duties. It is desirable that there shall be three such honorary visitors, and that one shall be a physician, and one a gentleman versed in accounts and prices.

Duties of collectors in whose districts

cated.

809. It is hereby made the duty of each collector in hospitals are lo- whose district there is a marine hospital, to visit the hospital at or about the end of each month, and at such other times as may be necessary to enable him fully to understand its course of management, and he will make report, immediately after such monthly visit, upon the following points:

District in which

there are hospitals

1st. The number of patients, and their general treatment and comfort;

2d. The condition of the house, grounds, and furniture; 3d. The character and attention of the officers and ser

vants;

4th. Upon the quantities and qualities, and prices paid for supplies, and upon the due application or preservation of the same;

5th. Whether a strict economy is observed in the purchase and use of supplies, or whether there is any improper application or waste;

6th. Whether these regulations are strictly observed.

810. Collectors of districts in which there are hospitals

of classes Nos. 2 of classes Nos. 2 and 3 will likewise make report to the

and 8.

Department, at the end of each month, upon the three points first above mentioned, so far as sick seamen are concerned.

ular supplies to be

tract.

811. The ordinary and regular supplies for marine hos- Ordinary and regpitals will be obtained by contract, to be made for one year, obtained by concommencing on the 1st of July and ending on the 30th June following. On the 1st day of May of each year, the collector of each district in which there is a marine hospital, will obtain from the physician thereof an estimate, founded upon the ordinary number of patients, of the quantities likely to be required, of the articles named in these regulations, as the proper articles of supply. Printed lists of these articles are to be provided, and annexed to the form of proposal, hereinafter given; and the quantities so estimated are to be inserted, in manuscript, in as many copies as are likely to be required under the following notice, which will be published once a week, for a period of at least sixty days, in two newspapers of the place, having the largest circulation therein:

Notice for propo

sals to be published

in

two newspapers.

Notice is hereby given, that sealed proposals, accom- Form of notice. panied by proper guarantees, according to forms to be furnished on application at this office, will be received thereat, until 12 o'clock meridian on the first Tuesday in June next, for the supply of the marine hospital at (or near) this city, with the articles of provision, medicine, &c., enumerated in said forms. The quantities stated are estimated with reference to the usual number of patients in the hospital; but the United States reserves the right to take more or less of said articles, accordingly as they may be actually required. If the articles delivered at the hospital are not, in the judgment of the physician, of the best quality, and adapted to the hospital, he will be at liberty to reject the same, to purchase other articles in their stead, and to charge the contractor with any excess in cost over the contract prices.

Form of proposal.

The United States reserves the right to accept the proposals for the whole or any portion of the articles specified. Collector.

FORM No. 254.

Form of proposal.

I, -, hereby offer to furnish the articles hereinafter mentioned, at the several prices set opposite to the said articles respectively, and agree to enter into a contract, if my proposal shall be accepted in whole or in part, for the same, agreeably to your advertisement of the 1st of May,

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(Here follows list of articles and prices.)

We, the undersigned, hereby guaranty the above proposal, and bind ourselves to the United States in the sum of one thousand dollars, to be paid in liquidated damages, in the event of the failure of the bidder to execute a contract agreeably to his proposal, with sureties, to be approved by the collector of the customs to whom it is addressed, within one week after the said collector shall give written notice that his proposal in whole or in part is accepted.

Witnesses:

[SEAL.] [SEAL.]

Collector to open proposals, in con

val officer and sur

mit same to Department.

On the said first Tuesday in June, at 12 o'clock mejunction with na- ridian, the collector will open the proposals which he may veyor, and trans- have received, in conjunction with the naval officer or surveyor, if there be either at the port, or, if not, with some other respectable person, and in the presence of such bidders as may attend, and he will publicly announce the bids, and make a transcript (short copy) thereof, and he, and the officer or person acting in conjunction with him, will certify the same. The collector will then transmit all the proposals to the Department, with the said transcript, and his opinion on the relative eligibility of the said proposals, respectively. When the decision of the Department shall have been made known to the said collector, he will immediately give notice in writing to the successful bidder, by causing the same to be left, by a reliable officer,

at his usual place of business. The contract thereupon to be entered into will be executed in triplicate; two to be transmitted to the Department for its use and that of the accounting officers, and one, after being recorded in the hospital, to be retained by the collector.

lectors as agents

be rendered

812. The accounts of all collectors of the customs, as Accounts of colagents of marine hospitals, are to be rendered monthly, of marine hospital and will be subject, in other respects, to the regulations monthly. of the Department in Section IV, Chapter IV, on the subject of accounts, so far as the same may be applicable thereto. They will also be subject to the orders of the Department, touching the appointment of officers, the employment of servants, &c., of which the collector will keep a record. The collector will pay the strictest attention to these orders, the contracts for supplies, and these regulations, and will not pay any bills contracted in violation of them.

tions to be

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A copy of these regulations will be sent to each collector of the customs, who will acknowledge the receipt Receipt of regulathereof. A sufficient number will also be sent to the knowledged. physician of each hospital, for himself, and for each of the officers of the hospital, who will obtain the acknowledgment of receipt thereof from the said officers, and transmit them, with his own, to the Department.

CHAPTER VH.

STATISTICS OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION.

SECTION I.

Register of Treasury, under direc

AN ACT to provide for obtaining accurate statements of the foreign commerce of the United States. (February 10, 1820.)

ART. 813. Be it enacted, &c., That the Register of the tion of Secretary: Treasury shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the

to

prepare annual

ly, and submit to

cal accounts of the

of the States.

United

Congress, statisti- Treasury, annually prepare statistical accounts of the foreign commerce commerce of the United States with foreign countries for each preceding year; which accounts shall be laid before Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the first Monday in December in every year, or as soon after as possible.

Scope of such ac

counts.

Principles and

manner of stating

imports.

814. That such accounts shall comprehend and state all goods, wares, and merchandise exported from the United States to other countries; all goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States from other countries; and all navigation employed in the foreign trade of the United States; which facts shall be stated according to the principles, and in a manner, hereby directed.

815. That the kinds, quantities, and values of all the exports and articles exported, and the kinds, quantities, and values of all articles imported, shall be distinctly stated in such accounts; except in cases in which it may appear to the Secretary of the Treasury that separate statements of the species, quantities, or values of any particular articles would swell the annual statements without utility; and, in such cases, the kinds and total values of such articles. shall be stated together, or in such classes as the Secretary of the Treasury may think fit.