SECTION XVIII.-Abatement of duties for damage during the voyage of importation........ SECTION XIX. Of monies receivable and payable by public officers of the United States...... SECTION I.-Warehouses........................... SECTION II.-Entry for warehousing.. SECTION III-Entry for withdrawal from warehouse .................................. SECTION IV.-Printing of silks in bond, Pongees, and other plain white.. SECTION V. Of the transportation and exportation of goods to the adjacent British provinces. SECTION VI.-Inland exportation of goods in bond to ports and places in Mexico....... SECTION VIIL-Of the officers in charge of warehouses. 288 CHAPTER IV.-General powers and duties of officers connected with the collection of the revenue from customs....... SECTION I.-Collectors, naval officers, and surveyors SECTION II.-Of deposits by collectors of the customs.. SECTION III.-Payment of fees and disbursements......... SECTION IV.-Accounts of collectors and disbursing officers.... SECTION I.-An act to provide for obtaining accurate statements of the foreign commerce of the United States, (February 10, 1820.) SECTION II.-Regulations for statistical returns of commerce and navigation in pursuance of CHAPTER VIII.-Penalties, seizures, suits, the duties and compensation of the district attorneys of the United States, and the mitigation and remission of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and removal of disabilities...... SECTION I.-Prohibitions, penalties, and seizures.......... SECTION II.-Seizure of merchandise not exceeding one hundred dollars in value under act of SECTION III.—Remission of fines, penalties, forfeitures, and removal of disabilities.......... SECTION IV-District attorneys of the United States...... CHAPTER IX.-In reference to commercial intercourse with foreign nations under treaty stipulations and laws of the United States........ SECTION L.-Of vessels of nations with whom the United States have commercial relations, SECTION I.-Articles entitled to free entry........ SECTION II.-Articles liable to duty under the existing revenue laws....... SECTION III.-Proceedings on entry of articles claiming exemption from duty under the Reci- SECTION II.—Articles imported from foreign countries exempted from the payment of duty by SECTION III.-Articles chargeable with duty as decided by the Department SECTION IV.—Decisions on merchandise claimed to be entitled to free entry.. SECTION III.-Pilotage, unlading of cargoes, passenger returns, foreign vessels proceeding from port to port, and examination of baggage of passengers arriving in other than CHAPTER I. OF THE REGISTERING, ENROLLING AND LICENSING, LICENSING, cessary to vessels Ships or vessels possessed of the following marine papers, regularly and Marine papers nelegally issued, and in force, and no other, are deemed and denominated of the United ships or vessels of the United States, viz: registers, enrolments, and Sec. 1 Act Dec. 31, licenses. States. 1792, and Feb. 18, 1793. vessels are deem determined. 1792. All ships or vessels shall be deemed to belong to the port at or nearest to The ports to which which the owner resides, if there be but one owner, or if there be more ed to belong; how than one owner, to the port at or nearest to which the husband or acting sec. 3 Act Dec. 31, or managing owner usually resides. The name of every vessel and the port to which she belongs must be painted Name of vessel to on her stern, in white letters of not less than three inches in length, on stern. black ground. be painted on her Sec. 8 Act Dec. 81, 1792. Sec. 11 Act Feb. 18, 1798. SECTION I. VESSELS ENTITLED TO REGISTRY. char acter of registered ARTICLE 1. Registered vessels are those wholly owned Distinctive by citizens of the United States, and usually employed in vessels. a foreign trade, and possessed of certificates of registry. Vessels entitled to be registered under existing laws, are the United States, citizens thereof. First. Those built within the United States, and, at Vessels built in the time of application for registry, wholly owned by a owned wholly by citizen or citizens of the United States, never having been Sec. 2 Act Dec. 81, before documented as vessels of the United States and sold to a citizen or subject of a foreign power. 1792. the United States, ership. Second. Vessels built in the United States under foreign Vessels built in ownership, in whole or in part, duly recorded in pursu- under foreign ownance of law, on being purchased and wholly owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States, never having been registered, enrolled, or licensed under the laws of the United States. Vessels built in Third. Vessels built in a foreign country, and wrecked wrecked in waters within the waters of the United States, purchased and a foreign country of the United States. 1852. Vessels captured Sec. 1 Act Dec. 23, repaired by a citizen or citizens thereof, at a cost equal to three-fourths of the cost of the vessel when repaired. Fourth. Vessels captured in a war to which the United Sec. 2 Act Dec. 81, States are a party, by a citizen or citizens thereof, lawfully condemned as prize, and wholly owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States. in war. 1792. Vessels condemn Fifth. Vessels which have been adjudged to be forfeited breach of United for a breach of the laws of the United States, and wholly ed and forfeited for States laws. Sec. 2 Act Dec. 81, owned by a citizen or citizens thereof. 1792. SECTION II. ON THE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF PERMANENT AND Permanent and temporary certifi ART. 2. Certificates of registry may be considered as of cates of registry. two descriptions, viz: How to be distinguished on certifi copies. Permanent registers, being those granted by collectors to ships or vessels belonging to ports within their respective districts; Temporary registers, being those granted by collectors to ships or vessels not belonging to ports within their respective districts. Permanent certificates of registry will be distinguished cates, records, and from those that are temporary by writing the word permanent or temporary, in a strong engrossing hand, in the margin immediately above the number; and the same rule must be observed in respect to the copies and records. SECTION III. ON THE GRANTING OF CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRY. ART. 3. The requirements set forth in this section, and the forms prescribed, must be complied with, in order to |