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teen hundred and thirty, as to all ships and vessels belonging to that part of the district of Bridgeton, which lies northward of Alloway's creek, in the county of Salem.

Detroit collection district ex

1848, ch. 145.

SEC. 8. That all the waters, shores, inlets and harbors of Lake Michigan, lying south of a point fifty miles north of the mouth of Grand river, tended. on the east side, and the like distance north of the Milwaukee river on the west side of said lake, shall be, and hereby are, attached to, and made a. part of, the collection district of Detroit, in the Territory of Michigan, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Port of entry

and district of Newark, New

SEC. 9. That, from and after the thirtieth day of September next, all that part of the State of New Jersey, lying north and east of Elizabethtown and Staten Island, extending eastward as far as the mouth of the Jersey. Kill Van Kull, where it empties into the bay of New York, with all the waters of the Passaick and Hackensack rivers, shall form a collection district, to be called the district of Newark, of which the town of Newark shall be the port of entry.

SEC. 10. That a collector for the said district shall be appointed, to reside at Newark, who shall give bond with security, as provided by law, for the true and faithful performance of the duties of his office, in the sum of five thousand dollars, and shall be allowed three per centum on all moneys received on account of the duties arising on goods, wares, and merchandise imported, and on the tonnage of ships and vessels; and the said collector shall also receive, in addition to his other fees and emoluments allowed by law, the annual sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, subject, however, to the limitations provided by law.

SEC. 11. That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to remove the seat of the custom-house of the district of Frenchman's bay, in the State of Maine, from its present situation to the town of Ellsworth, in said district.

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Appointment

and duties of collector.

Custom-house at Frenchman's bay to be removed to Ells

worth.

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Stat. at Large,

Vol. IV. p. 741.

Spanish ves

after March, to

Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the first day of March next, Spanish vessels coming from the island of Cuba, or Porto Rico, either di- sels from Cuba rectly, or after touching at any port or place, shall pay, in the ports of the or Porto Rico, United States, such further tonnage duty in addition to the tonnage duty pay a tonnage which may be payable under any other law, as shall be equivalent to the duty equal to amount of discriminating duty that would have been imposed on the car- discriminating goes imported in the said vessels, respectively, if the same had been ex- can bottoms. ported from the port of Havana, in American bottoms.

SEC. 2. That before any such vessel shall be permitted to clear out or depart from a port of the United States, with a cargo which shall be directly or indirectly destined to either of the said islands, the said vessel shall pay such further tonnage duty as shall be equivalent to the amount of discriminating duty that would be payable, for the time being, upon the cargo, if imported into the port of Havana, in an American bottom.

duty on Ameri

SEC. 3. That no Spanish vessel shall be allowed to clear out or depart Spanish vessels from a port of the United States, with any goods, wares, or merchan- clearing out, excepting for Cuba dise, except upon a destination to some port or place, in the Island of Cuba or Porto Rico, to or Porto Rico, without giving bond, with approved security, in double the give bond that value of the vessel and cargo, that the said cargo, or any part thereof, cargo shall be no part of the shall not be landed in either of the said islands; which bond shall be can- landed in those islands. celled on producing of certificate from an American consul, that the said cargo has been landed elsewhere, bona fide and without intention to reship it for a port in one of the said islands.

Secretary of the Treasury to

SEC. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, from time to time, to estimate the said additional tonnage duty, estimate the ad

ditional tonnage and to give directions to the officers of the customs of the United States, duty, and direct officers of the for the collection of such duties, so as to conform the same to any variation which may take place in the discriminating duties levied on the cargoes of American vessels in the said port of Havana.

customs.

Act to cease,

if Spain abolish

her discriminating duties on American ves

SEC. 5. That whenever the President of the United States shall be satisfied, that the discriminating duties in favor of Spanish bottoms, levied upon the cargoes of American vessels in the ports of Cuba and Porto Rico, have been abolished, or whenever, in his opinion, a satisfactory arrangesels in Cuba and ment upon the subject of the said duties shall have been made between the United States and Spain, the President is hereby authorized to declare the same by proclamation, and thereupon this act shall cease to have any further force or effect.

Porto Rico.

No. 201.— March 3, 1835.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. XXXIII.— An Act to prescribe the Punishments of Consuls, Commercial Agents, Vol. IV. p. 773. and Others in certain Cases.

Fine and imprisonment for giving false certificates.

Be it enacted, &c. That if any consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, shall knowingly and falsely certify to any invoice, or other papers to which his certificate is by law authorized or required, he shall, on conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction, forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, at the discretion of the court, and be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three years, at the like discretion.

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Stat. at Large, CHAP. XL. - An Act in Amendment of the Acts for the Punishment of Offences against Vol. IV. p. 775.

Revolt and mu

ital offence.

the United States.

Be it enacted, &c. That if any one or more of the crew of any Ameritiny on board a can ship or vessel on the high seas, or on any other waters within the advessel to be punished by fine and miralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, shall unlawfully, imprisonment, wilfully, and with force, or by fraud, threats, or other intimidations, usurp and not as a cap- the command of such ship or vessel from the master or other lawful commanding officer thereof, or deprive him of his authority and command on board thereof, or resist or prevent him in the free and lawful exercise thereof, or transfer such authority and command to any other person not lawfully entitled thereto, every such person so offending, his aiders or abettors, shall be deemed guilty of a revolt or mutiny and felony; and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding two thousand dollars; and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor not exceeding ten years, according to the nature and aggravation of the offence. And the offence of making a revolt in a ship, which now is, under and in virtue of the eighth section of the act of Congress, passed the thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety, punishable as a capital offence, shall, from and after the passage of the present act, be no longer punishable as a capital offence, but shall be punished in the manner prescribed in the present act, and not otherwise.

1790, ch. 9.

Punishment

for an endeavor

to make a revolt

or mutiny, &c.

SEC. 2. That if any one or more of the crew of any American ship or vessel on the high seas, or any other waters, within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, shall endeavor to make a revolt or mutiny on board such ship or vessel, or shall combine, conspire or confederate with any other person or persons on board to make such revolt or mutiny, or shall solicit, incite or stir up any other or others of the crew to disobey or resist the lawful orders of the master, or other officer of such ship or vessel, or to refuse or neglect their proper duty on board thereof, or to betray their proper trust therein, or shall assemble with others in a tumultuous and mutinous manner, or make a riot on board

thereof, or shall unlawfully confine the master, or other commanding officer thereof, every such person so offending shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or by both, according to the nature and aggravation of the offence.

Punishment of

officer for mal

crew.

SEC. 3. That if any master or other officer, of any American ship or vessel on the high seas, or on any other waters within the admiralty and master or other maritime jurisdiction of the United States, shall from malice, hatred or treating one or revenge, and without justifiable cause, beat, wound, or imprison, any one more of the or more of the crew of such ship or vessel, or withhold from them suitable food and nourishment, or inflict upon them any cruel and unusual punishment, every such person so offending shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or by both, according to the nature and aggravation of the offence.

SEC. 4. That whenever any person indicted for offence against the any United States, whether capital or otherwise, shall his arraignment upon stand mute, or will not plead or answer thereto, it shall be the duty of the court to enter the plea of not guilty on his behalf, in the same manner as if he had pleaded not guilty thereto. And when the party shall plead not guilty, or such plea shall be entered as aforesaid, the cause shall be deemed at issue, and shall, without further form or ceremony, be tried by a jury. And in all trials in capital cases, if the party indicted shall peremptorily challenge above the number of jurors allowed by law, such excess of challenges shall be disallowed by the court, and the cause shall proceed for trial in the same manner as if the same [said] challenges had not been made.

Procedure in

case a person arraigned shall stand mute, &c.

Challenge.

Court may or

der sentence to

SEC. 5. That whenever any person shall be convicted of any offence against the United States which is punishable by fine and imprisonment, be executed in or by either, it shall be lawful for the court by which the sentence is house of correcpassed, to order the sentence to be executed in any house of correction, tion, &c. or house of reformation for juvenile delinquents within the State or district where such court is holden, the use of which shall be allowed and authorized by the legislature of the State for such purpose. And the expenses attendant upon the execution of such sentence shall be paid by the United States.

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Stat. at Large,

CHAP. LV.-An Act in Addition to the Act of the twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, entitled "An Act to authorize the Licensing of Vessels to Vol. V. p. 16. be employed in the Mackerel Fishery.”

1793, ch. 8.

Be it enacted, &c. That vessels duly licensed under the provisions of Vessels li"An act to authorize the licensing of vessels to be employed in the mack-censed for the mackerel fishery erel fishery," passed May twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and not subject to twenty-eight, shall not be deemed or taken to be liable to the forfeitures forfeitures, &c. Act of May imposed by the fifth and thirty-second sections of the act of Congress, 1828, ch. 109. approved the eighteenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same," in consequence of any such vessel, whilst licensed as aforesaid, having been engaged in catching cod, or fish of any other description whatever, Provided, however, That this act shall not be deemed or considered as authorizing or entitling the owner or owners of any vessel licensed for the mackerel fishery, to receive the bounty allowed by law to 298, § 4. vessels employed in the cod fishery.

Proviso.

See 1866, ch.

No. 204. MAY 9, 1836.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. LIX. — An Act making Appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic Expenses of Vol. V. p. 17. Government for the Year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.

Statements to be presented to

executive departments, &c.

SEC. 2. That it shall be the duties of the Secretaries of State, of the Congress by the Treasury, of the War and Navy Departments, and of the PostmasterGeneral, and the secretary of the Senate, and clerk of the House of Representatives, to lay before Congress, in lieu of the statement now required by law, during the first week in each annual session of Congress, a statement of the expenditures made by them respectively from the contingent funds of their respective departments and offices; that of the Secretary of State to include all the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, and of all the missions abroad except such expenditures as are settled upon the certificate of the President; said statements to be abstracts of the accounts with the names of all persons to whom payments have been made and the amount paid to each.

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Stat. at Large, CHAP. LXXVII. An Act explanatory of the Act entitled "An Act to prevent DefulVol. V. p. 31. cations on the Part of the Disbursing Agents of the Government, and for other Purposes."

Act of Jan. 1828, ch. 2, not to apply to pen

sions.

Stat. at Large, Vol. V. p. 133.

Stat. at Large,
Vol. V.
P. 52.

The surplus

above 5,000,000

dollars to be deposited with the several States.

Be it enacted, &c. That, the act entitled "An act to prevent defalcations on the part of the disbursing agents of the government, and for other purposes," approved the twenty-fifth of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, shall not be construed to authorize the pension of any pensioner of the United States to be withheld.

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No. 7. A Resolution providing for the Distribution of Weights and Measures. Resolved, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is directed to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted as standards, and now either made or in the progress of manufacture for the use of the several custom-houses, and for other purposes, to be delivered to the Governor of each State in the Union, or such person as he may appoint, for the use of the States respectively, to the end that an uniform standard of weights and measures may be established throughout the United States.

No. 207. JUNE 23, 1836.

CHAP. CXV. — An Act to regulate the Deposits of the Public Money.*

SEC. 13. That the money which shall be in the treasury of the United in the Treasury States, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, reserving the sum of five millions of dollars, shall be deposited with such of the several States, in proportion to their respective representation in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, as shall, by law, authorize their treasurers, or other competent authorities to receive the same on the terms hereinafter specified; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall deliver the same to such treasurers, or other competent authorities, on receiving certificates of deposit therefor, signed by such Act of Oct. 2, competent authorities, in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary 1837, ch. 1. aforesaid; which certificates shall express the usual and legal obligations, and pledge the faith of the State, for the safe keeping and repayment thereof, and shall pledge the faith of the States receiving the same, to pay

* All of this act excepting sections 13 and 14, was repealed by the act of August 18, 1841, ch. 7, § 3.

the said moneys, and every part thereof, from time to time, whenever the same shall be required, by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of defraying any wants of the public treasury, beyond the amount of the five millions aforesaid: Provided, That if any State declines to receive its proportion of the surplus aforesaid, on the terms before named, the same shall be deposited with the other States, agreeing to accept the same on deposit in the proportion aforesaid: And provided further, That when said money, or any part thereof, shall be wanted by the said secretary, to meet appropriations by law, the same shall be called for, in ratable proportions, within one year, as nearly as conveniently may be, from the different States, with which the same is deposited, and shall not be called for, in sums exceeding ten thousand dollars, from any one State, in any one month, without previous notice of thirty days, for every additional sum of twenty thousand dollars, which may at any time be required.

SEC. 14. That the said deposits shall be made with the said States in the following proportions, and at the following times, to wit: one quarter part on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, or as soon thereafter as may be; one quarter part on the first day of April, one quarter part on the first day of July, and one quarter part on the first day of October, all in the same year.

No. 208. — JULY 4, 1836.

CHAP. CCCLIX. · An Act to suspend the Discriminating Duties upon Goods imported in Vessels of Portugal, and to reduce the Duties on Wines.

Proportions in which the de

posits shall be

made.

Stat. at Large, Vol. V. p. 125.

Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the several acts of Congress as imposes a discriminating duty upon goods, wares, and merchandise, imported ed. in foreign vessels, be, and hereby is, suspended, so far as respects the produce or manufactures of Portugal proper, including Madeira, Porto Santo, and the Azores, when imported in vessels wholly and truly belonging to the subjects or citizens of said places; so that such produce or manufactures shall be subject to the same duties only as if imported in vessels of the United States: Provided, however, And [that] this suspension shall continue no longer than this section remains in force.

Acts suspend

Proviso.

Wines may be put into customhouse stores, &c.

SEC. 3. That all kinds of wine, whether imported before or after the passage of this act, may be put into the custom-house stores, under the bond of the importer or owner; and such of the said wines as shall remain under the control of the proper officer of the customs, on the thirtieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, shall be subject to no other duty than if the same were imported after that day; and if the duties or any part thereof, on the wines deposited, as aforesaid, shall have been paid previous to the said thirtieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, the amount of excess of duty shall be refunded to the person importing and depositing the same: Provided, That no wines shall be so deposited unless in the casks or bottles as imported: And provided Proviso. further, That the benefit of this act shall not be extended to any wines not entitled to debenture.

Proviso.

No. 209.-JULY 4, 1836.

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CHAP. CCCLXIV. - An Act to repeal so much of the Act of March second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as respects the Issuing of Certificates on the Importation of Wines.

Stat. at Large,

Vol. V. p. 131.

See 1865, ch.

Be it enacted, &c. [That so much of the act of Congress, passed second March, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as requires that the surveyor or chief officers of 80, § 10. Also inspection of any port, where wines may be landed, shall give to the proprietor, im- 1866, ch. 201, § porter or consignee thereof, or his or her agent, a certificate, as mentioned in the fortieth and forty-first sections of said act, is hereby repealed.]

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