of the crew, before the consul or commercial agent shall be authorized to notice such complaint, or proceed to appoint inspectors as therein provided. SEC. 7. That any person, not being an owner, who shall, on the high seas, wilfully, with intent to burn or destroy, set fire to any ship or other vessel, or otherwise attempt the destruction of such ship or other vessel, being the property of any citizen or citizens of the United States, or procure the same to be done, with the intent aforesaid, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall suffer imprisonment to hard labor, for a term not exceeding ten years, nor less than three years, according to the aggravation of the offence. Stat. at Large, Vol. IX. p. 442. 1799, ch. 22, § 3. Transfer of collection district. CHAP. XXIX.- An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the Collection of nine. Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the waters of the Narragansett Bay, and the shores, bays, harbors, creeks, and inlets, in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, as are within the county of Kent, including the port of East Greenwich, and that part of Warwick lying upon Greenwich Bay, is hereby taken from the collection district of Newport, in said State, and attached to, and made part of, the collection district of Providence. Stat. at Large, CHAP. XLIV.- An Act to amend the Act entitled "An Act to amend, in the Cases therein Vol. IX. p. 445. mentioned, the 'Act to regulate the Duties on Imports and Tonnage.'" 1806, ch. 45. defined. Collection dis- Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the passage of this act, the coltrict of Ocracoke lection district of Ocracoke, in North Carolina, shall embrace all the See act of Feb. Waters, shores, harbors, rivers, creeks, and inlets, within the limits herein25, 1867. after described, to wit: Commencing at Drum Inlet, on the sea-shore, twenty miles south of Ocracoke, thence running in a northerly direction to the Thoroughfare, so called, and through said Thoroughfare to Point Marsh, near the mouth of the Neuse River, thence to the point of Long Shoal in Pamlico Sound, thence across said sound in a southwesterly direction to the outer bar of Cape Hatteras Inlet, twelve miles northeast of Ocracoke, and thence along the sea-coast to Drum Inlet. Acts incon SEC. 2. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions sistent repealed. of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Stat. at Large, Vol. IX. p. 458. Port of New Be it enacted, &c. That the port of New Orleans shall be, and is hereby, Orleans extend- so extended as to embrace the whole parish of New Orleans on both sides ed. Stat. at Large, CHAP. LV. — An Act to provide for the Printing of the Annual Report upon Commerce Vol. IX. p. 459. The report to and Navigation. Be it enacted, &c. [That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treas be completed as ury to cause the annual report upon commerce and navigation to be completed early as practi- at as early a day before the first Monday in January in each year as is practi cable. cable. SEC. 2. That when completed, or in the course of its progress towards comple- To be printed tion, if that will give despatch to the business, the work of printing, under the and ready for desuperintendence of said secretary, shall be commenced, and the whole shall be livery by the 1st day of January printed and ready for delivery on or before the first day of January next ensu- annually. ing the close of the fiscal year to which the report relates.] See act 1866, Number of SEC. 3. That, until Congress shall otherwise direct, the Secretary of the ch. 298, § 13. Treasury shall cause to be printed, in the same manner as other printing copies, and disof the department, twenty thousand copies of said report, which shall be tribution. distributed as follows: first, the usual number for the use of the members of the two Houses and their officers; second, five hundred copies for the use of the Treasury Department; and thirdly, as nearly as may be, five thousand copies to the Senate, and thirteen thousand copies to the House, to be distributed by the members of each House. SEC. 4. That the report aforesaid, except such as are to be bound with other public documents, shall be substantially bound: Provided, That the expense thereof shall not exceed twelve and a half cents for each copy. Binding. Proviso. CHAP. LXV. An Act to Repeal so much of the Act approved eleventh of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, as extends the Provisions thereof to Macao. Stat. at Large, Vol. IX. p. 468. 1848, ch. 150. Judicial powers withdrawn from ministers Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the act "to carry into effect certain provisions in the treaties between the United States and China and the Ottoman Porte," giving certain judicial powers to ministers and consuls of and consuls of the United States in those countries, approved the eleventh day of August, the U. States as eighteen hundred and forty-eight, as extends jurisdiction over, or the right regards Macao. to exercise any of the powers conferred by said act in Macao, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. CHAP. LXIX. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to permit Vessels from Stat. at Large, the British North American Provinces to Lade and Unlade at such Places in any Collec- Vol. IX. p. 469. tion District of the United States as he may designate. Secretary of the Treasury au Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President of the United States, provided the latter shall thorized to perbe satisfied that similar privileges are extended to vessels of the United mit vessels from States in the colonies hereinafter mentioned, is hereby authorized, under British North American provsuch regulations as he may prescribe, to protect the revenue from fraud, inces to lade or to permit vessels laden with the products of Canada, New Brunswick, unlade at such Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward's Island, or either of places as he may designate, prothem, to lade or unlade at any port or place within any collection district vided the same of the United States, which he may designate; and if any such vessel privileges are exentering a port or place so designated, to lade or unlade, shall neglect or of the U. States refuse to comply with the regulations so prescribed by the Secretary of the by said provTreasury, such vessel, and the owner or owners, and master thereof, shall inces. be subject to the same penalties as if no authority under this act had been granted to lade or unlade in such port or place. CHAP. LXXIX. tended to vessels Stat. at Large, An Act to create additional Collection Districts in the State of California, and to change the existing District therein, and to modify the existing Collection Vol. IX. p. 508. Districts in the United States. districts in Cal. All abolished Be it enacted, &c. That there shall be in the State of California six Six collection collection districts, to wit: San Francisco, [Monterey, San Diego, Sacramento, Sonoma, and San Joaquin.] The district of San Francisco shall include all excepting San the territory, bays, harbors, rivers, and shores embraced within the counties Francisco. 1862, ch. 92, § 1. of San Francisco, Santa Clara, Contra-Costa, Marin, Mondocino, and Vol. xii. p. 411. District of San Trinidad, and a collector, naval officer, and surveyor for the district shall be appointed, to reside at the city of San Francisco, which shall be the sole port of entry for the district. Francisco de fined. Officers to be appointed. District of Monterey. District of San Diego. 1854, ch. 199. [The district of Monterey shall include all the territory, bays, harbors, rivers, and shores embraced within the counties of Monterey, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Cruz, and a collector shall be appointed for said district, to reside at the town of Monterey, which shall be the sole port of entry for the district. The district of San Diego shall include all the territory, bays, harbors, rivers, and shores of the counties of San Diego, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara; Vol. x. p. 345. and a collector shall be appointed for said district, to reside at the town of San Diego, which shall be the sole port of entry for said district. District of Sacramento. Collector. F District of So noma. Collector. District of San Joaquin. Santa Barbara and San Pedro made ports of delivery. Other officers, Appraisers. Laws relating to collection of the revenue, existing prior to act of 1849, ch. 110, extended to col lection districts of California and Oregon. Secretary of the Treasury au thorized to remit curred under certain circumstances. 1797, ch. 13. The district of Sacramento shall include all the territory, bays, harbors, rivers, and shores of the counties of Sacramento, Sutter, El Dorado, Yuba, Butte Yolo, Coluse, and Shasta; and a collector for the district shall be appointed to reside at Sacramento City, which shall be the sole port of entry for the district. The district of Sonoma shall include all the territory, bays, harbors, rivers, and shores embraced within the counties of Sonoma, Napa, and Solano, and a collector shall be appointed for said district, to reside at the town of Benicia, which, together with the town of Vallejo, shall be the sole port of entry for the district. The district of San Joaquin shall include all the territory, bays, harbors, rivers, and [shores] embraced within the counties of Calaveras, San Joaquin, Tualumne, and Mariposa, and a collector of the district shall be appointed to reside at the town of Stockton, which shall be the sole port of entry for the district. And the towns of Santa Barbara and San Pedro, in the collection district of San Diego, shall be, and are hereby, constituted ports of delivery for said districts, and surveyors shall be appointed to reside at each, with such other officers as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary for the public service.] SEC. 2. That in addition to the officers hereinbefore provided for, at the port of San Francisco, there shall be appointed two principal and two assistant appraisers for said port.* SEC. 3. That, until otherwise directed by Congress, the provisions of law in relation to the payment of expenses incidental to the collection of the revenue from customs, existing prior to the act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An act requiring all moneys receivable from customs and from all other sources to be paid immediately into the treasury without abatement or reduction, and for other purposes," shall be, and are hereby, inade applicable to the several collection districts in the State of California and the Territory of Oregon, anything in the aforesaid act to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 4. That in all cases of fine, penalty, or forfeiture mentioned and embraced in the act entitled "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting or mitigate fines the forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein and penalties in- mentioned," or in any act in addition to or amendatory of said act, that have occurred or may occur in the collection districts in the State of California and Territory of Oregon, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, if, in his opinion, the said fine, penalty, or forfeiture was incurred without wilful negligence or intention of fraud, to prescribe such rules and mode of proceeding to ascertain the facts, as, in his opinion, may be convenient and proper, without regard to the provisions of the act above referred to; and upon the said facts so to be ascertained as aforesaid, the said Secretary may exercise all the power conferred upon him in and by said act, as fully as he might have done had said facts been ascertained under and according to the provisions of said act: Provided, That where any ships or vessels, or any goods, wares, and merchandise, may have been subjected to seizure, or confiscation, or detention by any officer of the customs in the collection district of Upper California or the Proviso. The residue of this section was repealed by act of June 2, 1862, ch. 92. district of Oregon, prior to the passage of this act, and it shall be made to appear, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that the owner or owners of any such ships or vessels, or the owner or owners or importers of any such goods, wares, and merchandise, has or have sustained damage or loss by reason of any improper seizure, confiscation, or detention thereof, the said secretary is hereby authorized to extend such relief in the respective cases as he may deem just and proper. waukie created SEC. 5. That all the territory, harbors, rivers, and waters on the eastern The collection shore of the State of Wisconsin, bordering on Lake Michigan, lying south district of Milof the forty-fourth parallel of north latitude, heretofore embraced in the in Wisconsin. district of Chicago, as are contained within the limits and jurisdiction of 1864, ch. 130, § 4. the State of Wisconsin, shall be, and are hereby, constituted a collection district, to be called the district of Milwaukie, and a port of entry for said district is hereby established at Milwaukie; and Southport, Racine, Sheboygan, Green Bay, and Depére, shall be ports of delivery only. And the town of Waukegan, in the State of Illinois, in the collection district of Chicago, shall be a port of delivery also. And all the territory, harbors, rivers, and waters on the eastern shore of the State of Wisconsin, bordering on Lake Michigan and Green Bay, lying north of the said forty-fourth parallel of latitude, shall be, and the same are hereby, attached to, and made part of, the collection district of Mackinac, in the State of Michigan. Extension of the district of Mackinac. Collector to be SEC. 6. That there shall be appointed, in pursuance of law, a collector of the customs for the aforesaid district, who shall reside at the port appointed. of entry created by this act, together with such other subordinate officers of the customs as are provided for by law; and the compensation of said col- Compensation. lector shall be two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, together with such commissions and fees as are authorized by existing laws. SEC. 7. That deputy collectors of the customs shall be appointed and compensated for their services, in the mode prescribed by existing laws, to reside at the respective ports of delivery constituted by this act, and said officers shall exercise all the powers and duties vested in deputy collectors of the customs under existing laws. Deputy collectors. The collection district of Minnesota created. Collector to be SEC. 8. That all that part of the territory of the United States lying north of the northern boundary line of the States of Wisconsin and Iowa, and east of the Rocky Mountains, is hereby created a collection district, to be called the Minnesota district, whereof Pembina shall be the port of entry; and a collector shall be appointed who shall give the usual bond required of such officers, and who shall be entitled to a salary of twelve appointed. hundred dollars per annum, and who shall not receive any other compensation whatever in the shape of extra allowance or fees of any description whatever. per day Compensation. Deputy collector or an in spector. Ia. made a part SEC. 9. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized at his discretion to appoint a deputy collector or an inspector of the customs for said district, at a rate of compensation not to exceed three dollars when he is employed. SEC. 10. That the town of Jeffersonville, in the State of Indiana, shall Jeffersonville, be attached to, and made a part of, the port of delivery as now existing of the port of deat Louisville, in the State of Kentucky; and goods imported into the port livery of Louisof Louisville, in pursuance of existing laws, and destined for Jefferson- ville, Ky. ville, may be landed and warehoused under the provisions of the warehousing act of the sixth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, at Jeffersonville, under the custody and control of the surveyor of the port of Louisville. 1846, ch. 84. Memphis made ery. SEC. 11. That the town of Memphis, in the State of Tennessee, shall be a port of delivery, and shall be subject to the same regulations and a port of delivrestrictions as other ports of delivery in the United States; and there 1864, ch. 113, § 1. shall be appointed a surveyor of the customs, to reside at the said port, Surveyor to be who shall, in addition to his own duties, also perform the duties and appointed. 1831, ch. 87. Memphis atdistrict of New tached to the Orleans. Port of entry transferred to Toledo, Ohio. receive the salary and emolument of surveyors prescribed by the act of Congress passed on the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirtyone, providing for the payment of duties on imported goods at certain ports therein mentioned, the same being entitled "An act allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be received and paid at those places," and the said town of Memphis and the said port of delivery be, and the same is hereby, annexed to and made part of the collection district of New Orleans, and all the privileges and facilities afforded to Pittsburg, and Wheeling, and Cincinnati, &c., by the act of Congress of second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, be, and the same are hereby, extended to said port of Memphis. SEC. 12. That the port of entry now existing by law as the port of enin Miami, Ohio, try in the collection district of Miami, Ohio, be, and the same is hereby, changed and transferred to the town of Toledo, in the State of Ohio, and all the laws now in force in regard to said port of entry in the said collection district of Miami, be, and the same are hereby, declared to be in full force, and to apply to the new port of entry of Toledo, and the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the Archives and archives and custom-house of said district of of Miami to be transferred to custom-house to the town of Toledo. be transferred. town. Chelsea, Mass. SEC. 13. That the town of Chelsea in the State of Massachusetts, shall attached to dis- be attached to and made part of the port of entry and collection district of trict of Charles- Boston and Charlestown, in the State of Massachusetts, as now existing by law, and goods imported into the port of Boston and Charlestown, and destined for the port of Chelsea, may be landed and warehoused under the 1846, ch. 84. provisions of the warehousing act of sixth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, at Chelsea, under the custody and control of the collector of Boston and Charlestown, and the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint an inspector of customs for said port of Chelsea. Inspector. Evansville and New Albany made ports of delivery. SEC. 14. That the towns of Evansville and New Albany shall be ports of delivery, and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports of delivery in the United States: and there shall be appointed a surveyor of the customs to reside at each of said ports, who shall, in addition to their own duties, also perform the duties and receive the salary and emolument of surveyors, prescribed by the act of Congress, 1831, ch. 37. passed on the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, providing for the payment of duties on imported goods at certain ports therein mentioned, the same being entitled "An act allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be received and paid at those places,” and the said towns of Evansville and New Albany, and the said ports of delivery, be, and the same are hereby, annexed to, and made part of, the district of New collection district of New Orleans; and all the privileges and facilities afforded to Pittsburgh, and Wheeling, and Cincinnati, &c., by the act of 1831, ch. 87. Congress of second of March. eighteen hundred and thirty-one, be, and the same are hereby, extended to said ports of Evansville and New Albany. Attached to Orleans. Repeal of the act establishing a port of entry at Saluria, &c. 1847, ch. 57. 1866, ch. 293. Modification of act of 1845, ch. 70, allowing drawbacks on SEC. 15. [That so much of an act entitled "An act to establish a port of entry at Saluna, [Saluria,] in the State of Texas; and for other purposes," approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, as fixes the said port of entry at Sulana, and requires the residence of the collector to be there, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and hereafter the port of entry and the residence of the collector shall be at La Salle, in said district.] SEC. 16. That the provisions of the seventh section of the act entitled "An act allowing drawbacks upon foreign merchandise, exported in the original packages to Chihuahua and Santa Fe, in Mexico, and to the foreign merchan- British North American provinces adjoining the United States," approved third March, eighteen hundred and forty-five, be, and the same are hereby, dise. |