purpose, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. 4. That from and after the end of the present year, (in ad- 700,000 dolls. dition to the annual sum of seven million three hundred thous- appropriated to the sinking and dollars, yearly appropriated to the sinking fund, by virtue fund, in addiof the act, entitled "An act making provision for the redemption tion, &c. of the whole of the public debt of the United States,") a further Vol. ii. p. 862. annual sum of seven hundred thousand dollars, to be paid out of the duties on merchandise and tonnage, be, and the same hereby is, yearly appropriated to the said fund, making, in the whole, an annual sum of eight millions of dollars, which shall be vested in the commissioners of the sinking fund, in the same manner, dolls. in the shall be applied by them for the same purposes, and shall be, in the comwhole, vested and continue, appropriated, until the whole of the present debt missioners of of the United States, inclusively of the stock created by virtue fund, &c. of this act, shall be reimbursed and redeemed, under the same limitations as have been provided by the first section of the above mentioned act, respecting the annual appropriation of seven millions three hundred thousand dollars, made by the same. 8,000,000 the sinking to cause sum of 700,000 paid, &c. dolls. to be sioners of the 5. That the secretary of the treasury shall cause the said The secretary further sum of seven hundred thousand dollars to be paid to the of the treasury commissioners of the sinking fund, in the same manner as was directed by the above mentioned act, respecting the annual appropriation of seven millions three hundred thousand dollars; and it shall be the duty of the commissioners of the sinking fund to cause to be applied and paid, out of the said fund, yearly and every year, at the treasury of the United States, such sum and sums as may be annually wanted to discharge the annual interest and charges accruing on the stock created by virtue of this act, and the several instalments, or parts of principal, of the said stock, as the same shall become due, and may be discharged, in conformity to the terms of the convention aforesaid, and of this act. [Approved, November 10, 1803.] CHAP. [5.] An act to repeal the act, entitled “An act to allow a drawback of duties on The commissinking fund to cause to be paid, yearly, charges, and instalments, of the stock created by this the interest, act, &c. Obsolete. goods exported to New Orleans, and therein to amend the act, entitled "An act to regu- Vol. i. p. 751. late the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." ed. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the act, passed on the fifth day The fact menof April, one thousand eight hundred, entitled "An act to allow tioned, repeala drawback of duties on goods exported to New Orleans, and therein to amend the act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," be, and the same hereby is, repealed. [Approved, November 25, 1803.] CHAP. [6.] An act to repeal an act, entitled "An act to establish an uniform system of Obsolete. bankruptcy throughout the United States." bankruptcy 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the act of congress, passed on the The act to esfourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred, entitled "An tablish an uniact to establish an uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the form system of United States," shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Pro- repealed. vided, nevertheless, That the repeal of the said act shall, in no wise, affect the execution of any commission of bankruptcy which may have been issued prior to the passing of this act, but Proviso; the repeal of the act not to afcution of any fect the exe commission of every such commission may and shall be proceeded on, and fully bankruptcy executed, as though this act had not passed. [Approved, December 19, 1803.] previously issued, &c. Vol. ii. p. 1075, 1235. vol. iii. p. 1587, 1720. Annual com pensations, &c. Secretary of state. Secretary of the treasury Secretary of war. the navy. CHAP. [12.] An act continuing, for a limited time, the salaries of the officers of government therein mentioned. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the last day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, the following annual compensations, and no other, be, and they are hereby, granted to the officers herein enumerated, respectively, that is to say: To the secretary of state, five thousand dollars. The secretary of the treasury, five thousand dollars. The secretary of war, four thousand five hundred dollars. The secretary of the Secretary of navy, four thousand five hundred dollars. The attorney general, Attorney gen- three thousand dollars. The comptroller of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars. The treasurer, three thousand dollars. The auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars. The register of the treasury, two thousand four hundred dollars. The accountant of the war department, two thousand dollars. Accountant of The accountant of the navy department, two thousand dollars. The postmaster general, three thousand dollars; and the assistant postmaster general, one thousand seven hundred dollars; which sums shall be respectively paid quarter yearly, at the treasury of the United States. eral. Comptroller of Treasurer. Register. the war, &c. Assistant postmaster general. Limitation of § 2. That this act shall continue in force for three years, and this act, &c. from thence until the end of the next session of congress thereafter, and no longer. [Approved, February 20, 1804.] The same du law, are laid to be laid and CHAP. [13.] An act for laying and collecting duties on imports and tonnage within the territories ceded to the United States by the treaty of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French republic; and for other purposes. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the same duties which by law now ties which, by are, or hereafter may be, laid on goods, wares, and merchandise, on goods, &c. imported into the United States, on the tonnage of vessels, and imported into on the passports and clearances of vessels, shall be laid and colthe U. States, lected on goods, wares, and merchandize, imported into the territories ceded to the United States by the treaty of the thirtieth goods, &c. im of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the Lerritories United States and the French republic; and on vessels arriving Acts extend- in, or departing from, the said territories: and the following ed, &c. to the acts, that is to say: the act, entitled "An act to establish the collected on ported into the ceded, &c. ceded terri tories. treasury department." "An act concerning the registering and recording of ships and vessels." "An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries." "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." "An act to establish the compensations of officers employed in the collection of the duties on imports and tonnage, and for other purposes." "An act for the more effectual recovery of debts due from individuals to the United States," "An act to provide more effectually for the settlement of accounts between the United States and receivers of public money." "An act to authorize the sale and conveyance of lands in certain cases, by the marshals of the United States, and to confirm former sales:" and "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned." may be enact force and ef. • "An act to establish a mint, and to regulate the coins of the United States." "An act regulating foreign coins; and for other purposes:" And the acts supplementary to, and amendatory of, the two last Other acts, in mentioned acts, or so much of the said acts as is now in force, force or that and also so much of any other act or acts of the United States, ed, to have full as is now in force, or may be hereafter enacted, for laying any fect in the terduties on imports, tonnage, seamen, or shipping, for regulating ritories ceded. and securing the collection of the same, and for regulating the compensations of the officers employed in the collection of the same; for granting and regulating drawbacks, bounties, and allowances in lieu of drawbacks; concerning the registering, recording, enrolling, and licensing, of ships and vessels; to provide for the settlement of accounts between the United States and individuals; for the recovery of debts due to the United States; and for remitting forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities: shall extend to, and have full force and effect in, the abovementioned territories: Provided, however, and it is hereby further Ships or vesenacted, That ships or vessels which, on the twentieth day of the 20th Dec. December last, were owned by persons then residing in the 1803, were above mentioned territories, and who either were citizens of the owned by perUnited States, or had resided in the said territories during five &c. five years next precedyears next preceding, shall be entitled to the benefits and privi- ing, entitled to leges of ships or vessels of the United States, whilst they shall the privileges of ships or vescontinue to be wholly owned by such persons, or by citizens of sels of the U. the United States: Provided, nevertheless, That the persons claim- States, &c. ing such privileges for their ships or vessels, shall, in every other persons respect, comply with the provisions of the acts for registering, claiming the privileges for recording, enrolling, and licensing, of ships or vessels, and who, their vessels if not citizens of the United States, shall have previously taken to comply an oath of allegiance to the United States, which oath the col- visions of lector of the port is hereby authorized to administer. sels which, on sons resident, Proviso; with the pro the acts for registering, government seamen, &c. 2. That so much of any act or acts of the United States, enrolling, &c. now in force, or which may be hereafter enacted, concerning the Acts for the bank of the United States, and for the punishment of frauds and relief of committed on the same; for the relief of sick and disabled sea- to extend to, men; for the protection of American seamen; for the govern- and have efment and regulation of seamen in the merchant service; fect in, the and territories. for preventing the exportation of goods not duly inspected, shall extend to, and have full force and effect in, the above mentioned territories. as is inconsis $3. That so much of any law or laws, laying any duties on So much of the importation, into the United States, of goods, wares, and any laws,&c. merchandise, from the said territories, (or allowing drawbacks tent, &c. reon the importation of the same from the United States to the pealed, &c. said territories) or respecting the commercial intercourse between the United States and the said territories, or between the several parts of the United States through the said territories, which is inconsistent with the provisions of the preceding section, be, and the same hereby is, repealed; and all duties on the All duties, &c. exportation of goods, wares, and merchandise, from the said ter- those laid by other than United States, the laws of the ritories, as well as all duties on the importation of goods, wares, to cease, &c.' and merchandise, into the said territories, on the transfer of ships or vessels, and on the tonnage of vessels, other than those laid by virtue of the laws of the United States, shall, from the time when this act shall commence to be in force, cease and deterProviso; noth- mine: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall ing herein to be construed to affect the fees and other charges usually paid in the said territories on account of pilotage, wharfage, or the right of anchoring by the levée of the city of New Orleans, which several fees and charges shall, until otherwise directed, continue to be paid and applied to the same purposes as heretofore. affect the fees, &c. on ac count of pilot age, wharfage, &c. The territories the waters, the collection and revenue laws, &c. § 4. That, to the end that the laws providing for the colceded, and all lection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares, and mer&c. for carry-chandise, imported into the United States, and on the tonnage ing into effect of ships and vessels, and the laws respecting the revenue and navigation of the United States, may be carried into effect within the said territories, the territories ceded to the United States, by the treaty abovementioned, and also all the navigable waters, rivers, creeks, bays, and inlets, lying within the United States, which empty into the gulf of Mexico, east of the river Mississippi, shall be annexed to the Mississippi district, and shall, together with the same, constitute one district, to be called the New Orleans "district of Mississippi." The city of New Orleans shall be the the sole port of sole port of entry in the said district, and the town of Bayou St. John shall be a port of delivery; a collector, naval officer, and surveyor, shall be appointed to reside at New Orleans, and a surveyor shall be appointed to reside at the port of Bayou St. The president John; and the president of the United States is hereby authormay appoint, ized to appoint, not exceeding three surveyors, to reside at such not exceeding three survey- other places, within the said district, as he shall deem expedient, and to constitute each, or either, of such places ports of Any law es- delivery only. And so much of any law or laws, as establishes tablishing a district on the a district on the river Mississippi, south of the river Tennessee, Mississippi, is hereby repealed, except as to the recovery and receipt of such &c. except, entry, &c. ors, &c. &c. Natchez to be a district; &c. destined for duties on goods, wares, and merchandise, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels, as shall have accrued, and as to the recovery and distribution of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, which shall have been incurred before the commencement of the operation of this act. § 5. That the shores and waters of the town of Natchez shall and the only be one district, to be called the district of Natchez, and a colport of entry lector shall be appointed, who shall reside at Natchez, which or delivery for foreign goods, shall be the only port of entry or delivery within the said district, of any goods, wares, and merchandise, not the growth or Proviso; mas- manufacture of the United States: Provided, nevertheless, That it ters of vessels shall be the duty of every master or commander of any ship or Natchez, &c. vessel destined for the said port of Natchez, to stop at New Orleans, and there deliver, to the collector of said port, a manifest of the cargo on board such ship or vessel, agreeably to law, on at New Oter penalty of five thousand dollars. And it shall be the duty of leans to trans- said collector to transmit a certified copy of such manifest to the collector of the said port of Natchez, and to direct an inspector to go on board such ship or vessel, and proceed there The collector mit, &c. Vol. ii. p. 1073. with to the port of Natchez, and there report such ship or vessel to the collector of said port of Natchez, immediately after his arrival, when the duty of said inspector shall cease. to unlade, &c. citizens, com make entry Proviso; authorize to a port of 6. That foreign ships or vessels shall be admitted to unlade Foreign vesat the port of New Orleans, and at no other port within the dis- sels admitted trict of Mississippi; and ships or vessels, belonging to citizens of Vessels bethe United States, coming directly from France or Spain, or any longing to of their colonies, shall not be admitted to unlade at any port ing from within the district of Mississippi other than New Orleans and France or Spain, &c. ships or vessels arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, or from admitted to any place beyond the same, shall be admitted to make entry at unlade and the port of New Orleans, and at no other port within the district at New Orof Mississippi: Provided, however, That nothing in this act leans only, &c. contained, shall authorize the allowing of drawbacks on the ex- nothing in portation of any goods, wares, and merchandise, from the said port this act to of New Orleans, other than on those which shall have been im- drawbacks on ported directly into the same, from a foreign port or place. goods, &c. Vol. ii. p. 957. 7. That the master or commander of every ship or vessel, Masters of bound to a port of delivery only, other than the port of Bayou vessels bound St. John, in the district of Mississippi, shall first come to at the delivery only, port of New Orleans with his ship or vessel, and there make Bayou St. report and entry, in writing, and pay, or secure to be paid, all John, &c. pay legal duties, port fees, and charges, in manner provided by law, before such ship or vessel shall proceed to her port of delivery; and any ship or vessel, bound to the port of Bayou St. John, may first proceed to the said port, and afterwards make report and entry at the port of New Orleans, within the time by law limited; and the master of every ship or vessel arriving from a Masters of foreign port or place, or having goods on board, of which the vessels arriving from a duties have not been paid or secured, and bound to any port foreign port within the district of Mississippi, (other than New Orleans, or &c. to take an having goods, Bayou St. John) shall take an inspector on board at New Or- inspector on leans, before proceeding to such port; and if any master of a Orleans, &c. ship or vessel, shall proceed to such port of delivery contrary to Masters, &c. the directions aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay five hundred dolls. with dollars, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction, costs. with the costs of suit. other than duties, &c. board at New to forfeit 500 French ships, rectly from into New Or years, &c. 8. That during the term of twelve years, to commence three directly from France, &c. months after the exchange of the ratifications of the above men- and Spanish tioned treaty shall have been notified at Paris, to the French vessels digovernment, French ships or vessels, coming directly from Spain, &c. to France, or any of her colonies, laden only with the produce or be admitted manufactures of France, or any of her said colonies; and Span- leans, &c. ish ships or vessels, coming directly from Spain, or any of her during 12 colonies, laden only with the produce or manufactures of Spain, The receipt or any of her said colonies, shall be admitted into the port of of the act of New Orleans, and into all other ports of entry which may here- the treaty after be established by law within the territories ceded to the was acknowlUnited States by the above mentioned treaty, in the same man- French minner as ships or vessels of the United States, coming directly from ister of foreign affairs, France or Spain, or any of their colonies, and without being subject to any other, or higher, duty on the said produce or manufacture, than by law now is, or shall, at the time, be payaVOL. II. 95. ratification of edged by the &c. The 12 years 1816. |