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AN ACT

Respecting seizures made under the authority of the United States, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in by claimants when Congress assembled, That when any prosecution

Costs to be paid

there was a rea

Fonable cause for seizures.

Proviso.

shall be commenced on account of the seizure of
ship or vessel, goods, wares or merchandize, made
by any collector or other officer, under any act of
Congress authorizing such seizure, and judgment
shall be given for the claimant or claimants, if it
shall
to the court before whom such prose-
appear
cution shall be tried, that there was a reasonable
cause of seizure, the said court shall cause a pro-
per certificate or entry to be made thereof; and in
such case the claimant or claimants shall not be
entitled to costs, nor shall the person who made
the seizure, or the prosecutor, be liable to action,
suit or judgment on account of such seizure and
prosecution: Provided, That the ship or vessel,
goods, wares or merchandize be, after judgment,
forthwith returned to such claimant or claimants,
his, her or their agent or agents.

[Section 2 authorizes the treasury to allow the collector of New-York the amount of damages recovered from and paid by him.]

Approved, 24th February, 1807. 2 Ses. 9 Con.

AN ACT

To change the name of the district of Biddeford and Pepperelborough, in Massachusetts, to that of Saco.

Name of Saco sup

of Biddeford, &c.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the district at present stituted for that called the district of Biddeford and Pepperelborough, in Massachusetts, shall in future be called the district of Saco, and that the Collector, of the said district, be permitted to reside in Saco or Collector to reside Biddeford, and that all the provisions of the several acts of congress, that relate to the district of Biddeford and Pepperelborough, shall be, and the same are hereby continued in full force, with respect to the district of Saco.

Act 15th December, 1807. 1 sess. 10 con.

at Saco,

AN ACT

To make Plymouth, in North-Carolina, a port of entry; to change the name of the district of Nanjemoy, to that of St. Mary's, and to make Augusta, in the district of Maine, a port of delivery.

District of Ply

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, a district shall be of that of Edenformed out of the district of Edenton, in North

See antea page 8.

mouth formed out

ton.

the port of entry, &c.

Carolina, to be called the district of Plymouth,* which shall include and comprehend the rivers Roanoake and Cashie, and all the waters, creeks, Plymouth mad and harbors belonging thereto. The town of Plymouth shall be the port of entry and delivery; and Windsor and Skewarky, ports of delivery. A collector for the district shall be appointed, to reside and keep his office at the town of Plymouth, who shall be entitled to receive three per cent. commissions on all monies by him received, on account of the duties arising on goods, wares and merchandize imported into the said district, and on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and the other emoluments and fees of office established by law.

Name of district of Nanjemoy changed to that of St. Mary's.

Augusta made a

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the district of Nanjemoy,† in the state of Maryland, shall be called the district of St. Mary's, and the collector shall reside at St. Mary's river, which shall be the port of entry and delivery for said district, and Nanjemoy a port of delivery only, to which a surveyor shall be appointed, who shall be entitled, in addition to the fees and emoluments already allowed by law, to receive a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the be annexed to the town of Augusta,‡ in the district of Maine, shall

port of delivery to

district of Bath,

&c.

be, and the same is hereby constituted a port of
delivery, to be annexed to the district of Bath,
and subject to the same regulations and restric-
tions, as other ports of delivery in the United
States; and there shall be appointed a surveyor,

*See antea page 31. †See Antea page 24.
See antea page 9.

to reside at the said port of delivery, who shall be entitled to receive a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars annually, in addition to the other emoluments allowed by law.

25th April, 1808, 1 Ses. 8 Con.

AN ACT

To allow the benefit of drawback on merchandize transported by land conveyance from Newport to Boston, and from Boston to Newport, in like manner as if the same were transported coastwise.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amerca, in Congress assembled, That all goods, wares and merchandize, duly imported into either of the ports of Boston and Newport, which shall be transported by land conveyance from the port of Newport, by the way of Rhode-Island bridge and Taunton, to Boston; or from Boston, by the same route, to Newport, and which being imported into Newport, shall be exported from Boston: or which being imported into Boston shall be exported from Newport, shall be entitled to the bene'fit of a drawback of the duties upon exportation, to any foreign port or place, under the same provisions, regulations, restrictions and limitations, as if the said goods, wares and merchandize were transported coastwise from one to another of the said districts; and on the proviso that all the provisions, regulations, limitations and restrictions,

existing in the case of goods, wares and merchandize, transported by any of the routs mentioned in the seventy-ninth section of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," passed the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, shall be duly observed.

Act 25th April, 1810. 2 Sess. 11 Con.

Letters to be deli

masters from vessels, previous to

their being per

mitted to report, &c,

AN ACT

Regulating the Post office establishment..

Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That no vered to the post ship or vessel arriving at any port within the United States, where a post office is established, shall be permitted to report, make entry, or break bulk, until the master or commander shall have delivered to the post master, all letters directed to any person or persons within the United States, or the territories thereof, which, under his care, or within his power, shall be brought in such ship or vessel, except such as are directed to the owner or consignee of the ship or vessel, and except also such as are directed to be delivered at the port of delivery, to which such ship or vessel may be bound.

Masters of vessels to take an oath as

And it shall be the duty of the collector, or to the delivery of other officer of the port, impowered to receive entries of ships or vessels, to require, from every

letters, &c.

See antea page 158.

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