manifests to be delivered. transmit or cause to be transmitted, the said copy or copies of the said manifest or manifests, to the collector of that district, and the said master, or person having the charge or command of the said ship or vessel, shall afterwards produce and deliver the said original manifest or manifests to the said collector. ProProviso; as to vided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed the number of to require of such master or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, the delivery of more than one copy of each manifest to the officer or officers aforesaid, who shall first come on board of such ship or vessel, within four leagues of the coast of the United States aforesaid, and one other copy to such officer or officers, as shall first come on board, within the limits of any district for which the cargo of such ship or vessel, or some part thereof, shall be consigned or destined; or shall be construed to require the delivery of any such copy to any other officer; but it shall be sufficient, in respect to any such other officer, to produce and show to him the said original manifest or manifests, and the certificate or certificates thereupon. Forfeiture of 500 dolls. for § 12. That if the master, or other person having the charge not producing or command of any ship or vessel laden as aforesaid, and bound manifest, &c. to any port or place in the United States, shall not, upon his arrival within four leagues of the coast thereof, or within the limits of any district thereof, where the cargo of such ship or vessel, or any part thereof, is intended to be discharged, produce such manifest or manifests in writing, to the proper officer or officers, upon demand thereof, and also deliver such copy or copies thereof as aforesaid, according to the directions of this act in each case, or shall not give an account of the destination of such ship or vessel, which he is hereby required to do, upon request of such officer or officers, or shall give a false account of the said destination, in order to evade the production of the said manifest or manifests, the said master or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, shall forfeit, for every such refusal, neglect, or offence, a sum not exceeding five hunOfficers of the dred dollars. And if such officer or officers, first coming on customs to for- board in each case within the distance or limits aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse to certify on the back of such manifest or manifests, the production thereof, and the delivery of such copy or copies, respectively, as are hereinbefore directed to be delivered to such officer or officers; every such officer, so neglecting or refusing, shall for eit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars. 13. That if, after the arrival of any ship or vessel, so laden 1,000 dolls. with goods as aforesaid, and bound to the United States, within and the goods, the limits of any of the districts of the United States, or within for unlading without being four leagues of the coast thereof, any part of the cargo of such authorized by ship or vessel shall be unladen, for any purpose whatever, from the proper offi- out of such ship or vessel as aforesaid, within the limits or discer; except in case of una- tance aforesaid, before such ship or vessel shall come to the provoidable acci- per place for the discharge of her cargo, or some part thereof, dent, &c. of and shall be there duly authorized, by the proper officer or offiwhich notice must be given, cers of the customs, to unlade the same, the master or other peron oath. son having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, and the mate or other person next in command, shall, respectively, feit 500 dolls. for refusal or neglect to certify manifests. Forfeiture of forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars; and the goods, wares, and merchandise, so unladen and unshipped, shall be forfeited and lost, except in the case of some unavoidable accident, necessity, or distress of weather; of which unavoidable accident, necessity, or distress, the master or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, shall give notice to, and, together with two or more of the mariners on board such ship or vessel, shall make proof upon oath, before the collector or other chief officer of the customs of the district, within the limits of which such accident, necessity, or distress, shall happen, or before the collector or other chief officer of the first disirict of the United States, within the limits of which such ship or vessel shall afterwards arrive, if the said accident, necessity, or distress, shall have happened not within the limits of any district, but within four leagues of the coast of the United States, Oath before (which oath the said collector or other chief officer is hereby au- the collector, thorized and required to administer.) &c. &c. for unlad § 14. That if any goods, wares, or merchandise, so unladen Forfeiture of from on board of any such ship or vessel, shall be put or receiv- treble value, ed into any other ship, vessel, or boat, except in the case of such ing contrary to accident, necessity, or distress, as aforesaid, to be notified and law. proved as aforesaid, the said master, or other person having the charge or command of the ship, vessel, or boat, into which the said goods shall be so put and received, and every other person aiding and assisting therein, shall forfeit treble the value of the said goods; and the said ship, boat, or vessel, shall also be forfeited and lost. 400 dollars for &c. § 15. That if any ship or vessel, which shall have arrived Forfeiture of within the limits of any district of the United States, from any departing, afforeign port or place, shall depart, or attempt to depart, from the ter arrival, besame, unless to proceed on her way to some more interior dis. fore report or trict to which she may be bound, before report or entry shall entry; unless, have been made by the master, or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, with the collector of some district of the United States, the said master, or other person having such charge or command, shall forfeit and pay the sun of four hundred dollars. And it shall be lawful for any collec- In case of unlawful departtor, naval officer, surveyor, or commander of any of the cutters ure, cutters hereinafter mentioned, to arrest and bring back, or cause to be may bring vesarrested and brought back, such ship or vessel, to such port of the sels back, &c. United States to which it may be most conveniently done. Pro- Proviso; as to vided, That if it shall be made to appear, by the oath of the said master, or other person having the charge or command of such distress of ship or vessel, and of the person next in command, or other sufficient proof, to the satisfaction of the collector of the district within which such ship or vessel shall afterwards come, or to the satisfaction of the court in which the prosecution for such penalty may be had, that the said departure, or attempt to depart, was occasioned by distress of weather, pursuit or duress of enemies, or other necessity, the said penalty shall not be incurred. § 16. That within twenty-four hours after the arrival of any ship or vessel from any port or place, at any port of the United States established by law, at which an officer of the customs re departure occasioned by weather, pursuit of ene mies, &c. Report to be made within hours after ar twenty-four rival. hours; unless, &c. sides, or within any harbor, inlet, or creek thereof, if the hours of business at the office of the chief officer of the customs at such port will permit, or as soon thereafter as the said hours will permit, the master, or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, shall repair to the said office, and shall make report to the said chief officer of the arrival of the said ship Further report or vessel; and within forty-eight hours after such arrival, shall in forty-eight make a further report to the collector of the district in which such port may be, of the name, burthen, and lading, of such ship or vessel, whether in packages or stowed loose, and of the particular marks, numbers, and contents, of each package, and the place or places, person or persons, to or for which or whom they are respectively consigned or destined, also of the place or places where she took in her lading, of what country built, from what foreign port or place she last sailed, who was master or commander of her during the voyage, who is at the time of such report master or commander of her, and (if a vessel of the United States) who are owners of her; unless the whole of such information, required on the second report as aforesaid, shall have been given at the time of making the first report, in which case it shall not be necessary to make a further report. And in the cases in which the master, or person having the charge or command of any ship or vessel, hereinbefore required to have on board, at the time of her departure from such foreign port or place for the United States, a manifest or manifests of the lading of such ship or vessel, or of any part thereof, the said master, or person having the said charge or command, shall, at the time Manifest to be of making the said report, deliver the said manifest or manifests to the collector to whom the said report shall be made, and shall declare to the truth of such manifest or manifests, as the same ought to be, in conformity to the directions of this act. delivered at the time of making the report. Declaration that nothing passage; except, &c. And the said master, or person having the charge or command of any has been unla- such ship or vessel, shall, in each case, declare that no part of den, &c. on the her lading, since her departure from the said foreign port or place from whence she shall be so reported to have last sailed, has been landed or unladed, or otherwise removed from on board of her, except as he shall then specify, together with the cause, Further decla- time, place and manner; and shall further declare, that in case ration to rehe shall afterwards discover or know of any goods, wares, or port, &c. merchandise, other than those by him then reported, he will forthwith thereafter make report thereof to the said collector: which report and declarations, respectively, shall be in writing, signed by the party making the same, and shall be attested by his oath, to the best of his knowledge and belief; and the said collector is hereby authorized and required to administer the same. Forfeiture of And if the said master, or person having the charge or command 1,000 dolls. for of any such ship or vessel, shall neglect or omit to make the neglect to said reports, or either of them, and declaration or declarations, or to deliver the said manifest or manifests, or to take the said oath, as the case may require, he shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars. Declaration, on oath, &c. make declaration, &c. Not necessary for ships of war and pack § 17. Provided always, That it shall not be necessary for the ets to make re- master, or person having the charge or command of any ship port and entry. or vessel of war, or of any ship or vessel employed by any prince or state, as a public packet for the conveyance of letters and despatches, and not permitted by the laws of such prince or state to be employed in the transportation of goods, wares, or merchandise, in the way of trade, to make such report and entry as aforesaid. same vessel. § 18. That it shall be lawful for the said ship or vessel to pro- Goods, &c. arceed with any goods, wares, or merchandise, brought in her, riving in a diswhich shall be reported by the said master, or other person hav- trict, reported to be destined ing the charge or command of the said ship or vessel, to be for a foreign destined for any foreign port or place, from the district within port, to prowhich such ship or vessel shall first arrive, to such foreign port ceed without or place, without paying or securing the payment of any duties duty, in the upon such of the said goods, wares, or merchandise, as shall be actually re-exported in the said ship or vessel accordingly; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. Pro- Proviso; as to vided always, That the said master, or person having the charge bond and sureor command of the said ship or vessel, shall first give bond, with ty not to land one or more sureties, in a sum equal to the amount of the duties the goods without entry upon the said goods, wares, and merchandise, as the same shall and payment be estimated by the collector to whom the said report shall be of duties. made, to the satisfaction of the said collector, with condition that the said goods, wares, or merchandise, or any part thereof, shall not be landed within the United States, unless due entry thereof shall have been first made, and the duties thereupon paid or secured according to law, which bond shall be cancelled in like manner as bonds hereinafter directed to be given for obtaining drawbacks of duties. Provided, nevertheless, That such Proviso; as bond shall not be required in respect to the goods on board of to goods on any ship or vessel which shall have put into the United States putting in from necessity, to be made appear in manner hereinafter pre- from necesscribed. board vessels sity. ing foreign § 19. That it shall be lawful for any ship or vessel, in which Vessels bringany goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be brought into the goods, &c. United States, from any foreign port or place, to proceed with may proceed the same from district to district, within the United States, in with them order to the landing or delivery thereof; and the duties on such to district, of the said goods only as shall be landed in any district, shall be paid, or secured to be paid, within such district. from district paying duty only as they are landed. Vessels bring different dis be delivered at 20. That before any ship or vessel shall depart from the district in which she shall first arrive, for another district, with ing foreign goods, wares, or merchandise, brought in such ship or vessel, goods, &c. to from a foreign port or place, the duties whereof shall not have be unladen in been paid or secured, the master, or person having the charge tricts, to ob or command of such ship or vessel, shall obtain from the collec- tain copy of tor of the district from which she shall be about to depart, (who report, &c. to is hereby required to grant the same) a copy of the report made the next disby such master, or person having the charge or command of such trict in twenship or vessel, certified by the said collector, together with a ty-four hours after the arricertificate of the quantity and particulars of the goods, which val; except shall appear to him to have been landed within his district. And Georgia, within twenty-four hours after the arrival of such ship or vessel where report within any other district, the said master, or person having charge in forty-eight is to be made hours. Proviso; as or command of such ship or vessel, shall make report or entry, to or with the collector of such other district, producing and showing the said certified copy of his said first report, together with a certificate from each collector of any other district, within which any of the goods, wares, or merchandise, brought in such ship or vessel, shall have been before landed, of the quantity and particulars of such of the said goods, wares, and merchandise, as shall have been so landed in each district, respectively; except in the state of Georgia, where such report shall be made within forty-eight hours: Provided always, That the master, or person having the charge or command of the said ship or vessel, shall first give bond, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the collector of the district within which the said ship or vessel shall first arrive, in a sum equal to the amount of the duties on the residue of the said goods, according to such estimate as the said collector shall form thereof, with condition that the said residue of the said goods shall be duly entered and delivered in such other district or districts of the United States, for which the same shall have been reported to be destined. And the said bond shall be cancelled or discharged by the proproducing cer- duction of a certificate or certificates from the collector or coltificate of en- lectors of the district or districts for which the said goods shall try and deliv- have been reported, testifying the due entry and delivery of the said goods, in such district or districts, or upon due proof, to the satisfaction of the collector by whom the said bond shall have been taken, that such entry and delivery were prevented by some unavoidable accident or casualty, and that if the whole or any part of the said goods, shall not have been lost, that the same has been duly entered and delivered within the United States. And if the master, or person having charge or command of any such ship or vessel, shall fail, by his neglect or fault, to obtain the said copy of his said report from the collector of the district from which he shall be so about to depart, or of any certificate which he ought to obtain as aforesaid, or shall neglect to produce and show the same to the collector of any other district to which the said ship or vessel shall afterwards proceed, within the time for that purpose hereinbefore specified, he shall forfeit and pay, for every such neglect or omission, five hundred dollars. Bond to be ery of the residue goods, &c. Forfeit of 500 dolls, for neglect in obtaining and producing copy of report, certificate, &c. Owners of consignees, &c. to make entry of within fifteen master's re § 21. That the owner or owners, consignee or consignees, of any goods, wares, or merchandise, on board of any such ship or vessel, or in case of his, her, or their absence or sickness, his, goods import- her, or their known factor or agent, in his, her, or their names, ed, upon oath, within fifteen days after report of the master, or person having days after the the charge or command of such ship or vessel, to the collector of the district for which such goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be destined, shall make entry thereof with the said collector, and shall specify in such entry the particular marks, numbers, and contents, of each package or parcel whereof they shall consist, or, if in bulk, the quantity and quality, together with the net prime cost thereof; and shall also produce to the said collector, if any such there be, the original invoice or invoices, or other documents in lieu thereof, and bill or bills of lading; all port. Original invoices, and bills of lading to be produc ed. |