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Privileges to proprie

tors of certain tille.

How col

lector may demand

duties on Rilis.

does not exceed one hundred gallons, may be permitted to enter fuch ftill, for any term of time less than one year, and not less than one month, paying at the fame rate as per month, any thing in any former law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That a perfonal demand of the proprietor or proprietors of any ftill, of the duties due, or a notice in writing of the amount thereof, left at his dwelling by the collector, fhall have all the effect of a demand made, as required by the twenty-third fection of the act, intitled, “ An act repealing after the laft day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon diftilled fpirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead; and also upon spirits diftilled within the United States, and for appropriating the fame."

Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That all And cer- fines, penalties and forfeitures, which fhall have tain fines, been incurred by force of any prefent or fu mitigated ture law of the United States, for the laying,

&c. may be

or remitted.

levying and collecting of any duties or taxes, other than duties on goods, wares and merchandize imported, and on the tonnage of fhips and veffels, fhall and may be mitigated. or remitted, by the like ways and means, and upon and under the like conditions, regulations and restrictions, as are contained, prescribed, authorised and directed, in and by the act, intitled, "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures and penalties accruing under the revenue laws in certain cafes, therein mentioned," touching fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred or accruing in relation to the cafes therein mentioned; which act and every claufe, matter and thing therein

contained, fhall be of like force and effect, for the mitigating or remitting of fines, penalties and forfeitures, which shall have been incurred in reference to the faid other duties and taxes, as if the fame were repeated and reenacted, in the feveral and respective laws for laying, levying and collecting the faid other duties and taxes.

courts may

&c. of

Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That How ftate the judicial courts of the feveral ftates, to judicial whom, by this act, a jurisdiction is given, fhall obtain miand may exercise all and every power, in the tigation, cafes cognizable before them, for the purpose fines, & of obtaining a mitigation or remiffion of any fine, penalty or forfeiture, which may be exercifed by the judges of the diftrict courts, in cafes depending before them: The said statecourts firft caufing reasonable notice to be given to the perfon or perfons claiming fuch fine, penalty or forfeiture, and to the attorney, who may, under warrant from the attorney of the district, profecute, for the United States, in fuch court, that each may have an opportunity of fhewing cause against the mitigation or remiffion thereof.

act extend

penalties,

Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That Provifions the act, intitled, "An act repealing, after the of certain laft day of June next, the duties heretofore ed for relaid upon diftilled fpirits imported from abroad, covery of and laying others in their stead, and alfo upon &c. under fpirits diftilled within the United States, and this. for appropriating the fame ;" and the act, intitled, "An act concerning the duties on spirits diftilled in the United States," fhall extend to, and be in full force, for the recovery and distribution of the penalties and forfeitures herein contained, and, generally, for the execution of this act, as fully and effectually, as

if every regulation, reftriction, penalty, pro-
vifion, claufe, matter and thing, therein con-
tained, were inferted in, and re-enacted, by
this prefent act, fubject only to the alterations
hereby made.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,
Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.

RALPH IZARD, Prefident of the

Senate, pro tempore.

APPROVED, June the fifth, 1794:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

Punish

ment on

perfons ac

cepting certain commifLons,

On enlift

CHAPTER L.

An Act in Addition to the Act for the Punishment of certain Crimes against the United States.

Sec. 1.

BE

E it enacted and declared by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That if any citizen of the United States fhall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the fame, accept and exercife a commiffion to ferve a foreign prince or ftate in war, by land or fea, the perfon fo offending fhall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and fhall be fined not more than two thousand dollars, and fhall be imprifoned not exceeding three years.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted and deing, &c. to clared, That if any perfon fhall within the tergo beyond jurifdiction ritory or jurifdiction of the United States, enlift of U. S. or enter himself, or hire or retain another per

fon to enlift or enter himself, or to go beyond the limits or jurifdiction of the United States, with intent to be enlifted or entered in the fervice of any foreign prince or state as a foldier, or as a marine or feaman on board of any veffel of war, letter of marque or privateer, every perfon fo offending fhall be deemed guilty of a high mifdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding one thoufand dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding three years. Pro- Provifo, vided, That this fhall not be construed to extend to any subject or citizen of a foreign prince or state, who fhall tranfiently be within the United States, and fhall on board of any veffel of war, letter of marque or privateer, which, at the time of its arrival within the United States, was fitted and equipped as fuch, enlift or enter himself, or hire or retain another fubject or citizen of the fame foreign prince or state, who is tranfiently within the United States, to enlift or enter himself to ferve fuch prince or state on board fuch veffel of war, letter of marque or privateer, if the United States fhall then be at peace with such prince or state. And provided further, That if any perfon fo enlifted, fhall, within thirty days after fuch enliftment, voluntarily discover, upon oath, to fome juftice of the peace, or other civil magistrate, the perfon or perfons by whom he was fo enlifted, fo as that he or they may be apprehended and convicted of the faid offence; fuch person so discovering the offender or of fenders, fhall be indemnified from the penalty prescribed by this act.

Punishment on fit

Sec 3. And be it further enacted and declared, That if any perfon fhall, within any of the ports, harbours, bays, rivers, or other wa- ting out ters of the United States, fit out and arm, of war, or if VOL. III.

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fhips of

tain commiffions.

fuing cer- attempt to fit out and arm, or procure to be fitted out and armed, or fhall knowingly be concerned in the furnishing, fitting out or arming of any fhip or veffel, with intent that such ship or vessel fhall be employed in the service of any foreign prince or ftate, to cruife or commit hoftilities upon the fubjects, citizens or property of another foreign prince or ftate, with whom the United States are at peace, or fhall iffue or deliver a commiffion within the territory or jurifdiction of the United States, for any fhip or veffel, to the intent that fhe may be employed as aforefaid, every fuch perfon, fo offending, fhall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of a high mifdemeanor, and fhall be fined and imprisoned at the difcretion of the court in which the conviction shall be had, fo as the fine to be impofed fhall in no cafe be more than five thousand dollars, and the term of imprisonment fhall not exceed three years, and every fuch fhip or veffel, with her tackle, apparel and furniture, together with all materials, arms, ammunition and ftores, which may have been procured for the building and equipment thereof, fhall be forfeited, one half to the use of any perfon who fhall give information of the offence, and the other half to the use of the United States.

On increaf

menting force of

any hip,

&c.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted and declared, ing or aug. That if any perfon fhall within the territory or jurifdiction of the United States, encrease or augment, or procure to be encreafed or augmented, or shall be knowingly concerned in encreafing or augmenting the force of any fhip of war, cruifer or other armed veffel which at the time of her arrival within the United States, was a fhip of war, cruifer or armed vessel in the fervice of a foreign prince or ftate, or belonging

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