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or vessel, whose register for carrying on the coasting trade or fisheries shall expire, a new register before the master or owner of such ship or vessel shall have paid to the proper receiving officer at the port an hospital duty of five cents per ton.

SEC. 4. Each and every steamship or other vessel engaged in the foreign or coasting trade of the United States on board of which there are constantly and regularly employed as sailors three American boys or apprentices, under the age of eighteen years, for every four hundred registered tons thereof, shall be entitled to an abatement of one-half of the hospital duty on such vessel, on the production of proof satisfactory to the collector of the regular and constant employment as sailors of said boys or apprentices, supported by the oath of the master and mate, in such form as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, provided that not more than ten boys shall be required for any one vessel to be entitled to the reduction aforesaid; and any steamship or other vessel of less than five hundred and more than three hundred tons, on board of which there are regularly and constantly employed as sailors three American boys or apprentices, under the age of eighteen years, shall be entitled to the like reduction; and every steamship or other vessel of three hundred tons burden or less, on board of which there are constantly and regularly employed as sailors two American boys or apprentices, under the age of eighteen years, shall be entitled to the like reduction.

SEC. 5. The moneys so collected, together with such countervailing, discriminating, or other tonnage duties as may be levied and paid on ships or vessels, and the duty of five per centum paid on the issue of registers to American-built vessels sold to foreigners and repurchased by citizens of the United States, and all that proportion of all fines, penalties, and forfeitures accruing to the United States for violations of the provisions of the revenue, registering, navigation, and passenger laws, and all fees authorized and required by law for recording and copying bills of sale, conveyances, mortgages, and hypothecations of ships and vessels or other papers, shall be paid into the treasury of the United States; and the same be, and are hereby, appropriated for the relief of sick and diabled seamen.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of any collector of the customs within whose district any marine hospital may be situated, to act, whenever so required by the Secretary of the Treasury, as the superintendent thereof; and in districts in which there shall be no marine hospital, it shall be the duty of the collector thereof to act as the agent for the disbursement of the hospital fund in said district; and the said collectors shall be governed by such regulations, and carry into effect such arrangements for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, and shall render such accounts and at such times, as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe and direct.

SEC. 7. All sick or disabled seamen, composing, in whole or in part, the crew of any foreign vessel entered at any port in the United States, and all sick and disabled seamen employed in the foreign, coasting trade, and fisheries of the United States, may receive hospital relief, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and the several collectors of the customs and superintend

ents of marine hospitals shall make returns to the Secretary of the Treasury, in such form and within such times as he shall prescribe, of all hospital dues received and moneys expended for the relief of sick and disabled seamen at their respective ports.

SEC. 8. The quarantines and other restraints which shall be required and established by the health laws of any State, or pursuant thereto, respecting any vessels arriving in or bound to any port or district thereof, whether from a foreign port or place. or from another district of the United States, shall be duly observed by the collectors and all other officers of the revenue of the United States, appointed and employed for the several collection districts of such State, respectively, and by the masters and crews of the several revenue cutters, and by the military officers who shall command in any fort or station upon the seacoast; and all such officers of the United States shall be, and they hereby are, authorized and required faithfully to aid in the execution of quarantines and health laws, according to their respective powers and precincts, and as they shall be directed from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury. And the said Secretary shall be, and he is hereby, authorized, when a conformity to such quarantines and health laws shall require it, and in respect to vessels which shall be subject thereto, to prolong the terms limited for the entry of the same, and the report or entry of their cargoes, and to vary or dispense with any other regulations applicable to such reports or entries. But nothing herein shall enable any State to collect a duty of tonnage or impost, without the consent of the Congress of the United States thereto; and no part of the cargo of any ship or vessel shall, in any case, be taken out or unladen therefrom, otherwise than as by law is allowed, or according to the regulations hereinafter established.

SEC. 9. When by the health laws of any State, or by the regulations which shall be made pursuant thereto, any vessel arriving within a collection district of such State shall be prohibited from coming to the port of entry or delivery by law established for such district, and it shall be required or permitted by such health laws that the cargo of such vessel shall or may be unladen at some other place within or near to such district, the collector authorized therein, after due report to him of the whole of such cargo, may grant his especial warrant or permit for the unlading and discharge thereof, under the care of the surveyor or of one or more inspectors, at some other place where such health laws shall permit, and upon the conditions and restrictions which shall be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, or which such collector may for the time reasonably judge expedient for the security of the public revenue; and in every such case all the articles of the cargo so to be unladen shall be deposited at the risk of the parties concerned therein, in such public or other warehouses or enclosures as the collector shall designate, there to remain under the joint custody of such collector and of the owner or owners, or master, or other person having charge of such vessel, until the same shall be entirely unladen or discharged; and until the goods, wares, or merchandise which shall be so deposited may be safely removed without contravening such health laws, and when such removal may be allowed, the collector having charge of such goods, wares, or

merchandise may grant permits to the respective owners or consignees, their factors, or agents, to receive all goods, wares, or merchandise which shall be entered, and the duties accruing thereon shall be paid or secured according to law, upon the payment by them of a reasonable rate of storage, which shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury for all public warehouses and enclosures.

SEC. 10. There shall be purchased or erected, under the orders of the President of the United States, suitable warehouses, with wharves and enclosures, where goods and merchandise may be unladen and deposited from any vessel which shall be subject to a quarantine or other restraint, pursuant to the health laws of any State as aforesaid, at such convenient place or places therein as the safety of the public revenue and the observance of such health laws may require.

SEC. 11. When, by the prevalence of any contagious or epedemical disease in or near the place by law established as the port of entry for any collection district, it shall become dangerous or inconvenient for the collector and the other officers of the revenue employed therein to continue the discharge of their respective offices at such port, the Secretary of the Treasury may direct and authorize the removal of the collector and the other officers employed in his department from such port to any other more convenient place within, or as near as may be to, such collection district where such collector and officers may exercise the same authorities, and shall be liable to the same duties, according to existing circumstances, as in such lawful port or district; and of such removal public notice shall be given as soon as may be.

SEC. 12. The act approved sixteenth July, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled "An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen," together with the subsequent acts amendatory thereof, and also the act approved February twenty-fifth, seventeen hundred and ninetynine, entitled "An act respecting quarantine and health laws," are hereby repealed. But nothing in this act contained shall in anywise prevent or obstruct the prosecution, recovery, distribution, or remission of any fine, penalty, forfeiture, action, or cause of action, whether of civil or criminal jurisdiction, which shall have accrued prior to the day this act shall go into effect, under and by virtue of any of the laws by this act repealed, for which purpose the said laws shall continue in force.

SEC. 13. This act shall go into effect and be in force on and after day of, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred

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A BILL regulating the importation of drugs and medicines.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, as follows:

SECTION 1. All drugs, medicines, medicinal preparations, including medicinal essential oils, and chemical preparations used wholly or in in part as medicines, imported into the United States from a foreign country or place, shall, before passing the custom-house, be examined and appraised, as well in reference to their quality, purity, strength, and fitness for medicinal purposes, as to their value and identity as stated in the invoice.

SEC. 2. All medicinal preparations, whether chemical or otherwise, shall have the true name of the manufacturer and the place where prepared permanently and legibly affixed to each parcel by stamp, label, or otherwise; and all such preparations imported contrary nereto shall be seized and forfeited to the United States.

SEC. 3. If, on an analytical examination, any drugs, medicines, or medicinal preparations, whether chemical or otherwise, including medicinal essential oils, are found to be adulterated, or in any manner. deteriorated, so as to make them unfit in strength or purity for medicinal use, or unsafe and dangerous for medicinal purposes, a return to that effect shall be made by the examiner upon the invoice, and the article so noted shall not pass the custom-house, unless, on a re examination called for by the owner or consignee, it shall be declared by the report of the re-examiners that the return of the examiner is erroneous, and that the articles may properly, safely, and without danger, be used for medicinal purposes.

SEC. 4. All articles of merchandise used wholly or in part as medicines, or in the preparation of medicines, shall be subject to examination under this act; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall, from from time to time, prescribe the degree of purity and strength of all such articles as may be imported as medicines, or to be used in the preparation of medicines, as a reliable guide to the examiner and reexamination as herein provided.

SEC. 5. The owner or consignee of any articles liable to examination under this act, when dissatisfied with the examiner's return, shall have the right to call for a re-examination, at his own expense, on depositing with the collector a sum sufficient to cover the expense thereof; and thereupon it shall be the duty of the collector to procure a competent analytical chemist, possessing the confidence of the medical profession in the collection district; and said chemist shall make a careful analysis of the articles included in said return, and report upon the same under oath, and the said report shall be final; and in case it shall declare the report of the examiner to be erroneous, and the said articles to be of the required strength and purity, and that the articles may properly, safely, and without danger, be used for medicinal purpose, the articles shall be passed on payment of the duties imposed by law; but if the report of the chemist shall sustain the report of the examiner, in whole or in part, the article reported against shall remain in custody of the collector, but the owner or consignee, on

payment of the storage and other charges and expenses, and giving a bond to re-export the same without the limits of the United States, shall have the right to do so within six months from the date of entry; but, failing to re-export the same, or importing the same again into the United States, if re-exported, the collector shall cause them to be destroyed at the expense of the owner, and the owner or consignee shall be liable to pay the collector all charges and expenses as though the same had been re-exported.

SEC. 6. In order to carry into effect the provisions of this act, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to appoint suitably qualified persons as special examiners of drugs and medicines, as required by this act, viz: one examiner at each of the ports of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and San Francisco, with the following annual salaries, to wit: at New York two thousand dollars, and fifteen hundred dollars at each of the other ports.

SEC. 7. The special examiners to be appointed under this act shall, before entering on the discharge of the duties, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation to make just and true examinations and reports of all articles required by this act to be examined by them, without favor or partiality; and they shall perform any other duties the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize the collector to require of them.

SEC. 8. Coffee, imported in the berry, or otherwise, and teas, shall be examined by the inspector of drugs and medicines before passing the custom-house, and if found so damaged, adulterated, or deteriorated, as, in his opinion, to be unfit for use, shall be subject to the same provisions, prohibitions, and penalties as are prescribed in this act in the case of spurious and adulterated drugs and medicines.

SEC. 9. The act approved June twenty-six, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled "An act to prevent the importation of adulterated and spurious drugs and medicines," is hereby repealed. But nothing in this act contained shall in anywise prevent or obstruct the prosecution, recovery, distribution or remission of any fine, penalty, forfeiture, action or cause of action, whether of civil or criminal jurisdiction, which shall have accrued prior to the day this act shall go into effect, under and by virtue of any of the laws by this act repealed, for which purpose the said laws shall continue in force.

SEC. 10. This act shall go into effect, and be in force, on and after day of in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and

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