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time, and particularly on the first Mondays in January and July in each year, examine and try the weights, measures, and all other instruments used in ascertaining the duties on imports, with standards to be provided by each collector at the public expense, and where disagreements or errors are discovered, he shall report the same to the collector, and obey and execute such directions as he may receive for correcting the same, agreeably to the standards aforesaid; and the said surveyor shall, in all cases, be subject to the direction of the collector. And at ports to which a collector and naval officer only are assigned, the said collector shall solely execute all the duties which are by law enjoined upon the survey of the port where one is appointed; and at the ports to which a collector only is assigned, such collector shall solely execute all the duties in which the co-operation of the naval officer is requisite. And the said collectors, naval officers, and surveyors, shall keep fair and true accounts and records. of all their transactions as officers of the customs, in such manner and form as may, from time to time, be directed by the proper department, or officer having the superintendence of the collection of the revenue of the United States; and shall, at all times, submit the bocks, papers, and accounts, to the inspection of such persons as may be appointed for that purpose; and the said collectors shall, at all times, pay to the order of the officer who shall be authorized to direct the payment thereof, the whole of the moneys which they may respectively receive by virtue of law, and shall, once in every month, or oftener if they shall be required, transmit their accounts for settlement to the officer or officers whose duty it shall be to make such settlement; and if any collector, naval officer, or surveyor, shall omit to keep fair and true accounts as aforesaid, or shall refuse to submit forthwith the books, papers, and accounts to inspection as aforesaid, or if any collector shall omit or refuse to render his accounts for settlement for a term exceeding one month after the same shall have been required by the proper officer, in each and every such case the delinquent officer shall forfeit and pay for the use of the United States one thousand dollars, to be recovered, with costs of suit, and such other damages as the United States may sustain.

SEC. 7. The collectors appointed for ports of delivery shall have the same power and authority in all respects as collectors at the ports of entry, in all things pertaining to the business of their office, except that they shall not receive the entry of foreign goods, wares, and merchandise, nor permit them to be unladen until after a regular entry of the same shall have been made at the port of entry for the district and a permit received for unlading; and the deputy collectors appointed in pursuance of law for ports of delivery shall perform such duties as shall be assigned by the collector of the district, with the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury; and shall, if required, perform the duties of an inspector without additional compensation.

SEC. 8. No goods, wares, or merchandise shall be brought into the United States from any foreign port or place, in any ship or vessel, unless the master, or person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, shall have on board a manifest or manifests, in writing, signed by such master or other person, containing the name or names of the port or ports, place or places, where the goods in such mani

fest or manifests mentioned shall have been respectively taken on board, and the port or ports, place or places, within the United States for which the same are respectively consigned or destined; particularly noting the goods, wares, and merchandise destined for each port or place, respectively, and the name, description, and build of such ship or vessel, and the true admeasurement or tonnage thereof; the port or place to which such vessel belongs, with the name or names of each owner, according to the register of the same, together with the name of the master or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel; and a just and particular account of all the goods, wares, and merchandise so laden or taken on board, whether in packages or stowed loose, of any kind or nature whatsoever, together with the marks and numbers, as marked on each package, and the number or quality and description of the packages, in words at length, whether leaguer, pipe, butt, puncheon, hogshead, barrel, keg, case, pack, truss, chest, bale, box, bandbox, bundle, parcel, cask, or package of any kind or sort, describing the same by its usual name or denomination, together with the name or names of the person or persons to whom the same are respectively consigned, agreeably to the bills of lading signed for the same, unless when the said goods are consigned to order, when it shall be so expressed in the said manifest or manifests, together with the name or names of the several passengers on board the said ship or vessel, distinguishing whether cabin or steerage passengers, or both, with their baggage, specifying the number and description of packages belonging to each, respectively; in what cabin or other place stored or kept, and the number of passengers in each cabin or other place in the ship or vessel, together with an account of the remaining sea-stores, if any. And the form of the manifest for goods, wares, and merchandise, or other articles imported, shall be as follows, to wit: Report and manifest of the cargo laden on board of the (here insert the denomination and name of the vessel,) whereof (insert the master's name) is master, which cargo was taken on board at (here insert the port or ports, place or places, at which the cargo was laden,) burden tons, built at in the State of -, merchants, at (inserting the tonnage, where built, by whom owned, and place or places of residence, as particularly detailed in the certificate of registry,) as per register granted at (here insert the port or place,) the (here insert the day of the month and year when granted.) and bound for (here insert the name of the port or place where bound to.)

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Returned cargo, (if any articles of the outward cargo are brought back, they are to be detailed, specifying by whom shipped outward,

and to whom consigned inward.) Return of passengers and of packages belonging to them, respectively, (here insert the names of passengers, and whether cabin or steerage passengers, or in what other place accommodated, and how many in each, with the description and number of packages containing their baggage, or the tools or implements of trade,) vessel and cabin stores. (Here detail what are remaining.)

And if goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be imported, destined to be delivered in different districts or ports, the quantities and packages destined to be so delivered shall be inserted in successive order in the manifest as aforesaid, distinguishing the ports to which the same may be destined, and the quantities and packages for each.

SEC. 9. If any goods, wares, merchandise, or other articles, shall be imported or brought into the United States in any ship or vessel whatever, from any foreign port or place, without having a manifest or manifests on board, agreeably to the directions in the foregoing section, or which shall not be included or described therein, or shall not agree therewith, or if any article mentioned in the manifest be not found on board, in every such case the master or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel shall forfeit and pay a sum of money equal to the value of such goods, wares, merchandise, or other articles not included in such manifest or manifests, or not found on board, as the case may be; and all such goods, wares, merchandise, or other articles not included in the manifest, belonging or consigned to the master, mate, officers, or crew, of such ship or vessel, shall be forfeited; but if it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the collector, naval officer, and surveyor, or to a major part of them where those officers are established at any port, or to the satisfaction of the collector alone, where either of the said officers are not established, or to the satisfaction of the court in which a trial shall be had concerning such forfeiture, that no part of the cargo of such ship or vessel had been unshipped after it was taken on board, except such as shall have been particularly specifiel and accounted for in the report of the master or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, and that the manifests had been lost or mislaid, without fraud or collusion, or that the same was or were defaced by accident, or incorrect by mistake, in every such case the forfeiture aforesaid shall not be incurred.

SEC. 10. It shall be lawful for all collectors, naval officers, surveyors, inspectors, and the officers of the revenue cutters, or either of them, to go on board of ships or vessels in any port of the United States, or within four leagues of the coast thereof, if bound to the United States, whether in or out of their respective districts, for the purpose of demanding the manifests aforesaid, and of examining and searching the said ships or vessels; and the said officers, respectively, shall have free access to the cabin, and every other part of the ship or vessel; and if any box, trunk, chest, cask, or other package shall be found in the cabin, steerage, or forecastle of such ship or vessel, or in any other place separate from the residue of the cargo, it shall be the duty of the said officer to take a particular account of every such box, trunk, chest, cask, or other package, and of the marks and numbers

thereof, if any there be, and a description thereof, and, if he shall judge proper, to put a seal or seals on every such box, trunk, chest, cask, or other package; and such an account and description shall be by him forwarded, without delay, to the collector of the district to which such ship or vessel is bound. And if upon her arrival at her port of entry the boxes, trunks, chests, casks, or other packages so described, or any of them, shall be missing, or if the seals put thereon be broken, the master of such ship or vessel shall forfeit and pay for every such box, trunk, chest, cask, or other package so missing, or of which the seals shall be broken, the sum of two hundred dollars. And it shall also be lawful for the inspectors who may be put on board of any such ship or vessel (and it shall be their duty) to secure after sunset in each evening, or previously to their quitting the ship or vessel, the hatches, and all other communications with the hold of such ship or vessel, or any part thereof he or they may judge necessary, with locks or other proper fastenings, which locks or other fastenings shall not be opened, broken, or removed until the morning following, or after the rising of the sun, and in the presence of an inspector or inspectors, except by special license from the collector of the port and naval officer thereof, if any, for that purpose first had and obtained. And if the said locks and other fastenings, or any of them, shall be broken or removed during the night, or before the said rising of the sun, or without the presence of an inspector or inspectors, or other officers in charge, or without such license first had and obtained, or if any goods or packages shall be clandestinely landed, notice thereof shall immediately be given by the inspector or inspectors to the collector, surveyor, or other officers in charge of the district, port, or place where the vessel may be; and the master or other person having the charge or command of any such ship or vessel shall, for each of the offences aforesaid, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars.

SEC. 11. Every master or other person having the charge or command of any ship or vessel laden with goods as aforesaid, and bound to any port or place in the United States, shall, on his arrival within four leagues of the coast thereof, or within any of the bays, harbors, ports, rivers, creeks, or inlets thereof, upon demand produce the manifest or manifests, in writing, which such master or other person is required as aforesaid to have on board his said ship or vessel, to such officer or officers of the customs as shall first come on board his said ship or vessel, for his or their inspection, and shall deliver to such officer or officers a true copy or copies thereof, (which copy or copies shall be provided and subscribed by the said master or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel,) and the officer or officers to whom the original manifest or manifests shall have been so produced, shall respectively certify upon the back thereof that the same was or were produced, and the day and year on which the same was or were so produced, and that such copy or copies as aforesaid was or were to him or them delivered, and by them examined with the original manifest: and shall likewise certify upon the back of such copy or copies the day and year on which the same was or were delivered; and shall forthwith transmit such copy or copies to

the respective collectors of the several districts to which the goods by such manifest or manifests shall appear respectively to be consigned or destined; and that the said master or other person so having the charge or command of any such ship or vessel, shall in like manner produce to the officer or officers af the customs who shall first come on board such ship or vessel, upon her arrival within the limits of any district of the United States in which the cargo or any part thereof is intended to be discharged or landed, for his or their inspection, such manifest or manifests as aforesaid; and shall also deliver to him or them a true copy or copies thereof, (such copy or copies also to be provided and subscribed by the said master or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel,) the production of which said manifest or manifests, and the delivery of which said copy or copies thereof shall also be certified by the said officer or officers of the customs who shall so first come on board the said ship or vessel on her arrival within the limits of any such district, upon the back of the said original manifest or manifests, with the particular day and year when such manifest or manifests was or were produced to such officer or officers, and when he or they so received the said copy or copies thereof, and such officer or officers is and are hereby required fo thwith to transmit, or cause to be transmitted, the said copy or copies of the said manifest or manifests to the collector of such 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 so certified to the said collector; and when any manifest shall be produced, upon which there shall be no certificate from any officer of the customs as before mentioned, the master or commander producing the same shall be required to make oath or affirmation that no officer has applied for, and that no endorsement has been made on, any manifest of the cargo of such vessel. But nothing herein contained shall be construed 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; and the form of the certificate aforesaid, to be endorsed on an original manifest, shall be a follows, to wit: I (A B) certify that the within manifest was this day produced to me as the original manifest of the cargo on board the (insert the denomination and name of the vessel,) whereof (insert the name) is master, from (insert the port last from.) In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name this day of

And the form of the certificate aforesaid to be endorsed on the copy of a manifest shall be as follows, to wit: I (A B) certify that I have examined the within manifest produced to me this day as a copy of

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