and for other purposes," are hereby repealed. But nothing in this act contained shall 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shall have accrued prior to the day this act shall go into effect, under and by virtue of any of the laws by this act repealed, for which purpose the said laws shall continue in force.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. 25. This act shall go into effect and be in force on and after the day of -, one thousand eight hundred and fifty

A BILL concerning navigation, and for obtaining statements of foreign commerce. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, as follows:

SECTION 1. No goods, wares, or merchandise shall be imported into the United States from any foreign port or place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such foreign vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of that country of which the goods are the growth, production, or manufacture, or from which such goods can only be, or most usually are, first shipped for transportation; but this regulation shall not extend to the vessels of any foreign nation which has not interdicted the indirect trade in vessels of the United States with such foreign nation.

SEC. 2. All goods, wares, or merchandise imported into the United States contrary to the true intent and meaning of the preceding section, and the ship or vessel wherein the same shall be imported, together with her cargo, tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States.

SEC. 3. No goods, wares, or merchandise shall be imported, under penalty of the forfeiture thereof and of the vessel conveying the same, from one port of the United States to another port of the United States, in a vessel belonging wholly or in part to a subject of any foreign power; but this clause shall not be construed to prohibit the sailing of any foreign vessel from one to another port of the United States; but no goods, wares, or merchandise, other than those imported in such vessel from some foreign port, and which shall have not been unladen, and goods taken on board to make up her cargo destined for a foreign port, shall be carried from one port to another in the United States.

SEC. 4. It shall be lawful for the master or commandant of any steam vessel, or other ship or vessel of the United States engaged in the foreign or coasting trade, (or fisheries,) to ship the crew from the mariners of the port where the steamship or other vessel may be, or of any other port or place, but the master, commandant, and all the other officers of such steamship or other vessel shall be citizens of the United States; and if any such steamship or other vessel shall at any time have on board one or more of her officers not a citizen or citizens

of the United States, the said vessel shall be liable to pay to the United States a tonnage duty of fifty cents per ton on every entry, for the benefit of sick and disabled seamen; unless when by mortality, desertion, or any other cause, such officer or officers cannot be obtained at the foreign port, and the same shall be duly certified by the American consul; and should any such vessel be found a third time with any officer not a citizen of the United States, except as aforesaid, such vessel shall be liable to seizure and forfeiture.

SEC. 5. There shall be levied, collected, and paid, on all ships or vessels which shall be entered in the United States, not entitled by treaty, or by any act or acts of Congress, to be exempt from discriminating duties on their tonnage and cargoes, a duty of one dollar per ton; and if any foreign vessel shall arrive in the United States from any foreign port or place to and with which vessels of the United States are not ordinarily permitted to enter and trade, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on such foreign vessels, a duty of two dollars per ton.

SEC. 6. The Register of the Treasury shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, annually prepare statistical accounts of the commerce of the United States with foreign countries for each preceding fiscal year; which accounts shall be laid before Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury on the first Monday in December in every year, or as soon after as possible, and shall comprehend and

state:

1st. All goods, wares, and merchandise exported from the United States to other countries; all goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States from other countries; and all navigation employed in the foreign trade of the United States; which facts shall be stated according to the principles and in the manner hereby directed. 2d. The kinds, quantities, and values of all articles exported, and the kinds, quantities, and values of all articles imported, shall be distinctly stated in such accounts, except in cases in which it may appear to the Secretary of the Treasury that separate statements of the species, quantities, or values of any particular articles would swell the annual statements without utility; and in such cases the kinds and total values of such articles shall be stated together, or in such classes as the Secretary of the Treasury may think fit.

3d. The exports shall be so stated as to show the exports to each foreign country, and their values; and the imports shall be so stated as to show the imports from each foreign country, and their values.

4th. The exports shall be so stated as to show, separately, the exports of articles of the production or manufacture of the United States, and their values, and the exports of articles of the production or manufacture of foreign countries, and their values.

5th. The navigation employed in the foreign trade of the United States shall be stated in such manner as to show the amount of the tonnage of all vessels departing from the United States for foreign countries, and, separately, the amount of such tonnage of vessels of the United States, and the amount of such tonnage of foreign vessels, and also the foreign nations to which such foreign tonnage belongs, and the amount of such tonnage belonging to each foreign nation;

and in such manner as also to show the amount of the tonnage of all vessels departing for every particular foreign country with which the United States have any considerable commerce; and, separately, the amount of such tonnage of vessels of the United States, and the amount of such tonnage of foreign vessels; and in such manner as to show the amount of the tonnage of all vessels arriving in the United States from foreign countries; and, separately, the amount of such tonnage of vessels of the United States, and the amount of such tonnage of foreign vessels, and also the foreign nations to which such foreign tonnage belongs, and the amount of such tonnage belonging to each foreign nation; and in such manner as also to show the amount of the tonnage of all vessels arriving from every particular foreign country with which the United States have any considerable commerce; and, separately, the amount of such tonnage of vessels of the United States, and the amount of such tonnage of foreign vessels.

6th. The kinds and quantities of all imported articles free from duty shall be ascertained by entry, made upon oath or affirmation by the owner, or by the consignee or agent of the importer, or by actual examination, where the collector shall think such examination necessary; and the values of all such articles shall be ascertained in the same manner in which the values of imports subject to duties ad valorem are ascertained.

7th. The values of all imported articles subject to specific duties shall be ascertained in the manner in which the values of imports subject to duties ad valorem are ascertained.

8th. The collectors shall keep separate accounts of the kinds, quantities, and values of such parts of the imports subject to duties ad valorem as may be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and all articles exported shall be valued at their actual cost, or the values which they may truly bear at the time of exportation in the ports of the United States from which they are exported; and all articles imported shall be valued at their actual cost, or the values which they may truly bear in the foreign ports from which they are exported for importation into the United States at the time of such exportation.

SEC. 7. Before a clearance shall be granted for any vessel bound to a foreign place, the owners, shippers, or consignors of the cargo on board of such vessel shall deliver to the collector manifests of the cargo, or the parts thereof shipped by them, respectively, and shall verify the same by oath or affirmation; and such manifests shall specify the kinds and quantities of the articles shipped by them, respectively, and the value of the total quantity of each kind of articles; and such oath or affirmation shall state that such manifest contains a full, just, and true account of all articles laden on board of such vessels by the owners, shippers, or consignors, respectively, and that the values of such articles are truly stated, according to their actual cost, or the values which they truly bear at the port and time of exportation; and before a clearance shall be granted for any such vessel, the master of every such vessel, and the owners, shippers, and consignors of the cargo shall state, upon oath or affirmation, to the collector, the foreign place or country in which such cargo is truly intended to be landed; and the said oaths or affirmations shall be taken and sub

scribed in writing; but when the owner, shipper, or consignor of any goods, wares, and merchandise shall fail to produce the manifest, on oath, before referred to, such owner, shipper, or consignor shall forfeit and pay three hundred dollars, and the collector shall estimate the value and grant the clearance.

SEC. 8. Every collector shall keep an accurate account of the national characters and tonnage of all vessels which depart from his district for foreign countries, and of the foreign places or countries for which such vessels depart; and also an accurate account of the national characters and tonnage of all vessels which enter his district from foreign countries, and of the foreign places or countries from which such vessels arrive; and shall make returns quarterly to the Register of the Treasury, or oftener if required by the Secretary of the Treasury, of all the facts and matters which they are hereby required to ascertain; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall give such directions to the collectors, and prescribe such rules and forms, not inconsistent with law, to be observed by them, as may appear to him proper for attaining the objects aforesaid.

SEC. 9. The forms of the annual statements hereby required shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall prescribe such forms as may be proper to exhibit the facts hereby required to be stated, in the clearest manner, and to show the actual state of commerce and navigation between the United States and foreign countries in each year.

SEC. 10. The act approved first March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, entitled "An act concerning the navigation of the United States," together with the act approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, entitled "An act to provide for obtaining accurate statements of the foreign commerce of the United States," 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. 11. This act shall go into effect, and be in force, on and in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred

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A BILL regulating seizures, suits on duty bonds, and prosecution for the recovery of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, their distribution and remission.

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

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the several collectors, naval officers, surveyors, inspectors, and other officers of the customs, and they shall have full power and authority to make seizure of and secure any ship, vessel, or other vehicle, goods, wares, and merchandise which shall be liable to seizure by virtue of this or any other law of the United States H. Ex. Doc. 50-9

respecting the revenue which may be hereafter enacted, as well without as within their respective districts; and they shall have full power and authority to stop and examine any person or beast of burden, and stop, enter, search, and examine any ship, vessel, boat, raft, railroad car, sleigh, carriage, or vehicle of any kind whatsoever, in or on which they shall have probable cause to suspect are concealed or laden any goods, wares, or merchandise which have not been duly entered, and which, if dutiable, the duties thereon have not been paid or secured according to law, and the payment of which is intended to be evaded, or which have been imported into the United States in any manner contrary to law; and if they shall find any goods, wares, or merchandise in any such ship, vessel, boat, raft, railroad car, carriage, sleigh, or vehicle, or on any person or beast of burden, which they shall have probable cause to believe have not been duly entered, or which, if dutiable, the duties thereon have not been paid or secured according to law, and the payment of which is intended to be evaded, or which have been imported into the United States in any manner contrary to law, they shall seize and secure the same for trial; and all such goods, wares, and merchandise which have not been duly entered, or on which, if dutiable, the duties have not been paid or secured according to law, and the payment of which is intended to be evaded, or which have been imported into the United States in any manner contrary to law, shall be forfeited. And if any of the said officers of the customs shall have probable reasons to suspect that there are concealed in any particular dwelling house, store, or other building, any goods, wares, or merchandise which have not been duly entered, or on which, if dutiable, the duties have not been paid or secured according to law, and the payment of them is intended to be evaded, or which have been imported into the United States in any manner contrary to law, he shall, upon proper application, on oath, to any judge or justice of the peace, be entitled to a warrant directed to such officer, who is hereby authorized to serve the same, to enter such house, store, or other building, in the day time only, and there examine and search for such goods, wares, or merchandise; and if, on such search or examination, any such goods, wares, or merchandise shall be found which there shall be probable cause for the officer making such search or examination to believe have not been duly entered, or on which, if dutiable, the duties have not been paid or secured according to law, and the payment of which is intended to be evaded, or which have been imported into the United States in any manner contrary to law, he shall seize and secure the same for trial; and all such goods, wares, and merchandise which have not been duly entered, or on which, if dutiable, the duties have not been paid or secured according to law, and the payment of which is intended to be evaded, or which have been imported into the United States in any manner contrary to law, shall be forfeited. But the necessity of a search warrant shall in no case be considered as applicable to any carriage, wagon, cart, sleigh, vessel, boat, or other vehicle, of whatever form or construction, employed as a medium of transportation, or to packages on any animal or animals, person or persons.

SEC. 2. Any collector, naval officer, surveyor, or inspector, when