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AM/UW:4AV • ACT,
lATINT; AN EVRARW ON ALL MOM AND Vasszts IN

THE PORTS AND IJARROURS OrrUR UNITED STA't&S.
Ve it enacted* the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of Arntrica, in Congress assembled, That dur-
ing the continuance of the list lading do embargo on all the ships
and vessels in the ports and harbours of the United States, no ves-
sel of any description whatever, and wherever boOnd, Wiht7SC em-
ployment is confined to this navigation of hays, sounds, rivers, and
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iakki within the jurisdiction of the United States, (pockets, ferry-
bbats, and valets exempted from tke obligation of giving any bond
whatever, only excepted) shall he allowed to depart from any dis-
trict of the United Icates, without,previonsly having obtained a
clearance, nor until the master or commander shall have delivered

to the collector or surveyor of the port of departure, a manifest of
the whole cargo on heard, including articles of domestic growth or
manufacture, as well as foreign merchandise. And it shall also
be the duty of the (netters, agents, or masters of every such vessel
to produce, within two months thereafter, to the collector of the
district from which the ',visa departed, a certificate of the landing
of the whole of such cargo in a port of the United States, within
thtbay, sound, rivers or lakes, to which the navigation of such
vessel is confined, siyried by she collector or surveyor of the port
where the cargo shall have beta landed.
Sec. U. And be it further enacted, That during the continu-
ance of the Act laying an emburgo on all the ships and yes. els in
the vets and harbours .of tkeArnited States, and of the several
acts supplementary thereto, do -ship or vessel of any description
whatever, other than those described in the next preceding sec-
tion, and wherry% r bound, shall receive a clearance, unless the lad-
inW be made hers after, under the inspection of the proper re-
venue officers, subject to the sante restrictions, regulations,penal•
ties and forfeitures as are provided by law for the inspection of
kends, wares, and merchandise imparted Into the United States,
upon which duties are imposed, any law to the contrary. notwith-

standing ; Provided, "!'hat nothiniherein contained shill he con.
strued to affect the vesscli laden in whole in part on the re-

ceipt of this Act by the respective collectors.
sec. fit And be it further enacted,'llrat if any vessel described
in tl►c first section, shall depart from any district of the United
!hates without a clearance, or before the manifest of the cargo
shall have been delivered to 'the collector or surveyor, lu the
manner therein prohibited, or if a certificate of the landing oI the
cargo shall not be produced within the time and in the manncr
theecir provided, such vessel and cargo shall be forfeited, and the
owner or owners, consignee, agent, factors, freighters, master or
shipper of such vessel, shall respectively forfeit and pay a suns not
eaceesiing eve thousand dollars, nor less thas; one thousand : Pro-
vided always, Tina nothing herein contained shall be construed
to bar or prevent the recovery of the penalty on the bond given
fair such vessel.

Sec. IV. And he it further enacted, That during the continu-
ance of the Act laying an embargo on all the ships and vessels in
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the ports and he_rbours of the United States, and of th several
Acts supplementary thereto, it shall be the duty of the taster or
person having the command of any vessel, flat or boat, tend( d
to enter that part of the river Mississipi, which lies belbeen the
southern boundary of the Mississipi territory and the river iber-
eine, If going down the said river, to stop at Fort Adams, and if
going up the river, to stop at iberville, and at each place, as the
taw may be, to deliver to an inspector of the revenue, to be sta-
tioned for that purpose, a manifest of the whs,!... cargo on board,
and also to produce to the same officer, within two months there-
after, if going down the river, and within six months thereafter,
-ageing tip *he river, a certificate of the landing of the 1141.11 e in
same part of the district of Mississippi, and within the jurisdiction
At the Milted States ; which certificate shall be signed by the col-
lector, or one of the surveyors of the district of Mississipi, or, if
the cargo shall be landed mow than thirty miles from the place of
residence of any such officer, by a state or a territorial judge,
basing jnrisdiction at the place of such landing.
Sec. V. .Andiss it further enacted, That if any vessel, flit, or
heat, shall enter that part of the River Mississippi. as prescribed
in the next preceding section, without stopping and delivering a
outfitted in the manner therein provided, or ifa certificate of the
landing of the cargo shall not be produced within the time aid
in the manner therein provided, such vessel, flat, or boat, and
cargo, shall be forfeited, and the owner, or owners, consignee,
agent, factors freighters, master, or skipper, of such vessel, flat
or boat, shall respectively forfeit and pay a stun not exceeding
ire thousand dollars, nor less than one thousand dollars.
Sec. VI. And be it further enacted, That no ship or vessel,
laving any cargo whatever on board, than, during tht contints-
anee of the act laying an embargo on all ships and vesaels in the I
ports and bathours of the United States, Ise allowed to depart
from any poet of the United States to any other port or
district of the United Staters ait,,acent to the territories, colo-
nies, or prostate,* of a foreign nation ; nor shall any clearance
be tarnished to any ship or vessel bound at aforesaid, without
special permission of the President of the United States. And if
any ship br vessel shall, contrary to the provisions of this act, pro-
seed to any port or district adjacent to the.territories, cokmie4, or
rovineesof a foreign nation, each ship or vessel, with her cargo,
ffiallite wholly forfeited ; and if the same shall not be seized, the
Owner, meows, agents,faetors and freighters, of sock ship or ves •
a I, shall for every such draw, forfeit and pay double the value
of ma ship and cargo, and the master and commander of such
ship or yew!, as well as AI other persons, whin shall knowingly
he concerned in such prohibited voyage, shalt each respectively
forfeit aad pay a SUM net excite:Eng three thousand dollars, nor
km than five hundred dollars, for every such olfenee, whether
tits vessel be seised or not. . _

Sec. Vi. And be it further enacted, that the commanders of
pub& armed vessels and gun boat. of the United States shall, as
well as the wenotanders or masters of the eciennesutters and
revenue boats, be authorised, and they an hereby authprised to
stop and examine any vessel, flat qr boat, belonging to any
al the United States, either on the high seas, or within the jnris-,
metion of the United States, which them maybe mason to suspect
engaged in any traffic or commerce, or in the transportation
merchandize of either domestic or foreign growth or manufac-
Aare, contrary to the provision of this act, or of the act laying an
embargo en all sleeps and vessels in the parts and harbours of the
United States, or of any of the acts supplementary thereto, and
' upon rstinination It shall appear that stick vessel, flat, or boat,
'um emerged, It shall be the duty of the commander to seize
• such vessel, fiat, or boat, and to send the same to the nearest
of the United-flutes for trial-
-Sec. VIIL And be it further enacted, That the Comptroller of
Treasury be, and be hereby is authorised to remit the duties
accruing on the importation of goods of domestic produce, or which
s foreien produce, had been exported without receiving a
yback, which may have bees or may be re-imported hi votes
,cued by citizens of the United States, and which having sailed
massecpsent to the first day of October last, and prior to lie WA of
otecember last, may be or have been stopt on the High Seas by
eign arnied vessels, and by reasnn thereof have returned, or
ty hereafter return into the Pitted States And the said Comp-
agkr is likewise authorised to direct the exportation bonds given
foreign mercbandize reported with privilege of ilgawback, in
vessel, and ee-ezported i.n the same, In the manner afore-1
, to be cancelled, the duties on seek re-importation being
writs* paid, and on such other conditions and restrictions as
coy he necessary for the security of the revenue.
Soc. IX And be it ftertherenacret‘That during the continuance
act laying an entbargo On all ships and vessels In the ports and
.arbours of the United States, tie foreign ship or vessel shall go
from mete port in the Oohed States to another; and should any
forage ship or vessel, contrary to this swims. go from one port
:he United States to another, the vessel with her cargo, shall
wholly forfeited, and the owner, or owners, agent, factors,
freighters, and master at such ship or vessel, aball forfeit and pay
a stun not exceeding three thomand dollar* Par less than one
thowand dollars.
5v4. cod be it further enacted, Thal es *easel, fiat, or boat
eontpreheaded in thb act, shafiLbe obliged to toy mere than 90
eats (Or each dearallet.
Sec. XL And be it (nether eeseted, That she collectors of the
yams be, aid they are hereby respectively authorised to detain
r veserl ostensible boond with * cargo to ogee other port of the
iited States, whenever in their oginioni the imenthin is to vie-
, or evade say of the provisions of the acts laying an mathaego,
.iii the decision of the President of the United States be bad
"hereupon.
Sec.XIL And be it further enacted, That It any unusual deposits
provisions, titivate, or other amides of domestic growth at nm-
tufuetare, shall have been,or shalt be motels any of the ports ot
-.tithed States adjseeet to the territories, colonies, er provinces
foreign nation, the collector ottlie district shall be, and he
',lrby is authorised to take the same in his estmodg, end not to
permitusel Amick to be rernoved,oelli bond, with audleient sure-
ties, shall have been given for the lending ea delivery ,Erie smut
some pore or place of del:Nitta Mates.

,ba. ][adieu ThWt air slipi.,pr vessel,
owned by a eirlaten-ortiebusw of the Unites States, traded or In
part loaded with the produce of.the' United States, before the act
laying an endways ,Was passed, and by adduct detained in any
pert of tie United State, ray be permitted to phweed to an y
other port of the United States,' sod there to remain with such'
cargo 00 boat* subject to such otherrestrictioni and bonds as are
prescribed in the net laying an unsbamo, sad the several supple-
meat-err arts thereto.
'• Sec. XIV, And be if further enatted, That at ♦ -tallies and
forfeitures incurred by force of this act may be tokigated and
remitted in the manner prescribed br the act entitled, •4 An'aet
to provide for mitigating andreinitting the forfeitures, penalties,
and disabilities accruing in certain casestherein theendoned, and
all penalties and forfeitures Which May be reorwetusl in pursnante
of tlugaet, in consequence of any seizure made by the costntam
der OTany public armed vessel of the United Stars, shall he dis-
tributed according to the rules prescribed by de act entitled
-a-
-" An sat for the Government of the Navy of the United States)"
and all othi r p nu' a:5 and forfeitures atking under this Ice; shaft
be distributed in the manner prescribed by the act entitled, s An
act to regulate tl e collection of duties otrimporta. and tonnage:*
stet. XV. And be it further et:sett:4 Thai nothing in the act
laying an embargo on all ships and vessels In the ports ant' ;mit:ruts
of the United States, or in the several acts supplementary thereto,
'or in the act to prohibit the intportutfon of certain goods, wares
and merchantlize, Shall be construed to prevent the exportatios:
by land, or inland navigation, from the territories of the Uni-
ted Stites into those of Great Britain, of furs and peltries the pto-
perty of subjects of Grat Britain, and by them purchased from
the Indians; or to prevent the importation by Lind, or inland navi-
gation, from the territories of Great Britain into th.ase of the Uni-
ted States, of merchandtse the property of British srbjects, and
by them imported solely for the use of the Indians aforemtd.
J. B. VARNUM,
Sp, House Representatives.
S. SMITH,
Presdt. of the Se•tate pro tem.
(Approved) IEiTERSON.

April 22, 1608.

FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
Commissions signed by the Vice-Lieutenant of the
East Riding of the County of York, and Town
and County of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull.
ileverloy Volunteer Infantry.
Wm. Tayleure, Esq. to be Captain ; Robert Leighton, Gent. to
be I.ieutenant. Dated lane 20, 1808.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Surrey.—First Surrey Militia.
Lewis Wibnter, Esq. to be Captain, (by Brevet). Dated June 21,
1801.
Wm. hlackL n, Esq. to be Captain, Dated June 22, 1808.
Joseph Dawson, Esq to be ditto. Dated lane V. 3, 1808.
Second Ditto.

Richard Robert Jones, (sert. to be. Ensign.. Dated May '!4,1805.
John Buchanan, Gent. to be ditto. Dated Jane 24,184/8.
Princess Charlotte of Wales', Loyal Southwark Vo-.
• lunteers.
Nathaniel Jekyll, Esq. to be Adjutant. Dated Aprll2, 1809.
Sarnuti Darling, Esq. to be Captain, vice Sins, resigned. Dated
June 21, 1808.
Richard Corner, Gent. to be First Lieutenant, vice Darling, Pro'
tnoteii. Dated June -22, 1808.
Henry Aston Barker, Gent. to be ditto, vice Frederick Walski
superseded; Joint Diszon Powlt a, Gent. to be Second I.latite-
neat, vice.Georga Jackson, resigned. 13,.th dated as sl,ove.
Ctubberwell Volunteer Infantry.
George Sharp, Gent• to be Ensign. Dated hnr 15, 1809.
Carlshalton Volunteer Infantry:
Edward Wallace, Gent• to be Ensign. Dated May 17, 1208.
Cornmiscions in the Ist liattalion Royal Lit litligow-
shire Volunteer Infantry, signed by the Lord Lieu-
tenant.
Lanes Taylor Oent. to be Second Lieutenant, vice Brown re-
signed. Dated. June 8, 19.)8.
Archibald Stewart, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated June 9, 1808.
John Lawder, Gent. to be ditto. Dated June 10, 1808...

%VlHim Salattind, Lett. to be ditto. Dated June II; 1808.
John Grieve, Gent. to be ditto. Dated June 13,1808.

John Caspian, Gent. to be Quarter-Master, vicellrown resigiltd.
Dated June to, I M.
Commission in the Royal Montgomeryshire Regi-
ment of Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant.
Hugh Mortis Jones, (lent. to be Enslgg' Dated July I, 180.
BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. •
August O. Lewis Lazarus, of Brown's Buildings, London, slop-
seller, dialer and chapman, at ten, at Guiclhall.•
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

Louis Frebout, juuiur, of Fort-street, Loudon, silk-manufacturer.
BANKRUPTS.

Thomas Francis, Goodman Francis, and Thomas Francis the
younger, an of Cambridge, merchants and copartners, to sur-
render July 22, at six, July 23, at ten, and Aug. 20, at eleven, at ;
the Blaclxßun, Cambridge. Attornits, Mr. Wood, Cambridge,
or Mr. Harvey Goodwin, King's Lytm, Norfolk. i
Robert Gray, now or late of Portsra, Hants, builder and carpets-1
ter, August 4, at one, August 5, at eleven, and August 20, at I
the Crown Tavern, Quern-street,Pottsea. Attornies. Messrs.
Naylor, Great New-street, Long Acre, London ; or Mr. Glen-
timing, Portsca.
Tbernat ABday Kerrison, of Norwich, banker, July 20, 26, and
August 20, at ten, at the King's Heal, Norwich. Attornies,
Mr. Wm. Simpson, Norwich ; or Messrs. Winans, Sun, and
Holtaway, Chancery-lace, London. •
Francis Frankland, of Bow-lane, Cbeapside, 'London, warehouse-
man, July Is, 23, at twelve, nd August 20, at one, at Guild-
hall. Attetruee, Mr. Lee,Three Cmwn-c ,urt, Southwark.
Evan Davies, of Cloth Fair, West Stnithd .Id, London, woollen-
draper, dealer and chapman, July ist. at ten, July 26, at twelve,'
and August 20, at tell, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. John Pul-
len, Fore-street, Cripplegate.
Benjamin Best, of Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate-street, Loudon,
merchant-tailor, dealer and chapman, July in, 22, and August
20, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Wile'.;, jun. Castle-
street, Falcon-square. .
William Ortsiu; late of Vauxhall, Surrey, but now of Kinpland-
Road, Mielllesex, dealer and chief man, July in, at twelve, July
23, at one, and August 20, at two, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr.
' Hayden, Great Trinity-lane.
George Parker, of Chenies-street, Oxford-mid, Middlesex, lid-
,' tish wine-maker, dealer and charnan, July 16, 2:1, at twelve,
and August 20, at we, at Guildhall Attorney, Mr. I)ruce,
BiLliter-square, Fenchurch-street, London.
Henry Henry, of Liverpool, tailor, draper, dealer and chapman,
July 23, 26, and August 20, at one, at the .illobe Tavern, John-
starer, Liverpool. Anomie' Mr. Windle, John-street, Beds.
ford-row, London ; or Mr. Edward Griffith, Lotter Castle-
street, Liverpool.
John Phillips, of Printer's-street, Blackfriar's, London,and of No.
292,Strand, Middlesex, dealer in glass and earthen ware, July
12,st eleven, July 23, and August 20, at ten, at GoildlalL- •
Attorney, Mr. Henson, Dorsetextreet, Salishury-square.
Richard Swallow, of Attercliffc.Forge, Sheffield, Iron master,.
dealer and clsapmsn, July 21, 29, at three, md August 20, at
' eleven. Anemias, Messrs. Sykes and )(mulles, Solicitore, New ,
Inn, London, or Mr. Charles Brookfield, Solicitor Sheffield.
George King, of King's-place, Stone's-end, Ne vingtoa, Sorrel,
builder. dealer and ehapinan, July 16, 23, ixt 1 August t/.0, at
1 twelve, at Guildhall. Attoruies, Messrs. Maddock and Steven-
son,
Lincoln*. Inn, London.
Thomas Doy'e, of *Flereadneedle-street, 1.0 Iclus, mariner,mer-
giant, dealer at d chapsuan, „July 16. it 6, and August 20, at
twelve, at Guildhall. Attorney, Nir. Dawes, Angel-court, Titres-
nvaton-street, London.
William Parsons Meeker, of Pasinghall-street. London, mer-
chant, July 16, 23, and August 20, at ten, at GoikUsalL Attor-
, I sty, Mr. Walton, Gitdlere-ball, Batinghall-street.

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