Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-01-09

" fCSoCI SAdiI3 CUHtTdFy 10 Tie pfUFISlOHS "
this act, or of the act to which this act is sup
lement, proceed to q foreign port orp1ace, OF
trade with or put on board any other ship OF
] vessel, any goods, wares, or merchandise, Of
foreign or domestic growth or manufacture
such ship or vessel and cargo shall be wholly
forfeited, and if the same shall nat be seized
the owner or owners, agent, treig liter or fact
ors OF such ship or vessel shall Tor every such
offence, forfeit and pay a sum equal to double
the value of the ship or vessel and cargo, and
shall never hereafter besallowed credit for
duties on any goods, wares, er merchandise,
imported by hin or them into any of the ports
OF the United States, and the master OF com.
nander of such snip OIL. vessel, as we'll as all
otherpersons who shall knowingly be concern
ed in such prohibited foreign voyage, shall
each respectively forfeit andpay sum not
exceeding twenty thousand, nor less than one
thousand dollars for every such offence, whe.
Their the vessel be seized and condemned or
not, and the oath or affirmation OF such mas
ter or commander Shall ever thereafter be In.
admissible before any collector Of the customs
of the u. S $, :
Sec. 8. .4nd be 1t further. enacted, That the
supplement, in favor of armed vessels pos
sessing public commissions from foreign pow
..ers, shall apply only to public armed vessels,
and shall not be construed to embrace either
privateers, vessels having letters of marque,
or any other private armed vessels, but such
private armed vessels shall be permitted to
depart in the same manner and on the same
conditions as is provided for other private To-
reign ships or vessels.
Sec. q. IND be- it further enacted, That if
any foreign ship or vessel shall, during the
continuance Of the act to which this act is
supplement, take on. board any specie OR any
goods, wares or merchandise, other than the
provisions and sea-stores necessary for the
voyage such ship or Vessel AID tie specie and
cargo on board SHALL be wholly forfeited, and
may be seized and condemned by any court
of the United States having competent lulis-
diction, and every and each person concerned
in such unlawful ipment, Shall forfeit and
pay sum net exceeding twenty thousand dol
lars nor less than one thousand dollars, for
very such offence.
Sec. Ind be it further enacted, / nat all pen
allies and forfeitures incurred by force Of this
ANNC'SANN. NASehAcNtSSN
and accounted for in the manner prescribed by
the act, entitled " An act to regulate the col
lection of duties on impost and tonnage" pass
ed the second day of March, one thousand
seven hundred and ninety nine, and may be
mitigatea or RENTED in the manner prescrib-
ed by the act, entitled 81 An act to provide
for mitigating or renting tie forfeitures, pc
80 & disabilities accruing IL certain cases
therein mentioned, f'us,o~s----- - "a A----
one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven
and made perpetual by an act passed the ele-
yenth of Feb'ry one thousand eight hundred'
Sec. 6. .di,d be IL fnrthee enacted, That the
time during which the act, to which this act S.
a supplement-, shaltcontinue in force shall
not be computed as making part of the termot
twelve calendar months; during which goods,
wares, or merchandise imported into the is
must be re-exported in orderto be entitled to
a drawback O. the duties paid on the importa-
ton thereof.
Prom the Boston Gazette.