Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-03-07

. be iawful to pnt on board any such
vessel any specie or goods, wares o,
merchaniizc, unless permit shall
have been previously obtained from
the proper collector, or from a revenue
officer, authorised by the collector to
grant such permits !; nor unless the
owner, consignee, agent or factor
! shall with the master, give bond
with one or more sureties, to the u
nited States, in sum double the
value OF the vessel and cargo, that Che vcssei
shall not proceed to any foreign port or place
and that the cargo shall be re isidel in some
port of the United States p royiled, That it
shall be legfil and su.hcicnt in the case of al
nv such vessel, whose employment has bee
uniformly claiined to rivers, bays a,l sounds
within the juris ic,ion Of the Unitcd States, to
give bond IN an amount equal to one hundred
and htty dollars, for each ton OF said vessel
with condition thit such vessel shall not du
ring the time limited in the condition OF the
bond, proceed to any foreign port or place, or
put any article on board of any other vessel
or be em.>ioyed in any foreign trade.
Sec. Is. And be it further enacted, That f
any ship or vessel shall, during the continu
ance of so mach of the act. laying an embargo
on ali ships and vessels IN the p,cts and har-
bors us tlc United States, aud OF the several
acts supplementary thereto. as is not repealed
by this act, depart from any port of the Unit
ell Stises without a clearance or permit or
havilr given bond in the manner provided b.
law, such ship or vessel, together wish her
cargo, shal. be wholly forfeited and the own
er or owners, agent, freighter or factors, mas
ter or commander OF such ship or vessel shall
moreover several,y forfeit and pay a sum equal
to tn, value of che ship vessel, and of the
Cargo pat on board the same
Sec. IL. And be it further enacted, That
the act to prohibit the importation of certain
goods, wares and merchandise, passed the
eighteenth April, one thousand eight hundred
and SIX, and the act supplementary thereto, be
and the same is hereby repealed, from and af-
ter the said twentieth day of Nav, next Pro-
vided, That all penalties and f,rfeitures which
shall have been previously incurred byvirtue of
the said acts, shall be recovered and distribute
ed IN like manner as IT the said acts had con-
tinucd in full force and virtue.
: Sec ID And be it further enacted, That al
penalties 4 iorfeitures arising un Ter, or incur-l
red by virtue of this act, may be sued for.
prosecuted and recovered, with costs of suit,
by action OF debt, in the name of the United
States of America, or by indictment or infor-
nation. III any court having competent juris
diction to try the same aud shall be distribu.
ted and accounted for, in the manner pres
cribsd by the act. entitled 50 An act to regu.
late the collection of duties on imposts and tom
age" passed the second day of March one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine and
such penalties and forfetures may be examin
ed, mitigated or RENTED, in like manner and
under the like conditions, regulation, and re =
strictons, are prescribed, authorised and
directed by the act, entitled An act 10 pro-
vide for mtigatingo RENTING the forfeitures,
penalties and disabilities, accruing in certain
cases therein mentioned,' passed the third day
of March, one thousand seven hundred and
ninety seven, and made perpetual by an act
passed ,he eleventh day of February, one thou
sand eight hundred
Sec. -. And be it further enacted, That
this act shall continue and be in force until the
end of the next session of Congress and no
l,nger and ihar the act laying an embargo on
all slips and vessels in the ports and harbors
OF the United States and the several acts sun.
Elementary thereto, shall be, and the same are
hereby repealed from and after the end of the
next session of Congress
]. B. VARNUM,
Speaker of he House of Representative,
JN. MiLLEDGE, President
of the Senate, pro-tempore.
March 1, 1909.
APPROVED,
TIL: JEFFERSON.
- We sincerely regret that we cannot
insert in this days paper, the eloquent and
argumentative circular letter of William
A Burwell, Esq. 1t shall appear, if posi-.
BILE, in the next Argus.