Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-05-03

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mercantile part of the community, will, we
hope, plead our excuse for occupying so
much of this days paper with it. Articles
omitted in consequence, will be attended
to in our next.
CIRCULAR
TO COLLECTORS, NAVAL OFFICERS AND SUR
vEyoRs.
Treasury Department,
CsmptrOller's Office, Apr'' IAN, 1918.
SIR,
Transmit, herewith, copies Of the fol-
lowing acts, passed at the last session OF
Congress, to which your particular atten-
ton is requested
/. An act, entitled An act providing adj
ditional penalties for false entries for
the benefit of drawback, or bounty on
expectation - approved the Goth Feb.
ruary, 1919.
2. An act, entitled "An act regulating
passenger ships and vessels )" appro-
we'd the Cd of March, 1919.
8. An act, entitled can act to regulate
the duties on certain witness" appro-
we'd the Sd March, 1919.
a. An act, entitled ''An act in addition
TO AN act concerning tonnage and dis
eliminating duties in certain cases"
approved the Sd March, 1919.
6. An act, entitled San act in addition
to, and alteration o. an act, entitled
AN act laying duty on imported salt,
granting bounty on picked fsh ex-
ported, and allowances to certain YES
sells employed in the 6sheries;" ap-
proved the Sd of March, 1919.
S. An act, entitled San act supplement
tary to the acts concerning the coasting
trade;'' approved the I'd Of March,
1919.
The provisions Of the first mentioned law
are 50 clear and explicit as to require no
calculation.
It's incumbent on the officers OF the Gus
toms, blythe second mentioned law, to OBJ
serve due vigilance to detect vessels in Ia
king from, or conveying to, the United
States, greater number OF passengers than
is prescribed by the law.
In case the number OF passengers ex-
ceeds the proportion OF two passengers Tor
every FIVE tons of, the vessel but not by
twenty passengers, the master and the
owner or owners thereof, will severally for
fell, and be liable only 10 the payment OF
one hundred and fifty dollars, for every pas
senser over and above the said proportion:
but in case the number exceeds that pro-
portion, by twenty passengers, besides the
fine OF one hundred and fifty dollars to
which the master and owner or owners, will,
in such event, be severa!fy liable for every
passenger beyond the number allowed by
law, the vessel will be- forfeited to the Uni
ted States, and is to be prosecuted and dis
tributed in the same manner in which the
forfeitures and penalties are recovered and
distributed under the provisions OF the act,
entitled IAN act to regulate the collection
OF duties on imports and tonnage"
The third mentioned act, which Is to 60
into operation from and after the 3Oth OF
June next, reduces the duty heretofore
payable on the non-enumerated wines when
imported in bottles or cases, from seventy
10 thirty cents per gallon and when i'm
ported otherwise than in bottles or cases,
from twenty live te6iteen cents per gallon.
Il also amends the fourth section of the
act of Goth Of April, 1878, supplementary
to the collection law of 1899, ST. far as 10
allow the transportation, coast-wise, Of
wines and distilled spirits, from the public
warehouses, IN one district, to those in ane-
taer district, under such regulations as the
Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe,
nisaout loss Of de6entare.
By the fourth mentioned act, the provi-
sions and limitations Of the act OF Goth OF
April, 1918, concerning tonnage and dis
eliminating duties, in certain cases, are TO
be extended to the vessels Of Prussia, OF
the city OF HaD,bargh, and Of the city OF
Bremen.
In circular letter from this department,
dated the 4,h August, 1918, predicated on
two proclamations of the President OF the
United States, which were issued in con.
formiiy with the provisions of the act OF Sd
March, 1915, you were instructed to dis