Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-01-21

This Joint resolution receivedits frs.
reading, and lies on the table.
On motion Of Mr.. Hernandez, it
was
Resolved, That the committee on the Judi.
ciary be directed to inquire into the expedieney
of altering and amending an act, entitled an
act for asce,,aining claims and titles to lands
| within the territory of Florida, passed the 9th
day Of May, 1912.
On motion of Mr.. Hernandez it was
| also
| Resoired, That the committee on Com.
mcrce be instructed toinquIe into the expedi.
ency Of erecting alight house at the entrance
I of the port of Pensacola, in the territory Of
Florida.
The Speaker communicated to the
House a letter from the Secretary Of
the Treasury, transmitting list Of tue
Games of the several persons employ
ed as clerks in the several offices of the
Treasury Department, in the year
1929, with the compensation Of each
which were ordered to liz on the table.
Tue engrossed bill, entitled, ian act
in addition to an act fer, the more
prompt settlement OF he public &C.
counts, and for The Puniihment of the
crime of perjury" was read third
time, passed. and sent to the Senate for
concurrence.
COLLECTION OF IMPosTs.
On motion Of Air. BIC Laue. the
House proceeded. in committee of lts
whole, Mr. Williams, 0. n. c in the
chair, to consider the bill supplement.
tary to, and to amend an act, entitled
AN act to regulate the collection Of
the duties on imports and tonnage.
passed he Cd ct March, 1899, and to
repeal An act supplementary thereto,
passed Goth April, 1915, anu Ter other
purposes.
This bill is very long Sec. provides that
from and after the I'd Marsh, no goods sutec.
to ad valorem duty shall he admitted to eutry
unless the true in, dice OF the same te present
! ed to the collector al the tine Q. entry, OF TN.
less the same be admitted in the mode author.
zed and p. Prescribed in the next ensuing section
oil this act.
Sec. l. Provides that when no invoice Of
such goods have been received, tie owner, &c.
shall make oath thereof, and the Secretary OF
the Treasury shall be Authorized to cause them
to be appraised owner to give bond 10
produce the invoice within eight months il
from European ports, and fifteen months, if
from beyond the Cape Of Coed Hope or Cape
Horn, or from the Cape Of Good Hope.
Sec. 5. Directs THAT, where goods are not
entered in pursuance OF this or any other reye
nue. act, the same shall be deposited in the pub.
lie warehouse. After remaining IN the ware
house for eight or fifteen months, as the case
may be, the said goods to be sold, &C. Eersh.
able articles to be exposed to earlier sale, ne.
cessary.
Sec. 4. Prescrlbes the oaths, in cases Of
goods entered by invoice, to be taken by the
owners, importers, copsignees, OF agents.
Sec. 5. Prescribes the manner in which the
ad valorem rates Of duty upon goods shall be
estimated, viz by adding to the actual costs
OF all charges, except commissions, OUTSIDE
packages and insurance, and also ~ per cent
on the said costs, &C. if imported from or be-
yond the Capes.
Sec. 6. Provides that no goods subject to al
valorem duty, belonging to residents, but not
at the pl ace uhere the same are intended to &c
entered. shall be admitted to entry, unless
bond be given to produce to the Collector With
in four months, the invoice, duly vef'ned oy
the owners oath.
Sec.7. Provides tAat no goods imported and
belonping to non Presidents, shall be admitted
to entry unless the invoice be verified by the
oath of the owner to his ownership and to the
actual cost OF the goods
! The bill contains in all Mirty-seren sections
ofminu,e detail, of which tho preceding synoP'
sis of seven ofthem may give an ioea. Fhea'
praisers are to continue to be appointed as now
provided by law, The occasional appraisers
are to be allowed five dollars per day, and 70
be fined fifty for each refusal to act. thru
disinterested person may lie called in to JOIN
the appraisers where first apprascment shail
not be satisfactory, &c. &s,
On motion Of Mr. Gorham, the Dill
was amended SO as to extend the une
allowed for voyages beyond the Cape Of
Good Hope or Cape Horn, or from 'he
Cape of Good Hope, from .tttse"
months, as it stood in the bill, to s'g@'
teen months.
Several other amendments were
made to the details Of the bill, on mo'ioh
Of Mr.. McLane.
Two memorials were presented
from New York and Salem, Msss.-'a'
vorab.e to the passage Of the bill.
The most important amendment pro.
posed, seemed to be that proposed oy
Mr.. Ipgham, to substitute the earre"S
palue at the ports whence shipped Tor
the cost or actual vGlxe as the OASIS
on which to estimate the duties on
goods paying ad vaIorem duties.
This amendment, however, IN 'I'
end was negatived. a..