Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-05-17


c,s, nry where The same may have been
originally manufactured al produced.
Sec. IA. ind be it further enacted,
Thai, IN all cases where ne appraised
value OF n!y goods, wares, or meschan-
disc, appraised under this or any other
ac' concerning imports and tonnage,
Shall exceed, by less than twenty five
per centum, the invoice value thereof,
such appraised value shall be consider
ed the true value of such goods, wares, or
merchandise, upon which the duty shall
be charged, with the addition OF such
per centum as may be by law required:
PROVIDED, That, in no case, shallthe value
be estimated on an amount less than the
IN loice value, with the addition by law
require d.
Sec. l5.And be il further enacted,
That the col ,ectsrs OF the revenue srall
caose al least one pack Sc out o. every
invoice, and one package, a, least, OUT
ofeyery twenty packages OF each invoice
oil goods, wares, or merchandise, imports
ed into their respective districts, which
package or packages he shall have first
designated on the invoice, 10 be opened
and examined, and if the same be found
no 10 correspond with the invoice there
of, or 10 be falsely charged in such in
voice, full inspection OF | such goods,
wares, or merchandise, as may be in
GUIDED 10 the same entry, shall be made;
AVID in Case such goods, wares, or mer-
cnandse, be sub ect to ad valorem duty,
the same shall be appraised, and subject
cd TO the peuatles provided in the thir-'
eenth section, in case of suspected or
fraudulent invoices; and in every case,
whether such goods, wares, or merchants
disc, be subject to ad vaiorem Or speci-
nc duty, II any package may be found 10
contain any article not described in the
invoice, the whole shall be forfeited:
Provided, That the Secretary of tho
Treasury be, and he is hereby author
izcd 10 remit the SAID forfeiture, If, in
bis opinion, the said article was put in
by mistake, or without ally intention to
deirauu the revenue.
SEC. l6. IND be il further enacted,
That, tor the appraisement OF goods,
wares, or merchandise, required by this
or any other act concerning imports and
tonnage, The Presidedt OF the United
States shall, by and wlih the advice aud
consen, OF the Senate, appolat, IN each
OF The ports oil Boston, New York, Pail
adelphla, Baltimore, Charleston, Savan.
nah, and New Orleans, two persons,
well qualified to perform thai duty, VINO,
before they enter thereon, Shall several
ly make oath, diligently and faithfully to
examine aud inspect such goods, wares,
or merchandise, as the collector may di-
rect, end truly to report, to the best Of
their knowledge and belief, the true value
thereof, according to the provisions of.
the fifth section OF this act; and when
port, other than those above named, the
collector shall appoint two respectable
resident merchants, who, after having
taken the oath required by this section,
Shall be the appraisers !; and the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury snail have aulhsri-
~ to direct the appraisers for any collec-
Ton district, TO attend IN any other coll
lection district for the purpose of APP
praislng any gaods, wares, OF Nero ham
disc, imported therein; and the Prosi-
dent OF the United States is hereby au-
tnorized, in the recess OF the Senate, to
appoint the appraisers for the ports pro-
yided for in this section, which appoint
ments shall continue in force until the
end of the session Of Congress lhereaf-
Ter.
Sec. II. ind be it further enacted,
That each OF the appraisers, who may
be appointed under the sixteenth section
Of this act for the ports OF New Orleans,
Savannah, Charleston, Baltimore, Phila-
delphia, and Boston, shall each receive,
as compensation for his services, fif-
leen hundred dollars per annum; md
the appraisers for The port OF New York
Shall each receive two thousand dollars
per annum; and the merchants who NAV
be appointed to act as appraisers under
this act, shall receive for their services,
while actually employed on that duty,
each, compensation of five dollars per
dien,; and whenever the appraisers,
appointed under the sixteenth section of
this act, attend in any district, other
than that in which they reside, for the
purpose of appraising any goods, wares,
or merchandise, they shall respectively
receive at the rate of five dollars for every
twenty-five miles in going to, or rcturn-
ing from such district, IN addition to the
salary or nav Drnvifled for in fb;p coo.