American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-03-28
by aUTHORITY.--

BE enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives Of
tie United States Of faerca Congress- assembled hat roRa
and after the third day of March rext no goods,
wares or merchandise, subject to ad valorem duty,
and imported into the United States, shall be adj
mitted to an entry, unless the true invoice of the
same be presented TO the collector at the time OF
ENTRY, or unless the same De admitted in the mode
authorized and prescribed in the next ensuing Sec
ton OF his acG Procided, That this prohibition
shall not extend to such goods wares, nerchan-
disc, as shall have been taken from wreck.
SEC. Q. And be it further enacted, That when no
invoice has been received OF any goods wares, or
merchandise, imported and subject to ad valorem
lduty aforesaid, the owner, importer, consgneeo
Tor agent, shall make oath of the same, and the
Collector of the Port shall be, and he is hereby,
authorized, If, in his judgment, the circumstances
under which such goods, wares or merchandise,
shall have been imported, any other crCums lance
connected Herewith render it expedient to admit
the same to an entry. on an apprasement thereof,
duly made in the manner hereinafter prescribed:
Pr0cded, The owner, importer, consignee or agent,
of such goods, wares, or merchandise, shall pre-
vous to such entry, give bond, with sufficient
suretes to the United States, to produce to such
collector the invoice ofthe within eigh. months
from the time of entry, if the same were imported
from any port place on this side, and within
Ieighteen months if from any port or place beyond
the Cape Of Good Hope or Cape Horn, or from the
Cape of Good Hope, and to pay any amount Of
duty, to which it may appear, by such invoice, the
said goods, wares, or merchandise, we're subject,
over and above the amount Of duties estimated on
the said appraisement.
| SEC. s. find be ii further enacted, That when
goods wares, merchandise, imported into the
United States, shall not have been entered in pur-
suance of the provisions of this or any other act,
Regulating imports and tonnage, the same shall be
deposited according to existing laws, in the public
L. Al a.
and risk of the owner, until such invoice be pro-
duced Provided, hoacerer, That, when the said
goods, wares, or merchandise, shall have manned
in the public ware house nine months, ifimported
| from any port or place on this side. and eighteen
months, il from any port or place beyond the Cape
OF Good Hope or Cape Horn, from the Cape of
Good Hope, and no invoice shall be produced then
the said goods wares. and merchandise, shall be
Appraised and the duties estimated theI eon in the
manner hereinafter directed: Pr0rided also That
nothing herein contained, shall be understood TO
prohbit the sale oil such quantities of goods, stored
as aforesaid as may be necessary TO discharge the
duties thereon, and all intervening charges at the
time time, when such duties shall become due
and payable: find provided further, That the Col
ector be- and he is hereby, authorized to direct
earlier sale of articles of perishable nature. and
of such may be liable to waste; first giving such
notice of the sale, circumstances may admit, by
fIpublic advertisement, in one more papers at
nearest to the port where such sale may be had;
which said articles the Collector shall previously
cause to be appraised, and the duties estimated
thereon, in the manner hereinafter directed; and
the proceeds of such sale shall be disposed OF at the
respiration of the said periods Of nine and eighteen
months, respectively, as the may be- in the
manner prescribed by the Fifty sixth section OF he
act regulating the collection OF duties on imports
e and tonnage, passed the second day OF March, one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine: Pr0Udp0,
also, That nothing in this section shall be construed
to affect the cases contemplated by the Fifty sixth
section Of the act regulating the collection oil duties
: imports and tonnage passed the second oil March,
one thousand seven hundred and ninetynine.
: SEC. A. find be it further Enacted, That, in all
cases where goods, wares, or merchandise, shalt
have been imported into the United States and shall
be entered by invoice, one of the following oaths,
according to the nature othe case, shall be admnis-
f tered by the collector Of the port at the time OF
entry, to the owner, importer, consignee, agent,
in lieu of the oath prescribed by law in such
, case:
2 Consignee, Importer, or AGENTS Oath.
Il do soemnly and truly (swear, or affirm }
that the invoice and bill OF Iadng presented by
,, me to the collector OF +, are the true and only
invoice and bill Of ading by received, OF all the
). goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in The
hi whereof Is master, from for
Z account oil any person whomsoeveF, Tor whom ann
1autHorzed 10 enter the same that the SAID invoice
and bill of aeng are in the state il which they were
actually received by me, and that do not know
Of believe in the existence of any other invoice, or
bill OF lading Of the said goods and merchan
disc; that the entry delivered to the collector
contains Just and true account OF the said goods,
IS wares, and merchandise according 10 the said in.
voice and bill OF ading; that nothing has been. on
my part, nor, 10 my knowledge, on the part of any
other person, concealed or suppressed, whereby the
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duty lawfully due on the SAID goods, wares, and
mere andse and that il, al any time hereafter.