Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-06-15
By AUTHORITY.
Acts and Resolutions passed a the Second
session Of tIls Fhiftieth Congress.

lTpuRIIc-- Al IAN Act requiring allmo-
news receivable from customs and from all
other sources to be paid Immediately into
the treasury without abatement or Teduc-
4 ton, and for other purposes.
Be tt enacted By the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the United States OF Anseg-
tca an Congress assembled, That from and af-s
ter the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred
and forty mine. the gross amount of all duties
received from customs, from the sales of pub
lie lands, and from all miscellaneous sources,
for the use of the United States, shall be paid
by the officer or agent receiving the same INTO
the treasury of the United States at as early
day as practicable, without any abatement or
deduction on account of salary, fees, costs,
charges, expenses, or claim of any description
whatever: Proeaded, That nothing herein
contained shall be construed to alter the ex-
listing laws regulating the collection of the
revenues of the Post Office Department.
SEC. g. Aad be 1t further enacted, That so
much money as may be necessary for the pay
ment of debentures or drawbacks, bountles
and allowances, which are or may be author
lied and payable after the day aforesaid, he
and the same are hereby appropriated for that
purpose out of any money In the treasury, TO
be expended under the direction of the Secre-
taIy OF that department, according to the laws
authorizing said debentures or drawbacks,
bounties and allowances Provided, That the
collectors of the customs shall he the disbur
sing agents to pay the aforesaid debentures,
draw backs, bounties, and allowances and
that all debenture certificates issued according
, to law shall be received in payment of duties
at the custom house where the same has been
issued, the laws regulating draw backs having
been complied with.
SEC 3. ind be 1t further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the Secretary OF the Urea
sury to submit 10 Congress, at the commence
ment Of the next regular session, estimates of
appropriations which may be required to pro-
vide for the expenses of collecting the reven-
ne from customs, and also from the public
lands, for the second half of the next fiscal
year, and separate estimates for the said pur-
pose for the year ending the thirteth June.
eighteen hundred and fifty, and similar esti-
! mates from year to year thereafter
SEC. 4 And be at further enacted, That so
/, much money as may be necessary 10 pay the
q expenses of collections referred to in the next
preceding section, including the first half oil
the next fiscal year, and until specific appro-
! priations for the objects shall be made by
: Congress, be and the same are hereby appro-
o prlate1, out of any money in the treasury, to
be expended after the thirtieth June, eighteen
Z hundred and forty-nine, under the direction OF
the Secretary thereof. eonformably to law and
: regulation: Provided, That the expenses OF
collecting the revenue from customs shall not
thereafter exceed the sum of one million five
e hundred and sixty thousand dollars per an
mum, together with such sums as under the
j. law are paid into the treasury for drayage
# carriage, labor, and storage, and in proportion
e for a less time.
SEC. 5. And be 1t further enacted, Tha
flom and after the thrtieth day of June mex
all imports subject to duty, and wherein the
duties are not paid when assessed, shall BIZ
deposited in the public warehouse, from
whence they may be taken out for immediate
D. expectation under the provisions of that act
g at any time within two years, and on pay
ment of the duties may be Withdrawn for con
sumption within the United States at any time
within one year; but no goods subject to du
ty shall be hereafter entered for drawback, OF
exhorted for drawback, after they are with
ID drawn from the custody of the officers of the
lie customs: Provided, hoageuer, That nothing
= herein contained is intended to modify tht
laws relating to export OF goods to Canada O
Chihuahua, if the goods when entered for ex
n port are Immediately taken out or the United
n States, nor is it intended hereby to modify thu
d laws in relation 10 picked fish or refined
u sugar.
IS Sec. 6. Aaad be 1t further enacted, Thattht
% Sol citor of the Treasury, under the direction
e of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall require
from all collectors, and surveyors acting a.
IS collectors, new bonds with sufficient suretes
) for such sum and in such form as shall bt
u prescribed by said Secretary. The said new
;, bonds to be taken before the day fixed for Thu
II act to take effect 1t shall be the duty of th
n n Secretary of the Treasury. at the commence
y ment of each session of Congress, 10 report t.
II each house statement or statements, present
5 ing the amount of money expended at eacf
custom house in the United States, during thu
+ fiscal year next preceding, and also the nun
n Der of persons employed, and the occupation
and salary of each person at each of the SAT-
e custom houses during the period aforesaid
:, ROB'T c. WINTHROP,
Il Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
6. M. DALLAS,
It Vice President of the United States, and
n President of the Senate
st Approved March 3, 1916.
', JAMES K. POLK.
0 [PUBLIC-No AZ. An Act to extend tn
y provisions OF all laws now in force relating
), to the carriage of passengers IN merchan
r vessels, and the regulation thereof
e Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House O.
Y, Representatives Of the United States Of Amer
0t ica IN Congress assembled, That all vessel
1t bound from any port in the United States t.
l. any port or place in the Pacific ocean, or Oh
'e It's tributaries, or from any such port or plac
l. to any port in the United States on the At
IS Iantc, or its tributaries, shall be subject IL
= the provisions of all the laws now in fore
Is relating to the carriage of passengers in mer-
y chant vessels, sailing to and from foreign
t. countries, and the regulation thereof; excep
Is the fourth section of the ''Act to provide fo