Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-08
remain public store for the period now allowed by law


stores cellars aforesaid owned occupied by private
individuals shall be used warehouse for merchandise
imported by other merchants importers, the owner,
occupant lessee thereof shall enter into bond in such
sums and with such sureies may be approved by the
Secretary of the Treasury generating and holding the
United States and its officers harmless from account
of any risk oss expense of any kind description
connected with arising from the deposte keeping OF
the merchandise in the warehouse aforesaid and oil i'm,
ports deposited in any public private warehouse au-
horized by this act shall be at the sole and exclusive
risk and expense of the owner or importer
Sec. And be further enacted, That all goods wares,
and merchandise which may be hereafter duly entered
for warehousng under bond, and likewise all merchan
disc new remaining in warehouse under bond may con-
nue in warehouse without payment Of duties thereup
on period of three years from the date Of the org
nal importation, and may be withdrawn for consumption
due entry and payment Of the duties and charges or
upon entry for exportaon without the payment OF du
ties any time within the period aforesaid in the lat
ter the goods to be subject only to the payment OF
such storage and charges may be due thereon: ora
ed hoger, That where the duties shall have been paid
upon any goods wares merchandise entered Tor con-
sumption said duties shall not be refunded on exporta-
ton of any such goods, wares, merchandise without
the limits of the United States: And provided, further,
That there shall be abatement of the duties or allow
made for any injury damage deterioration loss or
leakage sustained by any goods wares or merchandise
whilst deposited in any public private bonded ware
house established or recognised by this act.
Sec 8. Rnd be further enacted, That any goods wares,
merchandise, duly entered for warehousing may be
Withdrawn under bond without payment of the duties
from bonded warehouse in any collection district Of the
United States and be transported to bonded warehouse
in any other collection district within the same, and
warehoused thereat and such goods wares or mer
chandse may be transported to their destination Who'll
y by land wholly by water or partly By land and part
ly by water such routes the Secretary or the
Treasury may prescribe and may likewise be conveyed
over any foreign territory the Government of which may
have, shall by treaty spulaons grant, free right Of
way such errtory and for the purpose of better
guarding against frauds upon the foreign goods
transported between the ports of the Atlantic and those
Of the Pacific overland through any foreign territory the
Secretary of the Treasury be and is hereby authorized to
appoint special agents inspectors of the customs
to reside in said foreign territory where such goods
be landed embarked, with the power to superintend
the landing or shipping Of all goods passing coastwise be-
tween the ports of the United States the Pacific and
Atlantic and whose duty it shall be- under such regula
tions and instructions the Secretary of the Treasury
may prescribe to guard against the pepetration of any
frauds upon the Prouded That the compensa-
on paid to said inspectors shall not in the aggregate
ceed five thousand dollars per annum
Sec 6. And be further enacted That the Secretary of
the Treasury shall prescribe the form of the bond to be
given for the transportation Of goods, wares and
chandise from port in collection district to port
in another collection district in the United States pro-
vded in the preceding section also the time for such
delivery and for failure to transport and deliver with
in the time limited any such bonded goods, wares and
merchandise to the collector the designated port
additional duty of hundred per cent shall be levied
and collected which additional duty shall be secured by
such bond, said goods wares and merchandise may
be seized and forfeited for such failure and any
other vessel vehicle transporting such bonded goods
wares and merchandise the master, owner, conduc
tor of which shall fail to deliver the to the collector
a the designated port shall be liable to seizure and for
feiture.
Sec I. And be it further enacted That all leases of
stores held by the United States for the purpose of
storing warehoused or unclaimed goods shall, on the
shortest period of termination naed in said leases be
cancelled, and leases shall be entered into by the
United States for any stores for the storage of warehous
ed unclaimed goods at any port where there may exist
any private bonded warehouses after the first day of
July, eighteen hundred and fifty five Prouded That
nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent
the leasing hiring of such buildings accommodations
may be required for the Of the United States ap
prasers for the due examination and appraisal Of import
ed merchandise at the ports where such officers pro-
yded by law, to prohibit the leasing hiring by
collectors Of the customs for short periods with approval
Of the Secretary of the Treasury Of such stores may
required for purposes ut any o the smaller
ports Of the United States Providd, That
collector other officer of the shall into
any contract for the Of any building to be
thereafter erected public store warehouse, and
no lease of building to be go used shall be taken for
longer period than three years. shall rent be paid
in whole or in part in any case, in advance.
Sec 8. And be further enacted, That the Secretary Of
the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized upon pro-
duction Of satisfactory proof to him of the actual injury
destruction in whole in part of any goods wares
merchandise accidental fire other casualty while
the remained in tho custody of the officers of the
customs in any public private warehouse under bond
in the appraisers stores undergoing appraisal in pur
OF law regulations OF the treasury Department
while in transportation under bond from the port of
entry any other port in the United States to abste
refund IS the case may be- out of any moneys in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated the amount Of i'm
post duties paid accrung hercupon and likewise to
cancel any warehouse bond bonds enter satisfaction
thereon in whole or in part as the case may be.
Sec 8. And be further enacted That the Secretary Of
the Treasury be and is hereby authorized from time to
time to establish such rules and regulations incon
sisen with the laws of the United States for the due
execution Of this act, he may deem to be expedien
and necessary and oil acts and parts of conflicting
with this act hereby repealed. #.,.
Approved March %, 1854.
REsoLUTIoN-No. 5.
JOINT RESOLUTION accepting certain volumes and
medals presented by her Britannia Majestys Govern
ment to the United States.
Resoved BY the Senate and House Of Representatives. the
United States Of america Congress assembled That the
Government of the United States accept the presentation
volumes and medals illustrative Of the Exhibition in Lon
don in eighteen hundred and presented by her
Britannia Majestys Government in behalf her Maesys
Commissioners for the said Exhibition and that they be
placed in the Library Of Congress
Resolved That copy Of this resolution be communi
Gated to the British Government In such the
President Of the United States may see proper.
Approved, March q, 1864.
REsoLuTIoN-No. 6.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Secretary Of the
the site pan and mode Of constructing the lighthouse
Cohasset rocks, and for other purposes
Resolped by the Senate and House Of Representatives Of
the United States OF Aeried Congress assembled That the
Secretary of the Treasury and Lighthouse Board be and
hereby authorized to determine upon the ste plan