The Empire County argus., 1854-09-02

to be employed as aforesaid the president of said com
pany, to be employed aforesaid the president of said
company shall affirm that the said steamboat or
vessel is owned by said company that all the offices and
least twothirds of the citizens of the United
States persons not the subjects of any foreign prince
or Sate that all the officers and directors OF said com
panv are citizens of the United States and that wothrds
of the stuck of said company owned by czens OF the
United States which oath or affirmation shall be deemed
sufficient without requiring the oath or affirmation OF any
other person interested or concerned IN SAID steamboat or
vessel And prouided ther That register issued un-
der this act shall continue in force one year and no longer
unless the president of the company aforesaid Shall,
within one from the date of the register make anew
the oath affirmation aforesaid and the collector OF the
customs shall certify the date OF saidrenewed oath or al
rmaton aforesaid and the collector of the customs shall
certify the date of sadrenewed oath or affirmation on the
back of said register which shall continue in force for
year from said date and the other or affirmation may
be renewed and the endorsement so made once in each
and every year thereafter and the register shall continue
in force accordingly.
SEC @ and be further enacted That before granting
register any steamboat vessel owned by the COM
pany aforesaid the president thereof SHALL together with
one or more surees to the satisfaction OF the collector OF
the customs by whom under the direction OF the Secre
tary of the Treasury the register may be issued become
bound to the United States in the sum OF twenty-five
thousand dollars with condition that the steamboat or
vessel shall be solely employed in the transportation
of merchandise and passengers between the Atlantic and
Pacific ports of the United States as aforesaid that the
register shall be solely used for said steamboat vessel
that it shall not be sod lent otherwise disposed OF to
any other company person and that In case
such steamboat vessel shall be sod lost or otherwise
prevented from returning TO the United States the said
register SHALL within six months thereafter If preserved
be returned to the collector of the customs who issued
to the treasury for cancellations and on failure to com
ply with any of the conditions aforesaid forfeiture shall
accrue the United States of the entire penal sum named
in said bond to be enforced in any competent jurisdiction
and the outstanding register shall be null and void
SEC 8 Aud be 1t Tarther enacted. That whenever the
officer whom said register had been issued shall cease
to be the president of said company any register which
may have been issued in his name shall be void, and
new register be issued in compliance with the pro-
visions of this act
SEC 4. and be it f0tAer enacted That before issuing
any register aforesaid it shall be proved to the satisac
ton of the Secretary of the Treasury that the steamboat
vessel for which the register is to issue snail have been
built and equipped wholly in the United States; and said
steamboats, and vessels shall in all respects be subject to
the laws of the United States in the as
sells built wholly and registered by American citizens.
Approved 29 June, 1854.