The Empire County argus., 1854-10-21
Public, No. pol
AN ACT to authorize the issue of registers to vessels
owned by the "AccessorY Transit CompanY."

AN ACT to authorize the issue of registers to vessels
owned by the accessory Transit Company"
Be Senate and House Of Representatives
T the United States T 4merea IN Compress assembled,
That the Secretary of The Treasury be- and he is hereby
authorized TO registers to be issued in the of
the president of The Accessory Transit Company" in
corporaled under charter from the State of Nicaragua
for The STEAMBOATS, vessels owned by said company and
empo, ed in the transportation of merchandise and pas
sengers between the Atlantic and Pacific ports Of the
aforesaid Prooied That before the granting of regis
to be employed aforesaid, the president of said
pany to be employed aforesaid, the president of said
company shall swear or affirm that the said steamboat
vessel owned by said company that all the offices and
least twothrds of the citizens of the United
States persons not the subjects of any foreign prince
or Siae that all the officers and directors of said COM
pany citizens of the United States and that twohrds
of the st ck of said company owned by citizens of the
United States; which oath affirmation shall be deemed
sufficient, without requiring the oath affirmation of
other person interested or concerned in said steamboat or
vessel And pr00tded faither That register issued
der this act shall continue in force year and longer
unless the president of the company aforesaid SHALL
within year from the date of the register make
the oath or affirmation aforesaid and the collector of the
customs shall certify the date of sad-renewed oath or af
rmation aforesaid and the collector of the customs shag
certify the date of saidrenewed oath affirmation the
back of said register which shah continue in force for
year from said date and the other affirmation may
be renewed and the endorsement made in each
and every year thereafter and the register shall continue
in force accordingly
Sec 2. 1nd be ii further enacted That before granting
register to any steamboat vessel owned by the COM
pany aforesaid the president thereof SHALL together with
sureies 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
vessel shall be solely employed in the transportation
OF merchandise and passengers between the Atlantic and
Pacific ports of the United States aforesaid that the
register shall be solely used for said steamboat vessel
that it shall not be Sold lent, otherwise disposed of
any other company person OF persons; and that in
such steamboat vessel shall be sold lost otherwise
prevented from returning the United States the said
register SHALL within six months thereafter If preserved
be returned 10 The collector of the who issued it
The treasury for cancellation; and failure
ply with any OF The dors uioresaj" forfeiture shall
the United States of the eni penal named
in said bond to be enforced in any competent Jurisdiction
and the outstanding register shall be null and void
Sec. Aud be ii further endcted. That whenever the
officer whom said register had been issued shall
be the president of said company register which
may have been issued in his name shall be void, and
register must be issued in compliance with the pro-
visions of this act.
SEC. d. Anu be II further enacted That before issuing
any register as aforesaid shall be proved to the saisac-
ton of The Secretary of the Treasury that the steamboat
vessel for which the register is shall 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 same manner as YES
sells built wholly and registered by American citizens
Approved ~ June 1854