Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-17

service Of the United states, being an additional
amount required for the fiscal year ending june
| thrtieth. eighteen hundred and siHfy-ohe'
Approved, July IS, 1861.
IPURLIc.-So. 81
An ACT further to provide for tle collection OF
| duties on imports and for other purposes
Be it enacted 10y the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Con
rrcss assembled, That Whenever it shall, in the
Judgment of the President, by reason of unlawful
conbiutols of persons in opposition to the laws of
the United States become imprIcticable execute
the revenue laws and collect the duties imports
BY ordinary means, in the ordinary way, Mt any
port entry in any collection district he is author
lied t" such duties 10 bs collected at any port
Of delivery in said district until such obstruction
shall Cease; and in such case the surveyors at said
ports OF delivery shall De clothed With all the pow
and he subject to all the obligations Of collectors
ports Of entry and the Secretary Of the Treasury,
with the appreciation Of the President shall appoint
such number of wcigheTs, guugers, measures, in
-pectors appraisers and clerks may be necessary,
IN his Judgment for the faithful execution of t6c
laws said ports OF delivery, and shall fix
and establish the limits within which such ports Of
delivery constituted ports Of entry aforesaid;
and all the provisions of law regulating the issue OF
marine papers, t!,e cOasting trade the warehOEsiug
of imports and collection Of duties shall apply TO
the ports of entry 50 constituted In the same manner
as they do to ports Of entry established by the laws
now la force.
Sec 2. Aud be it further enacted, That it. from
the mentioned III the foregoing section, III the
judgment of the President. the revenue from duties
ON imports cHunot be chcCtualy collected any
Iort OF entry in any collection district in the Ori-
nary way and by the ordinary means, or by the
course provided i'll the foregoing sectiOn then. and
in that case, he may direct that tho Custom-housc
tor the district be established in any place
within said district, either land board any
vessel in said district at tho coast: and
in such the collector shall reside at such place
or shipboArd, the may be, and there de-
tain all vessels and cargoes arriving within APP
preaching said district, until the duties imposed by
law said vessels and their caVgnes Padin cash
Provided, that il the consncc Of the cargo
on board any vessel detained aforesaid, the
master of said vessel shall desire to enter mort of
nUfT ut ted
such distractions TO the execution of the laws
isl the master of such vessel may be permitted to
change the destination of the vessel and cargo in his
manifest; wheTeupOn the collector shall deliver him
written permit to proceed to the port so designated
Treasury shall, with the appreciation of the Pres-
dent, make proper regulations for the enforcement
shiPboaTd of sue, provisions of the laws reyuat-
ing the assessment and collection Of duties i'll his
Judgment may he necessary aud practicable.
Sec B. And be it further enacted, That it shall be
| unlawful to take any vessel or cargo detained as
aforesaid from the custody of the proper officers of
the customs, unless by process of court Of the
United States; and in Of any attempt otherwise
to take such vessel or cargo by any force combi-
nation Hssemblage OF persons too great to beovcr
by the officers of the customs it shall and may
DC lawful for the President, such person persons
lac shall have empowered for that purpose, to
pOy such part of the army navy MALTA of the
United States such force Of citizen volunteers
may be deemed necessary for the purpose of prevent
ing the removal of such vessel cargo and protect
ing the officers of the customs in retaining the custo
| dy thereof.
| Sec. 4. And he it further enacted That it, in the
Judgment the President, from the cause mentioned
in the first section of the duties upon imports
in any collection district cannot be ecctuay collect
ed by the ordinary means aud in the ordinary way.
i in the mode and manner provided in the foregoing
sections OF this act then and in that the Prcs
dent is hereby empowered to close the port ports
of entry i'll said district, and in such give notice
thereof by proclamation; and therouP"n all right 0
tmportatlon warehouslng, ana other privileges Incl
dent to ports OF entry shall and be discontin
ucd at such port so closed, until opened by order
the President on the cessation of such distractions
and it. while said ports closed. any shin or YES
sci from beyond the United States, having on board
any articles subject duties shall enter or ttcnni
to enter any such port, the same, together with ii.
tackle, apparel furniture, and cargo shall be forfeit
ell to the United States.
| Sec. ). And be il further enacted That Whenever
the President in pursunnCe of the provisions of tliL
second section of the act entitled IAN act to provide
for calling forth the malitn tn execute the laws d
til" Union, suppress instructions, and rcPei inva
sons and to repeal the act in force for that nur
pose, approved February IS, 1885, shall have called
forth the militia to suppress combinations against the
laws of the United Stntcs, and to the laws to b,
duly executed and the insurgents STALL have failed 1,
dispense by the tiMc directed by the President ant
WHEN said insurgents claim to act nnder tho author
ity Ofany State States and such claim is not dis
claimed or Tcpudiatc by the persons exercising III,
functions of government in such State States OF
in the part parts thereof in which said cCmbina
tons exists, such instruction suppressed by saiI
State or States, then and in such it may anf
shall be lawful for the President by proClaHaiOs II
declare that the inhabitants u" such State any Ecc
ton part thereof where such iHsurrcctuu exists
are in state Of instruction against tho Unitet
States; and thcrcnpon all commercial intercourse Il,
anu between the same and the citizens thereof aId
tho citizens Of the rest Of the United States sinai
| cease and be unlawful 81 long as such condition u
hostility shall continue; and all goods and cattIcz
wares and merchandise, coming from said State al
section into other parts of the United States and nj
proceeding to such State section, by or water
shall, together with the vessel or vehicle convey
ing the same, or conveying persons to or from
such State or section, bo forfeited to tho United
States: Provided, however, That tho President NAV
in his discretion. license and permit commercial in
tercOUrse with any such part of said State or section
tho inhabitants Of which declared in a state O
ihsurrScuo III shcn articles anu tor such time. ant
by such persons, rs he, in his discretion, may think
most conducive to the public interest; and such in
tcrcourse. far as by him licensed shall he conduct
cd and carried on only in pursuance of rules and reg
uatiuns prescribed 10y the Secretary of the Treasury
And the Secretary of the Treasury may appoint sucl
officers mt places where officers of the ara =,
now authorized by law as may be needed 10 carry
into effect such licenses, rules, and regulations an,
officers OF the customs and other officers shall receive
Tor services under this section and under said rule
and regulations, such fees and compensation as arr
now allowed for similar services under other prcvis
ions of law.
Sec g. And be it further enacted That from an,
alter hteen days after the issuing of the said Drncla
nation, as provided in the last foregoing section
this act, any ship vessel belonging in whole or IT
part to any citizen inhabitant Of said State ri
part of State whose inhabitants are 90 declared in
state of Instruction found sea- or in any mort o
tho rest of the United Statcs shall be forfeited 70 In
United States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted That in tlo oro
oution of the provisions of this act of the othe
laws of the United States providing for the coIlccto,
ofduties on imports and tonnage, it may and shall
he lawful for the President, in addition to the reve
nuo cutters in service to employ in aid thereof suci
other sutabevesseIs as may, in his Indignant be re
9nred.
Sec. s. And be it further enacted, That the for
lures and penalties incurred by virtue of this nc
lRay be mitiGated or RENTED, in pursuance of thu
authority vested in the Secretary the Treasury b,
the act entitled An act providing for mitigating o.
RENTING the oreitures penalties, and disabilities
Nccruing in certain cases therein mentioned" ,D
proved March third, seventeen hundred and ninety
seven, or in cases where special circumstances ma,
seem to require it, according to regulations to b
prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec 8. And DO it further enacted, That proceed
tngs on seizures for toretures under this act may
pursued in the courts OF the United StafeS IN I'M
district into which the property so seized NAV b.
taken and proceedings instituted; and such c6urt,
shall have and entertain as full iUrisdictIoD o a.