The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-06-30
OFFICIAL.


the and any officer or other person entitled to
or Interested in part or share OF any fine penalty,
forfeiture incurred under this or any other law Of the
United States DO examined as witness In any of
the proceedings for the recovery of such fine penalty or
forfeiture by either Of the parties thereto, and such ex
animation shall deprive such witness of his ar her
share interest in such fine, penalty forfeiture.
SEC 3. And BE- IL further enacted That in case any
store warehouse or other building shall be upon or near
the boundary line between the United States and any
foreign country and there is to believe that
BILE goods deposited have been placed therein or
carried through or into the without payment of du
es and In violation Of law aad the collector deputy col
lector, naval officer surveyor of customs shall make
oath before any magistrate competent administer the
that he has reason to believe and does believe that
such enence has been therein committed, such officer
shall have the right to search such building and the pre-
misses belonging thereo and if any such goods shall be
io lou therein, the same together with such build
cording to law, and the said building shall be
forthwith taken down or removed. And any per-
persons who shall have received or deposited In
such building carried through the same any goods
aforesaid shall have aided heren in violation of law,
shall upon due conviction before any court OF competent
urisdcton be punished by fine not exceeding ten thou
sand dollars by imprisonment not exceeding two yeas
or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SEC. 4. And be it. further enacted That the first Sec
ton of the act of April second eighteen hundred and
forty-four entitled San act directing the disposition OF
certain unclaimed goods wares merchandise seized for
being illegally imported into the United States" be so
amended that in place Of the word one wherever the
may be found in said section, the word ve shall
be inserted
Approved February 2S 1865.
An ACT making Appropriations for the Construction
Preservation, and Repairs of certain Fortfcatons and
other Works Of Defence for the Year ending the thr
Be enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives
Of the United States of America in Congress assembled
That the following be- and they hereby appro
priaed out Of any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated for the construction, preservation and
pairs of certain Notifications and other works Of defence
for the ending the thirtieh of June, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-six
For Fort Wayne, Detroit, Michigan, seventy-fve
thousand dollars.
For repairs Of Fort Niagara near. Youngstown, New
York, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For Fort Ontario, 0swego, New York. fifty thousand dol
lars.
For Fort Montgomery at outlet Of Lake Champlain,
New York, fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Knox, at narrows of Penobscot River, Maine,
seventy-fiye thousand dollars.
For Fort Popham Kennebec river Maine seventy-fve
thousand dollars.
For Fort Scanned, Portland, Maine, fifty thousand
dollars.
seventy-fys Thousand dollars. - -
For Fort Constitution, Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
twentys6ve thousand dollars
For Fort McClary, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, fifty
For Port Winthrop Boston, Massachusetts, ten thousand
For Fort Independence, Boston, Massachusetts, five
thousand doarsf 81 ~
For Fort Warren Boston, Massachusetts ten thousand
dollars. ani /, $3.50. .e-fti-
For seawal of Great Brewsters Island Boston harbor
Massachusetts twenty thousand dollars.
For repair Of seaails on Deer and on Lovels Islands
For permanent forts at New Bedford harbor Massach
sets, fifty Thousand dollars. tit
For Fort Adams Newport Rhode Island fifty thousand
dollars. df " ''tl
For Fort Hale New Haven Connecticut, fifty thousand
dollars. .1~
For fort at Wlets Point opposite Fort Schuyler New
| York, fifty thousand dollars,
For repairs at Fort Hamilton, New York, twenty-five
| thousand dollars,
For fort site of Fort Tompkins Staten Island, New
| York, fifty thousand dollars.
Fer fort at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, fifty thousand
dollars.
For repairs of Fort Miin near Philadelphia, twenty
FOR repairs Of Fort Washington, on Potomac River,
twenty-five thousand dollars.
For Fort Monroe Hampton Roads, Virginia, twenty-five
For Fort Ciinch, Florida, fifty thousand dollars
For Fort Taylor Key West Florida, two hundred thous
For Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Florida, hundred
For Ship Island coast of Mississippi fifty thous
For fort at Fort Point San Francisco Bay California
onn hundred and nifty thousand dollars.
Fort at Acaraz Island San Francisco Bay California,
| one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
For additional deenoes at San francisco, California,
For deieices Of Washington three hundred Thousand
For field works and field operations million dollars
For bridge trains and eqpage for armies In the field,
| three hundred thousand dollars.
For tool and siege trains for armies in the field five
| hundred thousand dollars.
For surveys for military deences for purchase OF cam
| paign maps, three hundred Thousand dollers.
For survey of Northern and Northwestern lakes noud
ing Lake Superior one hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars. ttF 2 1850
For engraving and printing charts of lake surveys f
| teen thousand dollars. ltt
For purchase and repairs of instruments twenty thou
| sand dollars.
For repairing equpping and enlargng Fort Porter at
Buffalo, fifty thousand dollars.
Approved, February Is 1865.
AN Act relating to tho Enrolment and License Of certain
l0-47lfI z & Vessels.
Be enacted by the Senate and Hoaee of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress- assembled
That whenever shall become necessary for the owner or
OF vessel of the United States navigating the
Western rivers and the waters the Northern North
eastern and Northwestern frontiers of the United
States otherwise than by sea- and being in district
other than that which such vessels shall belong to
procure her enrolment and license or license renewal
thereof the proceedings be had in the district
in which said vessel then shall be, now, or shall
then berequredby law application for such enrolment
and license renewal thereof the case may be in the
district to which such vessel may belong, excepting the
giving of bond and the enrolment and issuance Of licenses
and the officer before whom such proceedings shall be
had sha certify the to the collector of the district
to which such vessel may shall belong who shall there
upon the said owners giving bond required
in all such cases. duly enroll the said vessel and issue IL
cense in the same form as if the application had originally
been made In this Office; and either deliver the said Ii
to said owner forward it by mail to
the officer who certified to him the preliminary proceed
ngs and who SHALL in such case, deliver the said license
to the owner owners master of the vessel: Pro
red That this act shall not be construed in any
respect change existing laws excepting in far Il
enable such owners to enrolment license
newal thereof without returning their vessels to their
| home ports or districts.
Approved, February Is, 1865.
An ACT to amend an Act entitled An Act to regulate the
Admeasurement of Tonnage of Ships and Vessels of the
United States" approved May sixth, eighteen hundred
and sixtyfonr. 7t.
Be enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
the United States Of America in Congress assembled That
the act entitled An act to regulate the admeasurement
Of tonnage of ships and vessels e the United Staes
proved May SIXTH eighteen hundred and sxtyfour shall
be construed that part any ship vessel shall BIO
asmeasured registered for tonnage that is used for
cabins or staterooms and constructed entirely above the
| first Deck which is not a deck to the hull.
Il Approved, February %, 1865. lfl
AN Act concerning the Collection District of Salem and
Il Beverly, in Massachusetts,.
Re enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives
ghe United States of America Cbgress assembled That
the Office Of officer for the district Of Salem and Bey
eryn the State of Massachusetts, be- and the Is
, hereby, abolished.
veyer lot SAD district to reside at Beverly be- and the
| same, is hereby, abolished
oEcS inat the salary of surveyor of said district shall
: | hereafter be four hundred dollars per annum.
! Approved February %, 1865
a. Ac. sian1ng to the Michigan City Harbor Company
the use Of Government Piers in said Harbor for the
purpose on protecting said Harbor.
ne tt enocted oy the Sende and Bo,s of P,Drssefd-
nres Ms 0gitea Sdtes 81 America in CONGRESS assem-