Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-04-06
PUBLIc-No. 45.l


AN ACT to revive certain provisions of the
act entitled 49, An act further to provide for
The collection ot duties on imports and ton
mage, approved March three, eighteen hun.
dled and fifteen, and for other purposes.
be II enacted by the Senate and House af Rsprs.
seatdtires cf The United States Of .amerca IN Gga.
gress assembled, That the first sentence of the
second section of the act entitled An act fur
ther to provide for the collection of duties on
imports anu tonnage, approved March three,
eighteen hundred and fifteen to wit That
il shall be lawful for any collector. naval Off.
Ger, surveyor or inspector of the customs, As
well in any adjoining district as that to which
he belongs, to stop, search, and examine any
carriage or vehicle OF any kind whatsocyer.
ana To stop any person travelling On foot or
beast of burden on which he shall suspect there
are goods, wares, or merchandise which are
subject to duty, or which shall have been i'm.
trodaced into the United States in anv man
ner contrary to law and ii such officer shall
/ stop any goods, wares, or merchandise on auy
such carriage, vehicle, person travelling on
loot or beast OF burden, which he shall have
probable cause To believe are subject 10 duty
or have been unlawfully introduced into the
United States, he shall seize and secure the
same for trial, be, and the same is hereby, re.
vived and re-enactcd; and every such beast of
/ burden, carriage or vehicle, together with The
| teams or other motive power and all the an
| purtenances used in conveying such goods
wares, or merchandise, shall be subject TO s.iz-
ufe anu forfeiture IN like manner as is by law
now provided III regard to such goods, wares,
and merchandise; and all fines, penalties and
forleitures recovered under this act, or in con-
sequence OF such seizures, shall be disposed of
As is provided in other cases 10y the ninety-frst
section OF the act entitled " An act TO regulate
/ the collection OF duties On imports and tom
mage, approved March second seventeen
/ hundred and ninety nine and the last prov /.
so OF said ninety-tirst section is hereby repeal.
/ cd. ~
/ Sec. ?. Aud be it further enacted, That
the power and authority given to collectors,
naval officers, and surveyors by the sixty
eighth section OF the said last mentioned act
be, and the same are hereby, extended to in
/ speetOrs OF the customs and any officer or
other person entitled to or interested in "a part
OF share OF any fine, penalty, or forfeiture in
CURED under this OF any other law of the Uni
ted States, may be examined as a witness in
any Of the proceedings for the recovery of
such fine, penalty, or forfeiture 10y either of
the parties thereto, and such examination shall
not deprive such witness of his or her share
or interest in such fine, penalty, or forfeiture
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
in case any store, warehouse, or other build
| ing shall be upon or near the boundary line
between the United States and any foreign
country, and there is reason to believe that
dutiable goods are deposited or have been p!ac-
cd therein or carried through or into the same
without payment of duties, and in violation
of law, and the collector, deputy collector, ma,
val officer, OF surveyor vi customs, shall make
oath before any magistrate competent to ad-
| minister the same that he has reason to be-
| lieye, and docs believe, that such offence has
been therein committed, such officer shall have
| the right TO search such building and the pre-
misses belonging thereto and ii any such
goods shall be found therein, the same, togeth-
CT with such building, shall be seized, forfeit
cd, and disposed of according to law, and the
said building shall be forthwith taken down
or removed. And any person or persons who
snail have received or deposited in such build
ing OF carried through the same any goods, as
aforesaid or shall have aided therein, in yio-
lation of law, shall, upon due conviction be-
fore any court OF competent jurisdiction, be
punished by tine not exceeding ten Thousand
dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two
years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Sec 1, And be it further enacted, That
the first section of the act of April second,
eighteen hundred and forty-four, entitled
- An act directing the disposition OF certain
unclaimed goods, wares, or merchandise, seiz-
oil for being Illegally imported into the United