The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-06-29
OFFICIAL.

Of the customs and any officer other person entitled to
interested in part share Of any fine penalty or
forfeiture incurred under this other law Of the
United States, may be examined as witness in any of
the proceedings the recovery of such fine penalty or
forfeiture by either OF the parties thereto and such ex
animation shall not deprive such witness of his or her
share interest In such fine penalty or forfeiture
Sac. 3. And be IL further enacted That In case any
store warehouse other building shall be upon or near
the boundary line between the United States and any
foreign country and there reason to believe that uta
BILE goods are deposited have been placed therein or
carried through into the without payment of d
ties and in violation Of law aad the collector deputy col
iector naval officer or surveyor of customs shall make
oath before any magistrate competent to administer the
same that he has reason to believe does believe
such offence has been therein committed, such officer
shall have the right to search such building and the pre-
misses belonging thereto and If any such goods shall be
found therein, the same together with such build
ing, shall be seized, forfeited and disposed Of &C
cording to law, and the said building shall be
forthwith taken down or removed And any per-
son or persons who shall have received deposited in
aforesaid shall have aided therein in violation of law,
SHALL upon due conviction before any court of competent
Jurisdiction be punished by fine not exceeding ten thou
sand dollars by imprisonment exceeding yeas
or by both such fns and Imprisonment.
SEC. A. And be 1t further enacted, That the first
ton Of the act of April second eighteen hundred and
youryentitled San act directing the disposition Of
being illegally imported into the United States" be
amended that In place of the word one wherever the
be found in said section the word vs shall
Approved, February %, 1886.
An ACT making Appropriations for the Construction,
Preservation and Repairs of certain Notifications and
other Works Of Defence for the Year ending the hir
tisth Of June, eighteen hundred aud sixty six
Be enacted w the Senate and House Of Representative
of the United States Of America in Congress assembled
That the following sums be- and they are hereby, appro
priste out of any money In the treasury not otherwise
appropriated for the construction preservation and re-
pairs Of certain Notifications and other works OF defence
for the year ending the thrtieth Of june eighteen hum
bred and sixty-six:
For Fort Wayne, near Detroit Michigan, ssventyhve
For repairs Of Fort Niagara, near Youngstown New
York, twentyive 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 naIo S of Pen0e's0t River Maine
For Fort Popham, Kennebec river, Maine, seventyhve
thousand dollars
dollars.
For Fort Scanned, Portland, Maine, fifty thousand
dollars.
For Fort Georges on Hog Island Ledge Portland Maine
seventy thousand dollars.
For Fort Constitution, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
twenty-five thousand dollars.
For Fort McClary, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, fifty
thousand dollars.
For Fort Winthrop, Boston, Massachusetts, Thousand
dollars.
For Fort Independence, Boston, Massachusetts,, fv,
thousand dollars.
For Fort Warren Boston, Massachusetts, ten thousand
dollars.
Massachusetts, twenty thousand dollars.
For repair of Sea-walls on Deer and Loyes Islands
Boston harbor Massachusetts, fifty thousand dollars
For forts at New Bedford harbor Massachu
| setts nifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Adams, Newport Rhode Island, fifty thousand
| dollars.
For Fort Hale, New Haven, Connecticut fifty thousand
| dollars
For Fort Schuyler, East River New York, twenty-five
| thousand dollars.
For fort at wlet's Point opposite Fort Schuyler New
| York, fifty thousand dollars.
For repairs at Fort Hamilton, New York, twenty-five
| thousand dollars.
For fort on 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
thousand dollars.
For repairs of Fort Washington, Potomac River
twenty-five thousand dollars.
For Fort Monroe Hampton Roads, Virginia. twenty-five
thousand dollars.
For Fort Clinch, Florida, fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Taylor Key West Florida, two hundred thous'
and dollars. &C.,.
For Fort jefferson Garden Key Florida, one hundred
thousand dollars.
For fort Ship Island coast Of Mississippi fifty thos.
For fort at Fort Point San Francisco Bay California
onn hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Fort at Acatraz Island San Francisco Bay California,
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For additional defences at San Francisco California,
nifty Thousand COLLARS.
For defences of Washington three hundred thousand
dollars.
For field works and field operations million dollars.
For bridge trains and equipage 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
pagn maps, three hundred Thousand dolers.
For survey of Northern and Northwestern lakes ncud
ing Lake Superior hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars
For engraving and printing charts of lake surveys IF
| teen thousand dollars,
For purchase and repairs of Instruments twenty thou
sand dollars.
For repairing equipping and charging Fort Porter at
Buffalo, iity Thousand dollars
Approved, February 2s, 1866.
AN AcT relating the Enrolment and License Of certain
Vessels.
Be IL enacted BY the Senate and Hoaee of Representatives.
of the United States Of America Congress- assembled
That whenever shall become necessary for the
owners Of any 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 to which such vessels shall belong
procure her enrolment and license license
thereof the proceedings may be had in the district
in which said vessel then shall be, now, shall
then berequredby law application for such enrolment
and license, OF renewal thereof the case may be- in thu
district to which such vessel may belong excepting this
giving Of bond and the enrolment and issuance Of license
and the officer before whom such proceedings shall b.
had shall certify the same to the collector of the district
to which such vessel may shall belong, who shall there
upon the sadowner owners giving bond required
in all such cases. duly enroll the said vessel and issue II
In the form IL the application had originally
been made in this Office; and either deliver the said Ii
cense to said owner owners forward 1t by mail to
the officer who certified to him the preliminary proceed
ngs, aud who shall In such case deliver the said license
| to the owner owners master of the vessel: Pro
rded That this act shall not be construed In
respect to change existing laws excepting in far
enable such owners to procure enrolment lcenseor
newal thereof without returning their vessels to the
home ports or districts.
Approved, February %, 1856.
AN ACT to amend Act entitled An Act to regulate tn
Announcement of Tonnage of Ships aud Vessels Of TIN
United States approved May sixth, eighteen hundre
and sixtyfour.
Beitenacted by the Senate and House Of Representative
of the United States of America in Congress assembled Tina
the act entitled "An act to regulate the admeasuremen
of tonnage of ships and vessels eff the United Staes aI
proved May SIXTH eighteen hundred and sixtyour sha
be construed that part Of any ship or vessel shall
admeasured CT registered for tonnage that 10 used TO
cabins or statorooms and constructed entirely above tn
nrst deck which is not deck to the hull.
Approved, February %, 1865
AN Act concerning the Collection District Of Salem
Beverly, in Massachusetts,.
Be- enacted By the Senate and House Of Representatives.
ne United States Of America in Congress assembled That
me ONCE Of naval officer for the district of Salem and Bev
sa!shn me state Of Massachusetts, be- and the same i
Sec And Be further enacted That the Office of sur
or said district reside at Beverly be- and the
, same Is hereby, abolished
That the salary of surveyor of said district shall
heies ua ~ l p hundred dollars per annum.
AN ACT granting to the Michigan CITY Uarbor omn,nv
the use OF Government Piers in said Harbor for the
purpose OF protecting said IIarbor ' ~, ~
Be itendctedb by he Senate and Uo. ~ p..
tires Of the United States of America In ~ aP