The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-09-20

statement under OATH setting toith lhH ~
tire amount of such irea commissions, einoi-
umeutg o. rewards of whatever nature o.
from whatever source received, during The
time for which said statement Is rendered
and any lalse statement knowingly and VII.
fully rendered under tho requirements 81
this section, or regulations established ~
accordance herewith shall b. deemed wilinl
perjury, and punished on conviction thereof,
~ provided la section fOrty-twO Of the act OF
June thirty, eighteen hundred aud sixty
four, 20 which this act Is an amendment
and any neglect or omission 10 render such
statement when required shall De punished
On conviction thereof by % line Of not less
than two hundred dollars nor more than
five hundred dollars, Ia the discretion OF the
court.
SIC. 81. Ind b. u 6arfher enacted That 10
much Of this act as changes the existing law
relating 10 distilled spirits and ferInented
liquors shall take effect from and after the
iirN day OF September, eighteen hundred
aud siXty-six
PUNISHMENT FOR BRIBERY
SIC. G2. Ind be- n FURTHER caacied That If
any person or persons shall, directly or udi-
rcctly, promise, offer, or give or cause or
procure 70 he promised, offered, or given, any
money, goods, right IN action. bride, present,
or reward or any promise, contract, under
taking, obligation, or security for the pay
mont or delivery Of any money, goods, right
in action, bride, present, or reward, or any
other valuable thing whatever 10 any officer
of the United States, or person holding any
place of trust or profit, or discbargng any
official function under, or in connection with,
any department of the government of the
United states, after the passage of this act,
with intent To influence his decision or ac-
ton on any question, matter, cause, or thing
which may then he pending, or may by Law
be brought before him Ia his official capacity,
or in his place of trust or profit, or with in
tent 10 influence any such officer or person
10 commit, or aid or abct in committing, any
fraud on the revenue of the United States,
or 10 cOnniye at or collide in, or TO allow or
permit, or make opportunity for the com
mission Of any such fraud. and shall be
thereof convicted such person or persons 80
Offering, promising, or giving, or causing,
or procuring to be promised, offered, or
given any such money, goods, right in ac-
ton, bride, present or reward, or any pro-
mise, contract undertaking, obligation or
security for the payment or delivery of any
money goods right in action, bride, present,
or reward, or other valuable thing whatever,
and the officer or person who shall in any
wise accept or receive the same, or any part
any court of the United States having iuris-
dction, and shall, upon conviction thereof,
be fined not exceeding three times the
amount 80 offered, promised, given, accepted,
or received, and imprisoned not exceeding
three years; and the person convicted of 50
accepting or receiving the same, or any part
thereof if an officer or person holding any
such place of trust or profit, shall forfeit his
office or place. and any person SO convicted
under this section shall forever be disqual-
fled TO hold any Office of honor trust or
profit under the United States
SEC. G3. Ind be IL further enacted, That
hereafter in all cases of seizure of any goods,
wares, or merchandise which shall, in the
opinion of tho collector or deputy collector
making snch seizure, be of the appraised
value of three hundred dollars or less, and
which shall have been so seized rs being
subject TO forfeiture under any of the pro-
visions of this act, or of any act to which
this is an amendment, excepting in eases
otherwise provided, the said collector or
deputy collector shall proceed as follows, |
that il to say: lie shall Canse n list contain |
ing a particular description of the goods, |
MnreA. or merchandise sotzed "a be prepared
In duplicate, aud an appraisoment of the
same 10 be made by three sworn appraisers,
to be selected by him for said purpose, who
shall be respectable aud disinterestI ed Citi-
zens of the United States residing within the
collection district wh0roin the seizure was
made. Tho aforesaid list and appraisement
shall he properly nttested by snch collector
or deputy collector and the persons making
the appraisomcnt, for which service said APP
praisers shall he allowed the sum of one dol
lar and fifty cents per day EACH to be paid
as other necessary charges of collectors ac-
cording to law. If the said goods shall be
found by such appraisers to be of the value
of three hundred dollars or less, the said
collector or deputy collector shall publish u
notice, for the space of three weeks, in some
newspaper of the district where the seizure
was made, describing the articles and stating
the time, place, and cause of their seizure,
and requiring any person on persons claim
ing them to appear and make such claim
within thirty days from the date of the first
publication of such notice. PTOrjdcd, That |
any person or persons claiming the goods, |
wares, or merchandise, so seized, within the |
tmo specified in the notice, may file with |
such collector or deputy collector claim, |
tating his or their interest in the articles
seized, and may execute "A bond to the United |
States in the penal sum of two hundred and |
fifty dollars, with sureties, to he approved |
by said collector or deputy collector, condi- |
toned that, in case of condemnation of the |
articles so seized the Obligors will pay all |
the costs and expenses of the proceedings, to |
obtain such condemnation; aud up0n the |
delivery of such bond 10 the collector or
deputy collector, he shall transmit the same,
with the duplicate list or description of the
goods seized, TO the United States district |
attorney for the district, who shall proceed |
thereon in the ordinary manner prescribed |
by law: Ind proridcd also, That if there |
shall be no claim intepOScd, and no bond /
given within the time above specified, the |
collector or deputy collector, as the ease /
may lie, shall give ten days notice of the
sale of the goods, wares, or merchandise, by /
publications and at the time and place spe-
Gifted in said notice, shall sell the article so .
seized at public auction, and after deducting |
the expense of appraiscment and sale he .
shall deposit the proceeds to the credit of the
Secretary of the Treasury. And within one
year after the sale of any goods. wares, or
as aforesaid, any person or per
sons claiming to be interested in the goods,
wares. or merchandise 80 sold may apply to
the Secretary of the Treasury for remission
OF the forfeiture thereof, or amy of them, and
q restoration of the proceeds of the said
sale, which may be granted by the said Sec
rotary upon satisfactory proof, to be furnish
ri Ia such manner rs he shall prescribe;
iForidod, That il shall be satisfactorily shown
hat the applicant, at the time of the seizure
aud sale of the goods in question. and during
the intervening time, was absent out of the
United States, or in such circumstances as
him from knowing OF such seizure,
and that he did not know the same; and
also that the said forfeiture was incurred
without willnl negligence or any intention