The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-04
CHAP. LXXXI.

CHAP. LXXXI.
An Act supplementary to an Act approved on the
thirteenth July eighteen hundred and sixty-onc,
entitled 9 An Act to provide for the Collection
of Duties on Imports and for other purposes -
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the
Treasury, in addition to the powers conferred
upon him by the act of the thirteenth July, eigh-
leen hundred and sixty -One be, and he is hereby,
authorized to refuse clearance t" any vessel or
other vehicle laden with goods, wares, merch-
andise, destined for a foreign domestic port,
whenever he shall have satisfactory reason to
believe that such goods, wares or merchandise,
any part thereof, whatever may be their osten-
sible destination, intended for ports or places
i'll possession or under control of insurgents
against the United States; and if any vessel or
other vehicle for which a cerance or permit shall
have been refused by the Secretary of the Treasu-
ry, or by his order, aforesaid shall depart or
attempt to depart for foreign or domestic port
without being duly cleared or permitted, such
vessel or other vehicle, with her tackle, apparel
furniture, and cargo, shall be forfeited to the
United States.
SEC. .. And be it further enacted, That when
ever permit or clearance is granted for either
foreign or domestic port, it shall be lawful for
the collector of the customs granting the same
if he shall deem it necessary, under the circum
stances of the case, to require bond to be exc
cuted by the master or the owner of the vessel,
in Il penalty equal to the value of the cargo, and
with suretiCs to the satisfaction of such collector
that the said cargo shall be delivered at the desti
nation for which it is cleared or permitted, and
that no part thereof shall be used in afording aid
or comfort to any person or parties in insurrec-
ton against the authority of the United States.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby
further empowered to prohibit and prevent the
transportation in any vessel, upon any railroad,
turnpike, or other road or means of transporta-
tion within the United States, of any goods,
wares, merchandise of whatever character, and
whatever may be the ostcnsible destination of the
same, in all cases where there shall be satisfactory
reasons to believe that such goods, wares, or mcr-
chandise are intended for any place in the posses
sion or under the control of insurgents against
the United States; that there is imminent
danger that such goods, wares, or merchandise
Will fall into the possession or under the control
of such insurgents; and he is further authorized,
in all cases where he shall deem it expedicnt
to do, to require reasonable security to be given
that goods, wares, or merchandise shall not he
transported to any place under lnsurrectlonary
CONTROL and shall not, in any way, be used to give
aid or comfort to such insurgents, anu he may
establish all such general or special regulations
as may be necessary or proper to carry into effect
the purposes of this act; and if any goods, wares
or merchandise shall be transported in violation
of this act, or of any regulation of the Secretary
of the Treasury, established in pursuance thereof,
them, all goods, wares, or merchandise, SO trans
ported or attempted to be transported, shall be-
forfeited to the United States.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the
proceedings for the penalties and forfetures
cruing under this act maybe pursued, and the
same may be mitigated or rcmItted by the Secrc-
the eighth and ninth sections of the act of July
thir eenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to
which this act is supplementary.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the pro-
cceds of all penalties and forfeitures incurred
under this act, the act to which this is supple
mentary shall be distributed in the manner pro-
vided by the ninety first section of this act of
march second, seventeen hundred and ninety nine
entitled {" An act to regulate the collection of
duties on imports and tonnage"
Approved, May 20, 1862.