The tri-weekly standard., 1866-11-13
CHAP. CLXIX.

An Act to further provide for the Collections OF
the Revenue upon the Northern, Northeastern
and Northwestern Frontier, and for other Pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re
preseltatives of the United States OF America in
Congress assembled, That from and after the first
day Oh October next, the master or manager of
ever vessel which is enrolled or licensed for car
ryin the coasting trade on tie northern, north
east rn, and northwestern frontiers of the United
States SHALL before the departure of his vessel
from any port, file manifest of his cargo with
the collector and obtain Il clearance and if said
shall touch at any OF the ports of the United
Sat =, and there receive on board any goods,
wares, or merchandise, or discharge any portion
of h r CARGO the muster or manager shall report
to e collector such arrival and produce his man
ifes and it shall be the duty of the collector to
end thereon, certified by himself, a descrp
ton If the goods wares, or merchandise so taken
'ard or unladen, and return the same to the
mas or manager, who shall deliver to the col
lect ,r of the port at which the unlading of the
car: /, is completed, the manifest to be placed on
file N his Office. And the owner or owners OF
.,efy vessel whose master or manager shall neg
snail forfeit and pay to the United States the sum
of twenty dollars for each and every offence, one
half for the of the informer, and for which sum
the vessel shall be liable, and may be seized and
proceeded against summarily by way of libel in
any district court of the United States having
in isdiction of the offence.
sec 2 And be it further enacted, That collec-
tors and surveyors of the collection districts on
the said frontiers authorized to keep on sale,
ances required for the business OF their districts
and to charge the sum of ten cents and no more
for each blank which shall be prepared and exc
cuted by them.
Sec ). And be it further enacted, That goods
imported under the reciprocity treaty with Great
Britain may be entered at any port on the north
ern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers oil
the United States, upon satisfactory evidence be-
ing given to the collector at the port where such
goods offered for entry, that they are of the
growth or production of Canada, without the con
suar certificate now required
Sec 4. And be it further enacted, That for every
entry of goods at any custom-house on the north
en, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers of
the United States, fee of forty cents shall be
charged by the collector al accounted for to the
government.
Sec s. And be it further enacted, That .he
Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,
authorized in all cases where ports may be opencu
within the limits of insurrectionary States, during
the existing rebellion, to appoint special agents
to perform the functions of the ordinary otficers
subordinate to the Treasury Departmet at sue
ports Provided, That the compensation to be al
lowed such temporary officers shall not exceed
that paid to permanent officers of the same posi-
ton during the year eighteen hundred and fifty
nine nor exceed the compensation ordinarily al
lowed to such official agents.
Approved, July IA, 1862