New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-10

! vent ana PUNISH lrRuds upon thereNenuet w ~.
vide for the more certain and speedy eoleouo4 90
claims in favor Of the United States, and Tor oteF
| purposes, y shall be taken and deemed as eAtenG-
ing TO and embracing all cases aIislug o. "lhotl
may have heretofore arisen, aha ~ suns ,3 auu
prosecutions heretofore brought tn9 now peAaliB'
or which NAV hereafter be brought against any
officer of the United states on othef person ny
reason of anv acts done or proceedings mad by
such officer or other person, under authority or
color ofsthe act approved March II, 1865 entitled
IN act to provide for the collection of abandoned
nranertv and for the prevention of frauds in in
surrectionary districts within the United States"
III the act approved July 2, 1864, en-
titled a an act in addition to the several acts
4 concerning commercial intercourse between loyal
and insurrectonary States, and to provide for the
| collection Of captured and abandoned property,
and the prevention of frauds in States declared in
| iusurreetion;n Provided, That such acts done or
proceedings had under the two acts last aforesaid,
! or under color thereof, shall have been done and
had under the authority or by the direction of the
executive government Of the United States. And
| provided further, That when a recovery shall
| have been or shall hereafter be had, in any such
suit or prosecution brought, as aforesaid the pay
ment of the amount recovered, as provided for in
| the said twelfth section of the act approved March
3d. 1868, aforesaid, shall be made out of the mon
! eys arising and obtained from the proceeds of
sales and leases and fees collected and paid over
| to the government, under the two acts approved
March 18th, 1868, and July I'd, 1864, aforesaid, in
1 relation to captured and abandoned prOperty.
| SEC. 8. And be 1t further enacted, That in de-
termining the dutable.value of merchandise here
after imported, there shall be added to the cost
or TO the actual wholesale price or general market
value at the time of expectation III the principal
| markets Of the country from whence the same
4 shall havebeen imported into the United States
the cost of transportation, shipment and tranship
ment with all the expenses included from the
! place of growth, production or manufacture,
whether by land or water, to the vessel in which
shipment il made to the United States; the value
Of the sack, box or covering Of any kind in which
such goods are contained; commission the usual
rates but ln no case less than two and half per
i centum; brokerage, export duty, and all other
actual or usual charges for putting mp preparing
and packing for transportation and shipment.
And all charges of q general character
incurred in the purchase of a general in
Voice shall be distributed pro rata among alparts
of such invoice; and every part thereof charged
with duties based on value shall be advanced ac-
cording to its proportion, and all wines or other
articles paying specific duty by grades shall be
graded and pay duty according to the actual val
ne SO determined. Provided That all additions
made TO the entered value of merchandise for
charges, shall be regarded as part OF the actual
yaIue of such merchandise, and if such addition
shall exceed by ten per centum the value so de-
clared in the entry, in addition to the duties i'm.
posed by law, there shall be levied, collected and
paid, duty Of twenty per centum on such value
Provided, That the duty shall in no case be as
sessed upon an amount less than the invoice OF
entered value. ProUtded further, That nothing
herein contained shall apply to long-eombing OF
carpet woods costing twelve cents or less pei
pound, unless the charges SO added shall carry the
cost above twelve cents per pound, in which case
one cent per pound duty shall be added.
SEC. 10. lind be ii further enacted, That the
second proYiso in section tWenty-one OF an act
entitled IAN act increasing temporarily the du-
ties on imports, and for other purposes Y APPROX
ed July IL, 1862, which provides that any goods
II remaining in public store or bonded warehouse
beyond three years shall be regarded as abandon
| ed to the government, and sold under such Tegu-
HAITI fl1a ofu1-vr 49,
scribe, and the proceeds paid into the treasury,
be and the same is hereby amended SO as to au-
thorize the secretary Of the treasury, in case of
any sale under the said provision, to pay to the
owner, consignee or agentfof such goods he pro
| ceeds thereof after deducting duties charges and
expenses, in conformity with the provision Of the
first section of the warehouse act of August 6,
1876,
SEC. IL. And be it further, enacted. That during
tthel period Of one year from the passage Of this
act, there may be imported into the United States
free of duty, any machinery designed solely for
and adapted to the manufacture of sugar from
beets, including all the preliminary processes
requisite therefor, but not including any machinery
which may be used for any other manufactures.
SEC. II. And be 1t further enacted, That upon
the Te-importation Of articles once exported of
the growth, produce or manufacture of the United
States, upon which no internal tax has been as
sessed or paid, and upon which such tax has been
paid or refunded by allowance or drawback, there
shall be levied, collected, and paid duty equal 20
the tax imposed by the internal revenue laws upon
such articles,
SEC 49, And be it furthe. enacted. That there
shall be established in and attached to the depart
ment Of the treasury bureau to be styled The
Bureau of Statistics" and the secretary Of the
treasury is hereby authorized to appoint a diree-
tor to superintend and control the business of
said bureau, who shallbe paid an annual salary
of thirty five hundred dollars And it shall be
the duty of the director of the bureau Of statis-
ties to prepare the report onthe statistics com
I MN Hag ilF1f tVsnN 4n4 -
required by law to be submitted annually to Con
gress by the secretary Of the treasury; and said
report, embracing the returns by commerce and
navigation, tile exports and imports of the
United States to the close lof the fiscal wear
shall be submitted to Congress in printed
form, on or before the first day Of De-
cember next, succeeding; and the said direc-
tor, as soon as practicable after the organization
OF TINS Office, shall, under the direction of the
lsecretary OF the treasury, prepare and publish
monthly reports of the exports and imports of
| the United States including the quantities and
values OF goods warehoused or Withdrawn from
warehouse, and such other statistics relative to
the trade and industry of the country, as the
secretary of the treasury may consider expedient.
And the director of the bureau of statistics shall
also prepare an annual statement of vessels regis
tered, enrolled and licensed under the laws of
| the United States, together with the class, name
tonnage, and place Of registry of each vessel
and such other information the secretary of the
treasury may deem proper to embody therein ;
ana 10 enanle Inc sald dlreef0f to furnish the
information required, the secretary Of the
| treasury. shall have power. under such regula!
tons as he shall prescribe, to establish and
provide system of numbering vessels so regis
tered, enrolled and licensed; and each vessel SO
lnumberedshall have her number deeply carved
I or otherwise permanently marked on her main
beam; and If at any time she shall cease to be SO
marked such vessel shall be no longer recognized
as aVesset Of the United States. The said director
shall also prepare an annual statement of all meI-
ehandise passing in transit through the United
States to foreign countries, each description OF
merchandise, SO far as practicable, warehoused
withdrawn from warehouse for Consumption for
exportation for transportation to other districts
and Temeining in the warehouse at the end Of each
fiscal year. It shall be the further duty of said
director to collect digest and arrange for the use
of Congress- the statistics of the manufactures of
the United Statess their localities sources of raw
material, markets., exchanges. with the pro
ducing regions of the country, Transports
ton Of products, wages, and such other
conditions as are found TO affect their
prosperity ; and to aid him in the discharge
Of these duties, the several clerks now employed
ia the preparation Of statistics in the treasury de-
partment, or any bureau thereof may be placed
under his supervision and direction and ia adj
dtion, the secretary of the treasury shall detail
such other clerks as may be necessary to fully
carry out the provisions of this act And the ex-
penses of the bureau of statistics for clerical SER
vice, publication Of reports stationery books. ana
statistical periodicals and papers required by the
bureau, shall be defrayedon the order and APP
proyal Of the secretary of the treasury out of any
I'M he