The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-14

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District Of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth
day : December, 4. d. 1865, and e'aded on
iSttturClay, the taoenty-eighthday Of July, A.
d. 1862
PUBLIC ACTS. ...
ANDREW JOHNSON, President LA AFAYETTE
S. FOSTER, President of the Senate. LA
FAYETTE S. FOSTER was elected President
of the Senate pro tenalDore on the seventh
day of March, and so acted until the end
of the Session. SCHUYLER CoLFAX, Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
CHAP. CCI.I(Continued
An Act further to pervent Smuggling and for
other Purposes.
Sec. 81 And be it further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,
authorized to make such rules and regulations,
from time to time, as to him shall seem necessa-
ry, relative to the duties of inspectors authorised
by law to be placed on board of vessels destined
for one or more ports in the Uuited States.
Sec. 2s And be it further enacted, That all YES
sells which, under the provisions of the fifteen sec
ton of the act entitled "An act increasing tenn
porarily the duties on imports, and for other pur-
poses,n approved July fourteen, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-two, of the fourth section of the
act entitled ''An act to modify existing laws I'M
posing duties on imports, and for other purpo-
ses," approved March three, eighteen hundred
and sXtythrec, and of the fourth section OF an act
entitled 'An act amendatory of certain acts impo-
sing duties upon foreign importations," approved
March three, eighteen hundred and sXty-fve, are
exempted from paying tonnage duties more than
once in year, shall hereafter pay the same either
at their first clearance from or entry at, according
to priority, custom-house in the United States
in each calendar year: Provided, That all licen-
sed and enrolled and licensed vessels OF the Uni
ted States shall pay the said duty when taking
out renewing their respective enrolements or
licenses, if the same has not previously been paid
for the calendar year: And provided further, That
nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent
customs officers from collecting such tonnage du-
ty at the entry of any vessel at their respective
custom-hOuses during the calendar year, II the
same shall not previously have been paid for such
year: And provided further, That all vessels
which are subject to enrOlement or license shall
hereafter be liable to the payment of the fees es
tablished by law for services of customs officers
incident thereto.
Sec %. And be it further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is,
authorized, whenever he shall think it advanta-
geous to the public service of revenue, to abolish
suspend the offices of naval officer or any 9th
er subordinate office in any collection district of
the United States, except in those enumerated in
section nine of the act of May seven, eighteen
hundred and twcnt-two, and the amendment
thereto, by the act of April nine, eighteen hun
dred and siXty-four, and the port of San Francis
co, and to assign the duties OF the office or any
other subordinate Office abolished Suspen-
ded to deputy collector or Inspector of the Gus
toms; and so much of all fines penalties and for
FIXTURES as would otherwise nurc to either of such
naval officers shall, after the discOntinuance of
their offices respectively, be paid into the treas
ury of the United States and there credited to the
fund for defraying the expenses of collecting the
revenne from customs. And the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby further authorized, in all cases
in which, in his opinion, the public interest de-
mands it, to clothe deputy collectors, located at
ports other than the principal port of entry of
their respective districts, with all the powers of
,irIrt tO hoir acts
Sec. 80. And be it further enacted That no Of
ficer or clerk whose duty it shall be to make pay
ments on account of the salary or wages of rny
officer or person employed in connection with the
customs or the internal revenue service shall make
any payment to any officer or person so employed
on account of services rendered, or of salary, un
less such officer person so to be paid shall have
made and subscribed an oath that, during the
period for which he or she is to receive pay for
salary services rendered, neither he nor she,
nor any member of his or her family, has received
either personally or by the Intervention of anOih
er party, any money or compensation OF any des-
cription whatever, nor any promises for the same
either directly or Indirectly for services rendered
os to be rendered, or acts performed or to be per-
formed, in connection with the customs or inter
nal revenue, nor purchased, for like services or
acts, from any importer, (f af1iant is connected
with the customs, or manufacturer, If afant is
connected with the internal revenue service, con-
signee, agent, or custOm-house broker, or other
person whomsoerer, any goods, wares, or mer-
dl
therefor. And any person who shall wfully and
falsely take and subscribe said oath, and being du
y convicted thereof shall be subjected to the pen
alties and disabilities by law prescribed for the
punishment of wilful and corrupt perjury.
Sec. 81. And be it further enacted, That all
goods, wares, merchandise, or property of any
kind seized under the provisions of this act or
any other law of the United States relating to the
customs shall, unless otherwise provided fol by
law, be placed and remain in the custody of the
collector or other principal officer of the customs
of the district in which the seizure shall be made
to abide adjudication by the proper tribunal, or
other disposition according to law; and the pro-
ceedings in regard to fines, penalties, and forei-
lures by virtue of this act, and not herein pre-
scrlbed, shall be the same as arc now provided by
law in like cases; and all such fines, penalties,
and forfeitures SHALL after deductng all proper
costs and charges, be disposed of and applied as
provided for in the ninety first section of the act
entitled An act to regulate the collection of du-
ties on imports and tonnage" approved March
two, seventeen hundred and ninety mine.
Sec. 50. And be it further enacted, That in all
cases in which any collector or surveyor of Gus
toms has paid or accounted for, or is charged with
duties or fees acquiring under the act entitled "An
act to prOvite increased revenue from imports to
pay interest on the public debt, and for other
purposes" approved August five, eigh teen hun
dred and sXty-one or the act entitled I" An act to
increase duties on imports, and for other purpo-
ses," approved June thirty, eighteen hundred and
siXty-four, or the act entitled can act TO create
an additional supervising Inspector of steamboats,
and two local inspectors of steamboats, for the col
lection district of Memphis, Tennessee, and two
local inspectors for the district Of Oregon, and
for other purposes" approved June eight. eigl-
teen hundred and sixty -iour, or the act entitled
{" An act amcndatOry of certain acts imposing du.
ties on foreign impOrtations," approved March
three, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and in re-
gard to which the Secretary of the Treasury shall
be satisfied that the collection of said duties or
fees omitted by such collector or surveyor,
or by any steamboat inspector, for the reason that