Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-01
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Third Session of the Forty first
- - ~ Congress.
s-fPUBLIsHED ny AUTHORITY
GENERAL NATuRE-No. 15.l

lOENERAL NATUNE-NO. 10
AN Acr to amend section twenty-five of an act
entitled IAN act further to prevent snug
Cling, and for otherpurpeses, approved July
eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-siI
Belt enacted BY the Senate and House of Re
personalities of the United States Of america
an Congress assembled, That section twenty
two of an act entitled IAN act further to prevent
smuggling, and for other purposes" approved
July eighteen eighteen hundred and .sixty.six,
be, and the same is hereby, amended, 80 that
the same shall be as follows: aaias alse1 -,
SzC. % A,sd be it further enacted That if
any vessel enrolled or licensed to engage in the
foreign and eoastlng trade on the northern,
northeastern, and northwestern frontiers of the
United States shall touch at any port or place
in the adjacent British provinces, and the mas
ter or other person having charge ofsuch vessel
shall purchase any goods, wares, or merchan-
disc for the use of said vessel, said master or
other person having charge of said vessel shall
report the same, with cost and quantity thereof
TO the collector or other officer ofthe customs at
the first port in the United States at which he
shall nextarrive, designating them sea stores )"
and in the oath to be taken by such master or
other person in charge of such vessel on max
ing said report he shall declare that the articles
so specified or designated Hsea stores are truly
intended for the use exclusively OF said vessel,
and are not intended for sale, transfer, or
private use and be, upon examination and in
spection by the collector or other officer of the
customs, such articles are not deemed excessive
in quantity for the use of said vessel, until an
American port may be reached by such vessel,
where such sea stores can be obtained, such ar
ticles shall be declared free of duty but If it
shall be found that the quantity or quantities Of
such articles, or any part thereof SO reported,
are excessive it shall be lawful for theeollector
OF other officer of the customs to estimate the
amount of duty on such excess, which shall be
forthwith paid by said master or other person
having charge of said vessel, on pain or forfeit
ing a sum of not less than one hundred dollars
nor more than fsur times the value of such ex-
cess, or said master or other person having
charge of such vessel shall be liable to impris-
onment for term of not less than three months
nor more than two years, at the discretion of the
court And if any other or greater quantity of
dutiable articles shall be found on board such
vessel than are specified in such report or en-
try of said articles or any part thereof shall be
landed without q permit from q collector
or other officer of the customs, such articles, to-
gether with the vessel, her apparel tackle, and
furniture. shall be seized and forfeited: &Ep-
rised altcays, That articles purchased for We
use of or for sale on board any steamboat pro-
peller, or other vessel, as saloon stores or sup
plies, shall be deemed goods, wares, and mer-
chandise. and shall be liable when purchased
at foreign port to entry and the payment OF
the duties found to be due thereon at the first
Port Of arrival of such vessel in the United
States and for failure on the part Of the
saloon keeper or person purchasing or owning
such articles to report make entries and pay
duties, as hereinbefore required, such articles,
together with the fixtures and other goods,
wares, or merchandise, found in such saloon or
on or about such vessel belonging to and owned
by such saloon-keeper or other person interested
IN such saloon, shall be seized and forfeited.
and such saloon-keeper or other person pur-
chasing and owning as aforesaid shall forfeit
and pay the sum of not less than one hundred
dollars, nor moro than five hundred dollars. and
in addition thereto shall be imprisoned for q
term Of not less than three months nor moreth
two years 49, - -ses-...sr----re-
Approved, February TO- 1871. sslf 8-sAs