The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-02
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FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS tal
GENERAL NATURE-No. 60.l
AN ACT to amend and act entitled IAN
act to reduce duties on imports and to
reduce internal taxes, and for other pur-
poses," approved June sixth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-two, and for other
purposes. a. has s 4B4 J. i4ti
Be it enacted by The Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That on
and after the date Of the passage Of this
act, for all purposes relating to custom
duties and importation, "heading-boltso
shall be held and construed to be included
under the term ''stave-bolts." "a 1851
Sec. 2. That barrels of American
manufacture exported filled with domestic
petroleum and returned empty may be
admitted free of duty, under such regula-
tons as the Secretary of the Treasury may
prescribe, and without requiring the filing
of declaration at time of export of intent
to return the same empty. ssu M
SECTION 3. That foreign merchandise
which arrived at port of the United
States on or before the thirty-Arst day Of
July, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,
and upon which duties were not paid prior
to August first, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, though the same were not
entered or transferred to public store or
bonded warehouse, shall be entitled the
benefits provided for in the second section
of an act entitled San act to reduce duties
on imports, and to reduce internal taxes,
and for other purposes" approved June
sixth, eighteen hundred and seyenty-two,
the same as such merchandise would have
been entitled to had it actually been in pub
lie store or bonded warehouse on or prior to
the thirty-first day of July eighteen hum
dred and seventy-two: Provided, That the
owner of such merchandise shall, within
thirty days from the passage of this act,
make. application therefor in writing to
the collector Of the port at which such mer-
chandise arrived.
SECTION a. That on kid and all
other gloves imported into the United
States from foreign countries there shall be
no discrimination in determining by ap-
praisement the foreign market value Of such
goods, whether protected by trademark or
not, and that in no case shall the goods so
protected by Trademark be appraised at
less foreign market value than the like
goods not so protected; and no sale or pre-
tended sale of such goods shall be held to
fix the value of the same.
SECTION 8. That section fifty-five of the
act Of July twentieth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-eight, as amended by the act of
June sixth, eighteen hundred and Sc, enty-
two, be further amended by adding to the
first paragraph Of said section the words I,
''Prouided further, That the bonds requir.
ed to be given for the expectation of dis
titled spirits shall be cancelled upon the
presentation of satisfactory proof and GER
tificates that said distilled spirits have been
landed at the port Of destination named in
the. bill Of lading, or upon satisfactory
proof that after shipment the same were
lost at sea without fault or neglect of the
owner or shipper thereof" ia-0 ca
Approved, March 3, 1873.
~ GENERAL NATURE-No. 66.l
AN ACT to amend an act entitled can
act to establish the Department of JUS
tice. and for other purposes"
Be it enacted by the Senate and the
House of Representatives of the United
State of America in Congress assembled,
That the twelfth section of the act entitled
IAN act to establish the Department of
Justice, and for other purposes" approved
June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and
seventy is hereby amended so as to read as
follows: "That it shall be the duty of the
Attorney General to make to Congress, at
the commencement of each regular session
Of Congress, q report of the business of
the said department for the last preceding |
fiscal year, and Of any other matters APP
pertaining thereto, that he may deem pro-
per, including statement of the several
now, or which may hereaf-
ter be, placed under its control, the amount |
and detailed statement of |
the amounts used for defraying the ex-
penses Of the United States courts in each |
judicial district; also the statistics of crime
under the laws of the United States, and a |
statement of the number of causes, civil |
and criminal, pending during the preceding
year in each of the several courts of the |
United States. s &.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary Of the
Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized |
and required to furnish to the head Of the |
Department of Justice, from time to time,
rs they may be published, sufficient !
number of the statutes ofthe United States. |
and the reports of the Supreme Court Of |
the United States, to be by him distributed
to such officers of the courts of the United |
States as are now or may hereafter be by
law entitled to receive them; and all laws |
Or parts of laws authorizing the distribu- |
lion of such statutes and reports of the
Supreme Court to the officers of the courts
Of the United States by the head of any
other Executive Department of the govern
ment be, and the same are hereby repealed.
SEC. 8. That register of such books
shall be kept under the authority of the
head of the Department of Justice, show
ing the quantity of each kind received by
him in pursuance of this act; and it shall
be his duty to cause to be entered in such
register, and at the proper time, when,
where, and to whom the same, or any part |
Of them, have been distributed and deliver
cred, and to report the same to Congress in
his annual report. q
Approved, March 3, 1873.
,asa GENERAL NATURE-No. III
AN ACT to amend the law requiring off |