(ACT of March 2d, 1795.)

them shall receive his proportionable part of such fees, as shall arise in the port, for which he is appointed: Provided always, That in all cases, where the tonnage of any ship or vessel, shall be ascertained, by any person appointed for that purpose, such person shall be paid a reasonable compensation therefor, out of the fees aforesaid, before any distribution thereof, as aforesaid; and every collector and naval officer, and every surveyor, who shall reside at a port where there is no collector, shall cause to be affixed, and constantly kept, in some conspicuous place of his office, a fair table of the rates of fees, demandable by this act.

SEC. XXXV. All penalties and forfeitures, which shall be incurred by virtue and force of this act, shall and may be sued for, prosecuted and recovered, in like manner, as penalties and forfeitures, incurred by virtue of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels," may be sued for, prosecuted and recovered, and shall be appropriated in like manner: Provided always, That if any officer, entitled to a part or share of any such penalty or forfeiture, shall be necessary as a witness on the trial for such penalty or forfeiture, such officer may be a witness upon the said trial; but in such case, he shall not receive, or be entitled to any part or share of the said penalty or forfeiture, and the part or share to which he would otherwise have been entitled, shall accrue to the United States.

SEC. XXXVI. This act shall commence and take effect, from and after the last day of May next, and thenceforth the act, entitled "An act for registering and clearing vessels, regulating the coasting trade, and for other purposes," and also the act, entitled “ An act to explain and amend an act, entitled "An act for registering and clearing vessels, regulating the coasting trade, and for other purposes," shall be repealed, and cease to operate, except as to the validity of the registers, records, enrolments and licenses, with the certificates and documents, which shall have been done or granted, in pursuance of those acts, prior to the first day of June next, which shall continue to be of the like force and effect, as if the said acts were not repealed; and except also as to the prosecution, recovery and distribution of, and for fines, penalties and forfeitures, which may have been incurred, prior to the first day of June next, for which purpose likewise, the said acts shall continue in force.

SEC. XXXVII. Nothing in this act, shall be construed to extend to any boat or lighter, not being masted, or if masted, and not decked, employed in the harbour of any town or city.

ACT of March 2, 1795. 2 Bioren, 483.

SEC. 1. Coasting vessels, going from Long Island, in the state of New York, to the state of Rhode Island, or from the state of Rhode Island to the said Long Island, shall have the same privi

(ACT of March 2d, 1797.)

leges as are allowed to vessels, under the like circumstances, going from a district in one state to a district in the same, or an adjoining state.

ACT of June 1, 1796. 2 Bioren, 565.

22. SEC. I. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, to prepare a form, which, when approved by the president, shall be deemed the form of a passport for ships and vessels of the United States.

SEC. 1. Every ship and vessel of the United States, going to any foreign country, shall, before she departs from the United States, at the request of the master, be furnished by the collector for the district, where such ship or vessel may be, with a passport of the form prescribed and established, pursuant to the foregoing section; for which passport, the master of such ship or vessel, shall pay to the said collector, ten dollars, to be accounted for by him; and in order to be entitled to such passport, the master of every such ship or vessel shall be bound with sufficient sureties, to the treasurer of the United States, in the penalty of two thousand dol» lars, conditioned, that the said passport shall not be applied to the use or protection of any other ship or vessel, than the one described in the same; and that, in case of the loss or sale of any ship or vessel, having such passport, the same shall, within three months, be delivered up to the collector from whom it was received, if the loss or sale take place within the United States; or within six months, if the same shall happen at any place nearer than the Cape of Good-Hope; and within eighteen months, if at a more distant place.

SEC. 1. There shall be paid on every ship and vessel of the United States sailing or trading to any foreign country, other than some port or place in America, for each and every voyage, the sum of four dollars, to be received and accounted for, by the collector, at the time of clearing outward, if such vessel be bound direct to such foreign country, from any port of the United States, or at the time of entry in the United States, if such ship or vessel shall have sailed to such foreign country; from any port or place in America, other than of the United States.

ACT of March 2, 1797. 2 Bioren, 575.

23. SEC. I. Whenever it shall appear, by satisfactory proof, to the secretary of the treasury, that any ship or vessel hath been sold and transferred by process of law, and that the register, certificate of enrolment, or license, as the case may be, of such ship or vessel, is retained by the former owners, it shall be lawful for the said secretary to order and direct the collector of the district to which such ship or vesssl may belong, to grant a new register, certificate of enrolment, or license, as the case may be, on the owners, under such sale, complying with such terms and conditions as are, by law, required for granting of such papers; except

(ACT of March 2d, 1803.)

ing only the delivering up of the former certificate of registry, enrolment, or license, as the case may be: Provided, nevertheless, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to remove the liability of any person or persons to any penalty for not surrendering up the papers belonging to any ship or vessel, on a transfer or sale of the same.

An act in addition to an act, entitled "An act concerning the registering and recording of ships and vessels."

24. SEC. 1. No ship or vessel which has been, or shall be, registered pursuant to any law of the United States, and which hereafter shall be seized, or captured and condemned, under the authority of any foreign power, or that shall, by sale, become the property of a foreigner or foreigners, shall, after the passing of this act, be entitled to, or capable of receiving, a new register, notwithstanding such ship or vessel should afterwards become American property; but that all such ships and vessels shall be taken and considered, to all intents and purposes, as foreign vessels: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall extend to, or be construed to affect, the person or persons owning any ship or vessel, at the time of the seizure, or capture of the same, or shall prevent such owner, in case he regain a property in such ship or vessel, so condemned, by purchase or otherwise, from claiming and receiving a new register for the same, as he might or could have done if this act had not been passed. [Infra, 31.]

ACT of March 2, 1803. 3 Bioren, 532.

An act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act providing passports for the ships and vessels of the United States."

25. SEC. 1. Every unregistered ship or vessel, owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States, and sailing with a sealetter, going to any foreign country, shall, before she departs from the United States, at the request of the master, be furnished by the collector of the district where such vessel may be, with a passport, of the form prescribed and established by the act to which this is a supplement, for which the master shall pay to the collector ten dollars, and be subject to the rules and conditions prescribed in the said act, for ships and vessels of the United States.

SEC. II. There shall be paid on every such unregistered ship or vessel, sailing or trading to any foreign country, other than some port or place in America, for each and every voyage, the same sum, at the time of clearing outwards, to be received and accounted for in the same manner, as is by said act required in cases of ships and vessels of the United States.

ACT of March 2, 1803. 3 Bioren, 534.

26. SEC. 1. If any person shall knowingly make, utter, or publish, any false sealetter, Mediterranean passport; or certificate of registry, or shall knowingly avail himself of any such Mediterra

(ACT of March 27th, 1804.)

nean passport, sealetter, or certificate of registry, he shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, to be recovered by action of debt, in the name of the United States, in any court of competent jurisdiction; and, if an officer of the United States, he shall forever thereafter be rendered incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under the authority of the United States.

27. SEC. 11. [New certificates of registry to be provided, See infra 34.]

28. SEC. 111. When any ship or vessel, which has been, or which shall be, registered pursuant to any law of the United States, shall, whilst such ship or vessel is without the limits of the United States, be sold or transferred, in whole or in part, to a citizen or citizens of the United States, such ship or vessel, on her first arrival in the United States thereafter, shall be entitled to all the privileges and benefits of a ship or vessel of the United States: Provided, That all the requisites of law, in order to the registry of ships or vessels, shall be complied with, and a new certificate of registry obtained for such ship or vessel, within three days. from the time at which the master or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, is required to make his final report upon her first arrival afterwards, as aforesaid, agreeably to the thirtieth section of the act, passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, entitled, "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." And it shall be lawful to pay to the collector of the district within which such ship or vessel may arrive, as aforesaid, the duties imposed by law on the tonnage of such ship or vessel, at any time within three days from the time at which the master, or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, is required to make his final report, as aforesaid, any thing to the contrary in any former law notwithstanding: Provided, always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to repeal, or in any wise change, the provisions, restrictions, or limitations, of any former act or acts, excepting so far as the same shall be repugnant to the provisions of this act.

29. SEC. IV. The power vested in the secretary of the treasury, to remove disabilities incurred under the act to which this is a supplement, and under the act, entitled "An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels, to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same," shall extend to the remission of any foreign duties which shall have been or shall be incurred by reason of such disabilities.

ACT of March 27, 1804. 3 Bioren, 618.

30. SEC. I. No ship or vessel shall be entitled to be registered as a ship or vessel of the United States, or, if registered, to the benefits thereof, if owned in whole or in part by any person naturalized in the United States, and residing for more than one year in the country from which he originated, or for more than two

(ACT of March 12th, 1812.)

years in any foreign country, unless such person be in the capaci ty of a consul, or other public agent of the United States: Provi ded, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the registering anew of any ship or vessel before registered, in case of a bona fide sale thereof to any citizen or citizens resident in the United States: And provided, also, That satisfactory proof of the citizenship of the person on whose account a vessel may be purchased, shall be first exhibited to the collector, before a new register shall be granted for such vessel.

31. SEC. 11. The provision in the act, entitled "An act in addition to an act, entitled an act concerning the registering and recording of ships and vessels,' passed the twenty-seventh of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, shall be taken and deemed to extend to the executors or administrators of the owner or owners of vessels, in the said proviso described.

ACT of March 26, 1810. 4 Bioren, 261.

32. SEC. I. From and after the thirtieth day of June next, no sealetter, or other document, certifying or proving any ship or vessel to be the property of a citizen or citizens of the United States, shall be issued, except to ships or vessels duly registered, or enrolled and licensed, as ships or vessels of the United States, or to vessels which, at that time, shall, be wholly owned by citi zens of the United States, and furnished with, or entitled to, sealetters or other customhouse documents; any law or laws, heretofore passed, to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, nevertheless, That no sealetter shall be issued to any vessel which shall not at this time be furnished or entitled to a sealetter, unless such vessel shall return to some port or place in the United States, or territories thereof, on or before the said thirtieth day of June next: Provided, nevertheless, That no sealetter, or other document, certifying or proving any ship or vessel to be the property of a citizen or citizens of the United States, shall be issued to any vessel now abroad, which shall not, at this time, be furnished or entitled to a sealetter, unless such vessel shall arrive at some port or place in the United States, or territories thereof, on or before the said thirtieth day of June next.

ACT of March 12, 1812. 4 Bioren, 393.

Au act respecting the enrolling and licensing of steam boats.

33. SEC. 1. From and after the passing of this act, a steam boat employed or intended to be employed, only in a river or bay of the United States, owned wholly or in part by an alien, resident within the United States, may and shall be enrolled and licensed, as if the same belonged to a citizen of the United States, according to, and subject to all the conditions, limitations, and provisions contained in the act, entitled "An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same," except that in such case,