tinguishing merchandise in bond from that of foreign origin and duty-paid, and that of the growth, production, or manufacture of the United States, whence shipped, and its destination.

Rev. Stats. sec. 2999.

Art. 221. The special manifests herein prescribed must be presented to the inspectors of customs stationed on the Isthmus for their examination and certificate of such fact thereon.

Art. 222. Such inspectors are required, before entering upon duty, to take an official oath, in the following form:

I,

FORM No. 65.

Oath of special inspector.

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having been appointed special inspector of the customs, under the 5th section of the act of March 28, 1854, to reside at do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that I will diligently and faithfully perform the duties of said office, and will use my best endeavors to prevent and detect frauds upon the revenue of the United States.

I do further swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States.

Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed) to before me at

this

day of

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They are also required to communicate such information or make such suggestions respecting the commerce between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States as may tend to the better security of the revenue, and to promptly inform collectors of customs at ports where they discover that frauds have been or may be committed.

CHAPTER III.

TRADE ON THE NORTHERN FRONTIERS.

Vessels trading on the waters of the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers of the United States otherwise than by sea.

Art. 223. The master of every vessel enrolled and licensed to engage in the coasting and foreign trade on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers of the United States, shall, before the departure of his vessel from a port in one collection district to a port in another collection district, present to the collector, at the port of departure, duplicate manifests of his cargo, or if he have no cargo, duplicate manifests setting forth that fact, which manifests shall be subscribed and sworn or affirmed to by the master before the collector, who shall endorse thereon his certificate of clearance, retaining one for the files of his office and deliver the other for the use of the master.

And in case such vessel shall touch at an intermediate port in the United States, and there discharge cargo taken on board at an American port, or at such intermediate port shall take on board cargo destined for an American port, the master of such vessel will not be required to report such lading or unlading at such intermediate port, but shall enter the same on his manifest obtained at the original port of departure, which he shall deliver, within twenty-four hours after arrival, to the collector of the port at which the unlading of the cargo is completed, and will subscribe and make oath or affirm as to the truth and correctness of the same.

Rev. Stats. sec. 3116.

Art. 224. The master of such vessel shall, before departing from a port in one collection district to a place in another collection district where there is no custom-house, file his manifest and obtain a clearance in manner aforesaid, and make oath to the manifest, which manifest and clearance shall be delivered to the proper officer of customs of the port at which the vessel next arrives, after leaving the place of destination named in said clearance.

Rev. Stats. sec. 3118.

Art. 225. The master of such vessel destined, with cargo, from a place in the United States at which there may be no custom-house to a port where there may be a customhouse, shall, within twenty-four hours after arrival at the port of destination, deliver to the proper officer of the customs a manifest subscribed by him, setting forth the cargo laden at the place of departure, or laden or unladen at any intermediate port or place, to the truth of which manifest he will make oath or affirmation before such officer; but if the vessel have no cargo, the master is not required to deliver a manifest.

Rev. Stats. sec. 3122.

Art. 226. The master of a vessel departing from any port in a collection district to another port in the same district, or to a place in the same district where there is no custom-house, will, before departing, file a duplicate manifest of his cargo with the collector and obtain a clear

ance.

And if such vessel shall touch at any intermediate ports and there receive on board any merchandise, or discharge any portion of the cargo, the master, or manager, will report such arrival to the collector of such port, and produce his manifest, and such collector will endorse thereon, certified by himself, a description of the merchandise so received or discharged, and return the same to the master or manager, who will deliver to the collector of any port at which the unlading of the cargo is completed the manifests endorsed as aforesaid, to be placed on file in his office.

Rev. Stats. sec. 3118.

Art. 227. The master of a vessel departing from a place in one collection district where there is no custom-house to a place in another collection district, where there is no custom-house, will be provided with a manifest, by him subscribed, of the lading of what kind soever on board at the time of his departure from the district from which he last sailed; and if the same or any part of such lading consist of distilled spirits, or merchandise of foreign growth or manufacture, specifying the marks and numbers of each cask, bag, box, chest, or package containing the same, with the name of the shipper and consignee of each; which manifest shall be by him exhibited for the inspection of any officer of the revenue, when by such officer thereunto required.

But if laden with distilled spirits greater in quantity than 500 gallons; wine in casks exceeding 250 gallons, or

in bottles exceeding 100 dozens; sugar in casks or boxes exceeding 3,000 pounds; tea in chests or boxes exceeding 500 pounds; coffee in casks or bags exceeding 1,000 pounds: or foreign merchandise, in packages as imported, exceeding in value four hundred ($400) dollars; or goods, wares. or merchandise, consisting of such enumerated or other articles of foreign growth or manufacture, or of both, whose aggregate value exceeds eight hundred ($800) dollars, such vessel must clear from some port in the district of departure.

Rev. Stats. sec. 3118.

Art. 228. The master of a vessel with cargo, passen. gers, or baggage from any foreign port or place must obtain a permit from the collector and comply with existing laws before discharging or landing the same, or any portion thereof; and merchandise, destined for any foreign port, must be reported as the law directs; but no permit will be required for the unlading of cargo brought from an American port.

Rev. Stats. sec. 3121.

Art. 229. Steam tugs, duly enrolled and licensed, when exclusively employed in towing vessels, are not required to report and clear at the custom-house; but when such steam tugs are employed in towing rafts or other vessels without sail or steam motive power, not required to be enrolled or licensed under existing laws, they must report and clear in the same manner as other vessels.

A vessel used exclusively as a ferry-boat between the United States and foreign contiguous territory, however laden, is not required to enter and clear, and the master or person in command thereof is not required to present manifest, nor to pay entrance and clearance fees, nor fees for receiving and certifying a manifest.

But such master is required to report, on arrival, to the proper officer of the customs any baggage or merchandise which may be imported in such boats from a foreign territory.

Canadian vessels making two trips daily or semi-weekly trips to United States ports are not considered as entitled to the exemption of ferry-boats.

The master of every vessel neglecting or failing to comply with any of the provisions or requirements aforesaid is liable to a penalty of twenty ($20) dollars.

Rev. Stats. secs. 3123, 3125.

Art. 230. Merchandise taken from any port or place in the United States, on said frontiers, to a port or place in another collection district of the United States on the said frontiers, in any ship or vessel, cannot be unladen or delivered from such ship or vessel within the United States except in open day, that is to say, between the rising and the setting of the sun, unless by special license from the collector or other principal officer of the port for the purpose, nor at any time without a permit from such collector or other principal officer for such unlading or delivery.

And the owner or owners of every vessel whose master or manager shall neglect to comply with these provisions shall forfeit and pay to the United States a sum not less than one hundred ($100) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500) dollars.

Rev. Stats. sec. 3120.

Art. 231. Vessels engaged in the coasting trade between ports and places on Lake Michigan exclusively, and laden with American productions and free merchandise only, may unlade without previously obtaining a permit.

Rev. Stats. sec. 3120.

Art. 232. If any merchandise shall be laden at any port or place in the United States on the said frontiers, upon any vessel belonging wholly or in part to a subject or subjects of a foreign country or countries, and shall be taken thence to a foreign port or place, to be reladen and reshipped to any other port or place in the United States on said frontiers, either by the same or any other vessel, foreign or American, with intent to engage in the coastwise trade of the United States, such merchandise shall, on arrival at such last-named port or place, be seized and forfeited to the United States, and the vessel shall pay a tonnage duty of fifty cents per ton on her admeasurement. Rev. Stats. secs. 3110, 4347; Desty S. & A. § 26.

Art. 233. The master of any foreign vessel laden or in ballast arriving in the waters of the United States, from any foreign territory adjacent to the said frontiers, must report at the office of the collector or deputy collector of customs nearest the point at which such vessel enters the United States waters, and present her clearance and manifest; and such vessel shall not proceed farther inland, either to take or unlade cargo, without a special permit from such collector or deputy, to be endorsed upon her clearance or manifest.