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northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers of the United States, or a vessel intended to be employed in such trade, shall, on the first arrival of such vessel in any port of the United States, be liable to entry and the payment of an ad valoremRate of duty. duty of fifty per centum on the cost thereof in such foreign country; andPenalty for not reporting, &c. if the owner or owners or master of such vessel shall wilfully and knowingly neglect or fail to report, make entry, and pay duties as herein required, such vessel, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be seized and forfeited: Provided, That if the owner or owners or master ofIf equipments are purchased or repairs made from necessity, duties may be refunded. such vessel shall furnish good and sufficient evidence that such vessel, while in the regular course of her voyage, was compelled, by stress of weather or other casualty, to put into said foreign port and purchase such equipments, or make such repairs, to secure the safety of the vessel to enable her to reach her port of destination, then it shall be competent for the Secretary of the Treasury to remit or refund such duties, and such vessel shall not be liable to forfeiture, and no license or enrolmentLicense or enrolment, &c. not to issue to any vessel until equipments and repairs have been accounted for. and license, or renewal of either, shall hereafter be issued to any such vessel until the collector to whom application is made for the same shall be satisfied, from the oath of the owner or master, that all such equipments and repairs, made within the year immediately preceding such application, have been duly accounted for under the provisions of this section, and the duties accruing thereon after the passage of this act duly paid; andOath and penalty for false oath, &c. if such owner or master shall refuse to take such oath, or take it falsely, the vessel shall be seized and forfeited.

Certificate of registry, &c. fraudulently obtained, to cause forfeiture of vessel. Sec. 24. And be it further enacted, That if any certificate of registry, enrolment, or license, or other record or document granted in lieu thereof, to any vessel shall be knowingly and fraudulently obtained or used for any vessel not entitled to the benefit thereof, such vessel, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be liable to forfeiture.

Provisions of law relating to manifests to apply to vessels owned by foreigners.

1799, ch. 22. Vol. i. p. 627.
Post, p. 394. Sec. 25. And be it further enacted, That on and after the first day of July next, the several provisions of the act entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," approved March two, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, relating to manifests, shall apply as well to vessels owned in whole or in part by foreigners as to vessels of the United States; and that the Secretary of State send copies of this section to all consular officers of the United States in foreign countries.

Goods, &c. taken in any vessel from one port to another, on northern, &c. frontiers, to be unladen only in open day, unless, &c. Sec. 26. And be it further enacted, That no goods, wares, or merchandise, taken from any port or place in the United States, on the northern, northeastern, or northwestern frontiers thereof, to a port or place in another collection district of the United States on said frontiers, in any ship or vessel, shall be unladen or delivered from such ship or vessel within the United States but in open day, that is to say, between the rising and the setting of the sun, except by special license from the collector or other principal officer of the port for thePost, p. 394. purpose, nor at any time without a permit from such collector or other principal officer for such unlading or delivery. And the owner or ownersPenalty. of every vessel whose master or manager shall neglect to comply with the provisions of this section, shall forfeit and pay to the United States a sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars: Provided,Regulations for unlading at night. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, from time to time, to make such regulations as to him shall seem necessary and expedient for unlading at and clearance from any port or place on said frontiers of ships or vessels at night.

Regulations as to inspectors on vessels destined for one or more ports of the United States. Sec. 27. 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 necessary, relative to the duties of inspectors authorized by law, to be placed on board of vessels destined for one or more ports in the United States.