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Further allowance of drawback on sugar refined in the United States.

Penalties upon officers for not fulfilling the duties required by this act.

Appropriation for custom and warehouses, &c.

from molasses of foreign production; which oath or affirmation, in case the collector of the customs shall not be satisfied therewith, shall be supported by the certificate of a reputable distiller to the same effect.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the duly at present authorized to be drawn back on sugar refined within the United States, and exported therefrom, there may hereafter be drawn back on such refined sugar, when made out of sugar imported into the United States, the further sum of four cents per pound without deduction, which shall be allowed under the same provisions with the duty now permitted to be drawn back; and, furthermore, on the express condition that the person exporting the same shall swear, or affirm that the same, according to his belief, was made out of sugar imported from a foreign port or place; which oath or affirmation, in case the collector of the customs shall not be satisfied therewith, shall be supported by the certificate of a reputable refiner of sugar to the same effect, and that tho drawback on refined sugar heretofore imported, be allowed, subject to the regulations applicable to the drawback of duties on other imported articles.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That if any principal or assistant collector of the internal revenue, or collector of the customs, or other officer, shall neglect to perform the duties enjoined upon him by this act, he shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a sum not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be applied by the Secretary of the Treasury under the direction of the President of the United States, in the hire, purchase, or building of custom-houses, warehouses and stores, for the purposes of collecting and securing the revenue at suclfplaces, and in such manner as he shall deem most expedient.

Approved, April 30, 1816.

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Chap. CLXXIII.—JlnActmaking further appropriations for the year onethousand eight hundred and sixteen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for compensation to the commissioner appointed under an act entitled " An act to authorize the payment for property lost, captured or destroyed by the enemy while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes," and the further sum of one thousand dollars for compensation to the clerk, authorized by the act aforesaid; for the expense incurred by the board of commissioners appointed under the act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory, seven hundred dollars; and for additional compensation to the commissioners aforesaid, and their secretary, four thousand dollars; and for expenses of engraving, printing, and preparing certificates issued, and to be issued, by the commissioners, three thousand dollars; for the expense for clerks employed by the board of navy commissioners, seven hundred and fifty dollars in addition to the former appropriation; for the payment of pensions, an additional sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and for the payment of a clerk in the secretary's office of the Mississippi territory, employed by the governor of that territory from the first of April to the first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, two hundred dollars; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, April 30, 1816.

I. Resolution directing a copy of the documents printed by a resolve of Congrest, of the 2Tlh of December, 1813, to be transmitted to each of the judges of the Supreme Court.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that of the two hundred copies of the documents ordered to be printed by a resolve of the Senate and House of Representatives of the twenty-seventh of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby authorized to take one copy for each of the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, to be transmitted to said judges according to the provision of the act of Congress of the eighteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.

Approved, February 6, 1816.

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Feb. 22, 1816.

the Constitution.

III. Resolution requesting the President to present medals to Captain Stewart and the officers of the frigate Constitution.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Medals to CapStatesof America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the ^"office^iof'1 United States be, and he is hereby requested to present to Captain Charles Stewart, of the frigate Constitution, a gold medal, with suitable emblems and devices, and a silver medal, with suitable emblems and devices, to each commissioned officer of the said frigate, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of the gallantry, good conduct and services of Captain Stewart, his officers and crew, in the capture of the British vessels of war, the Cyane and the Levant, after a brave and skilful combat.

Approved, February 22, 1816.

IV. Resolution requesting live President to present medals to Captain James
Biddle, and the officers of the sloop of war Hornet.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby requested, to present to Captain James Biddle,of the sloop of war Hornet, a gold medal, with suitable emblems and devices, and a silver medal, with suitable emblems and devices, to each commissioned officer of the said sloop of war,intestimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of the gallantry, good conduct and services of Captain Biddle, his officers and crew, in capturing the British sloop of war, Penguin, after a brave and skilful combat.

Approved, February 22, 1816.

Feb. 22, 1816.

Medals to Captain Biddle, and th,c officers of the Hornet.

V. Resolution for printing the laws relative to naturalization.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be authorized and directed to cause to be printed four thousand copies of the laws now in force on the subject of naturalization. And, of the copies which may be so provided, two shall be sent to each marshal of a judicial district of the United States, two to the clerk or prothonotary for each court of the United States, or of a particular state, which may, by law, admit persons to be naturalized, and two to each collector of the customs. The remaining copies, after reserving such as the President of

April 16, 1816.

Four thousand copies of tho laws relating to naturalization of the United States to be printed and distributed.

the United States may deem proper for the use of the executive depart-
ments, shall be placed in the library of Congress.
Approved, April 16, 1816.

April 27, 1816.

Vol. 4, p. C08.

Register of the officers and agents, civil, military and naval,to bo compiled every two years by the Secretary of State.

List of the ships and vessels of the United States.

Distribution.

VI. Resolution requiring the Secretary qf State to compile and print, once in every two years, a register of all officers and agents, civil, military and naval in the services of the United States.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That once in two years, a register, containing correct lists of all the officers and agents, civil, military and naval, in the service of the United States, made up to the last day of September of each year in which a new Congress is to assemble, be compiled and printed under the direction of the Secretary for the department of state. And to enable him to form such register, he, for his own department, and the heads of the other departments, respectively, shall, in due time, cause such lists as aforesaid, of all officers and agents, in their respective departments, including clerks, cadets and midshipmen, to be made and lodged in the office of the department of state. And the said lists shall exhibit the amount of compensation, pay, and emoluments allowed to each officer, agent, clerk, cadet and midshipman, the state and county in which he was born and where employed.

2. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy subjoin to the list of the persons employed in his department, the names, force and condition of all the ships and vessels belonging to the United States, and when and where built.

3. Resolved, That five hundred copies of the said register be printed; and that on the first Monday in January in each year, when a new Congress shall be assembled, there be delivered to the President, the Vice President, each head of a department, each member of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, one copy of such register; and to the secretary of the Senate, and clerk of the House of Representatives, each, ten copies, for the use of the respective Houses; that twenty-five copies shall be deposited in the library of the United States at the seat of government, to be used like other books in that library, and that the residue of the said copies be disposed of in such manner as Congress shall from time to time direct.

4. Resolved, That for the information of the present Congress, such register as aforesaid be prepared and distributed as aforesaid, on the first day of its next session.

Approved, April 27, 1816.

April 29, 1816. VII. Resolution authorizing the President of the United States to employ a

skilful assistant in the corps of engineers.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ, in addition to the corps of engineers as now established, a skilful assistant, whose compensation shall be such as the President of the United States shall think proper, not exceeding the allowance to the chief officer of that corps.

Approved, April 29, 1816.

Vol. 4, p. GOT. An assistant in the corps of engineers to be employed.

VIII. A Resolution relative to tin more effectual collection of the public April 30, 1816.

revenue.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Collection of States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the the revenueTreasury be, and he hereby is, required and directed to adopt such measures as he may deem necessary to cause, as soon as may be, all duties, taxes, debts, or sums of money, accruing or becoming payable to the United States, to be collected and paid in the legal currency of the United States, or treasury notes, or notes of the bank of the United States as by law provided and declared, or in notes of banks which are payable and paid on demand in the said legal currency of the United States, and that from and after the twentieth day of February next, no such duties, taxes, debts, or sums of money accruing or becoming payable to the United States as aforesaid, ought to be collected or received otherwise than in the legal currency of the United States, or treasury notes, or notes of the bank of the United States, or in notes of banks which are payable and paid on demand in the said legal currency of the United States. . Approved, April 30,1816.

ACTS OF THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of
Washington, in the District of Columbia, on the second day of De-
cember, 1816, and ended on the third day of March, 1817.

James Madison, President of the United States; John Gaillard,
President of the Senate, pro tempore; Henry Clay, Speaker of the.
House of Representatives, (a)

STATUTE II.

Jan. 14, 1817.

Tonnage duties to be the same as by the act of 20th July, 1790, ch. 30, except, &c. Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 107.

Act of March 3,1817, ch. 109.

Proviso: as to treaty rights, &c.

Two dollars per ton on vessels from ports where, &c.

The duties to be collected as prescribed by law.

1817, ch. 50.

Chap. III.—An Act supplementary to an act to regulate the duties on imports and

tonnage. (6)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the tonnage duties to be paid by ships or vessels which shall be entered in the United States, excepting only such foreign ships or vessels as shall be entered from any foreign port or place to or with which vessels of the United States are not ordinarily permitted to go and trade, shall be the same as are provided by the act, entitled "An act imposing duties on the tonnage of ships or vessels," passed on the twentieth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety: Provided always, That nothing in this act contained shall be deemed in any wise to impair any rights and privileges which have been or may be acquired by any foreign nation under the laws and treaties of the United States relative to the duty on tonnage of vessels.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That on all foreign ships or vessels, which shall be entered in the United States before the thirtieth day of June next, from any foreign port or place, to and with which vessels of the United States are not ordinarily permitted to go and trade, there shall be paid a duty at the rate of two dollars per ton. And the duties provided by this act shall be levied and collected in the same manner and under the same regulations as are prescribed by law in relation to the duties upon tonnage now in force.

Approved, January 14, 1817.

Statute II.

Jan. 20,1817. Chap. IV.—Jin A^l to authorize a new edition of the collection of laws respecting

~'" the public lands.

The eollec- Be it enactedby the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

tion of land laws States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the

to be revised, United States be, and hereby is, authorized to cause the collection of

k< laws, resolutions, and treaties, printed under authority of an act, entitled

(o) The decease of the Honourable Elbridge Gerry made the office of Vice President of the United States vacant during this session, (o) See note of the acts relating to duties on tonnage, vol. i. 27.

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