of

of duty.

in this Colony, for this port, and are entitled to be delivered free

ACT of the Government of Bermuda, to control Recruiting in Bermuda for the Service of Foreign States.

[No. 15.]

[September 19, 1874.] WHEREAS it is expedient that the Governor in Council should exercise full control over recruiting in these islands for foreign States:

We, therefore, &c., be it enacted, &c.:

1. This Act may be called "The Foreign Recruiting Act, 1874,” and it shall come into force on the passing thereof.

2. In this Act "Foreign State" includes any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any country, colony, province, or people beyond the limits of Bermuda.

3. If any person is in these islands obtaining or attempting to obtain recruits for the service of any foreign State in any capacity, the Governor in Council may, by order under his hand, either prohibit such person from so doing, or permit him to do so subject to any conditions which the Governor in Council thinks fit to impose.

4. The Governor in Council may from time to time, by general order notified in the " Royal Gazette newspaper, or by Proclamation under the Great Seal of these islands, either prohibit recruiting for the service of any foreign State, or impose upon such recruiting any conditions which he thinks fit.

5. The Governor in Council may rescind or vary any order made under this Act in such manner as he thinks fit.

6. Whoever, in violation of the prohibition of the Governor in Council, or of any condition subject to which permission to recruit may have been accorded—(a) induces or attempts to induce any person to accept or agree to accept or to proceed to any place with a view to obtaining any commission or employment in the service of any foreign State, or (b) knowingly aids in the engagement of any

person so induced, by forwarding or conveying him or by advancing money or in any other way whatever, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding four years, or to fine to such amount as the Court thinks fit, or to both.

7. Any offence against this Act may be inquired into and tried in the Court of General Assize of these islands.

ACT of the Government of Grenada, to remove Doubts as to the Rights of the Liberated Africans in Grenada.*

[No. 243.]

[May 8, 1856.] Be it enacted by the Governor, the Council, and Assembly of the Island of Grenada and its Dependencies, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows:

:

1. All liberated Africans domiciled or resident, or who hereafter may be domiciled or resident in the Island of Grenada or its Dependencies, shall be deemed to be and to have been for all purposes, as from the date of their being brought into or of their arrival in this Colony, natural born subjects of Her Majesty, and to be and to have been capable of taking, holding, conveying, devising, and transmitting any estate, real or personal, within this Colony.

2. For the purposes of this Act, the words "liberated Africans" shall mean and include all persons dealt with or detained as slaves who heretofore have been or hereafter may be seized or taken under any of the Acts for the abolition or suppression of the Slave Trade by Her Majesty's ships-of-war, or otherwise, and liberated or delivered to the officers appointed to protect, receive, or provide for such persons, and all other persons who as having been dealt with, carried, kept, or detained as slaves may have been taken and liberated or received, protected, or provided for under any of the said Acts.

3. Provided always, that nothing in this Aet shall in any wise prejudice or interfere with any of the provisions in relation to such liberated Africans as aforesaid of the laws in force for the abolition or suppression of the Slave Trade.

4. This Act shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's pleasure thereon shall be signified in this Colony.

*Confirmed by Act of October 7, 1872. Vol. LXV. Page 1286.

ACT of Congress of the United States, relating to Customs, Commerce, and Navigation over the Territory ceded to the United States by Russia; to establish a Collection District therein, and for other purposes.

[Chap. 273.]

[July 27, 1868.]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the laws of the United States relating to Customs, commerce, and navigation be, and the same are hereby, extended to and over all the mainland, islands, and waters of the territory ceded to the United States by the Emperor of Russia by Treaty concluded at Washington on the 30th day of March, A.D. 1867,* so far as the same may be applicable thereto.

§ 2. And be it further enacted, that all of the said territory, with its ports, harbours, bays, rivers, and waters, shall constitute a Customs collection district, to be called the district of Alaska, for which said district a port of entry shall be established at some convenient point to be designated by the President, at or near the town of Sitka or New Archangel, and a Collector of Customs shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall reside at the said port of entry, and who shall receive an annual salary of 2,500 dollars, in addition to the usual legal fees and emoluments of the office. But his entire compensation shall not exceed 4,000 dollars per annum, or a proportionate sum for a less period of time.

§ 3. And be it further enacted, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to make and prescribe such regulations as he may deem expedient for the nationalization of all vessels owned by actual residents of said ceded territory on and since the 20th day of June, A.D. 1867, and which shall continue to have been so owned up to the date of such nationalization, and that from any Deputy Collector of Customs upon whom there has been, or shall hereafter be, conferred any of the powers of a Collector under and by virtue of the 29th section of the "Act further to prevent Smuggling, and for other purposes," approved July 18, 1866, the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power to require bonds in favour of the United States in such amount as the said Secretary shall prescribe for the faithful discharge of official duties by such deputy.

$ 4. And be it further enacted, that the President shall have power to restrict and regulate or to prohibit the importation and use of fire-arms, ammunition, and distilled spirits into and within

* Vol. LVII. Page 452.

the said territory. And the exportation of the same from any other port or place in the United States when destined to any port or place in the said territory, and all such arms, ammunition, and distilled spirits, exported or attempted to be exported from any port or place in the United States and destined for such territory, in violation of any regulations that may be prescribed under this section; and all such arms, ammunition, and distilled spirits, landed or attempted to be landed or used at any port or place in said territory, in violation of said regulations, shall be forfeited; and if the value of the same shall exceed 400 dollars, the vessel upon which the same shall be found, or from which they shall have been landed, together with her tackle, apparel and furniture, and cargo, shall be forfeited; and any person wilfully violating such regulation shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding 500 dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months. And bonds may be required for a faithful observance of such regulations from the master or owners of any vessels departing from any port in the United States having on board fire-arms, ammunition, or distilled spirits, when such vessel is destined to any place in said territory, or if not so destined, when there shall be reasonable ground of suspicion that such articles are intended to be landed therein in violation of law; and similar bonds may also be required on the landing of any such articles in the said territory from the person to whom the same may be consigned.

§ 5. And be it further enacted, that the coasting trade between the said territory and any other portion of the United States shall be regulated in accordance with the provisions of law applicable to such trade between any two great districts.

§ 6. And be it further enacted, that it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to kill any otter, mink, marten, sable, or fur-seal, or other fur-bearing animal, within the limits of said territory, or in the waters thereof; and any person guilty thereof shall, for each offence, on conviction, be fined in any sum not less than 200 dollars nor more than 1,000, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both at the discretion of the Court, and all vessels, their tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo, found engaged in violation of this Act, shall be forfeited: Provided, that the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power to authorize the killing of any such mink, marten, sable, or other fur-bearing animal, except fur-seals, under such regulations as he may prescribe; and it shall be the duty of the said Secretary to prevent the killing of any fur-seal, and to provide for the execution of the provisions of this section until it shall be other. wise provided by law: Provided, that no special privileges shall be granted under this Act.

§ 7. And be it further enacted, that until otherwise provided by

law, all violations of this Act, and of the several laws hereby extended to the said territory and the waters thereof, committed within the limits of the same, shall be prosecuted in District any Court of the United States in California or Oregon, or in the District Courts of Washington, and the Collector and Deputy Collectors appointed by virtue of this Act, and any person authorized in writing by either of them, or by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall have power to arrest persons and seize vessels and merchandize liable to fines, penalties, or forfeitures under this and the said other laws, and to keep and deliver over the same to the Marshal of some one of the said Courts; and said Courts shall have original jurisdiction, and may take cognizance of all cases arising under this Act and the several laws hereby extended over the territory so ceded to the United States by the Emperor of Russia, as aforesaid, and shall proceed therein in the same manner and with the like effect as if such cases had arisen within the district or territory where the proceedings shall be brought.

§ 8. And be it further enacted, that in all cases of fine, penalty, or forfeiture, mentioned and embraced in the Act entitled "An Act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned," or mentioned in any Act in addition or amendatory of said Act, that have occurred or may occur in said collection district of Alaska, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, if in his opinion the said fine, penalty, or forfeiture was incurred without wilful negligence or intention of fraud, to ascertain the facts in such manner and under such regulations as he may deem proper without regard to the provisions of the Act above referred to, and upon the said facts so to be ascertained as aforesaid he may exercise all the power of remission conferred upon him by said Act, as fully as he might have done had said facts been ascertained under and according to the provisions of said Act.

§ 9. And be it further enacted, that the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe all needful rules and regulations to carry into effect all parts of this Act, except those especially entrusted to the President alone; and the sum of 50,000 dollars is hereby appropriated from any unappropriated money in the Treasury to carry this Act into effect and meet the expenses of collecting the revenue from Customs within the limits of the said territory.

Approved, July 27, 1868.