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§ 17. That in the territory of the United States northwest of Districts in the river Ohio, there shall be six districts, to wit: Erie, Detroit, northwest of the territory Michilimackinac, Massac, Illinois, and Ohio. The district of the Ohio; Erie shall include all the waters, shores, and inlets, of lake Erie, ports of entry within the jurisdiction of the United States, and the rivers and and delivery; collectors, &c. waters connected therewith, from the west line of the state of District of Pennsylvania unto the west bank of the Miami of lake Erie, in- Erie. cluding said river; and the president of the United States is Vol. ii. p. 873, 973, 1043, authorized to establish such place, at or near Sandusky, or on 1193. the said river Miami, to be the port of entry, as he shall judge Vol. iii. p. expedient, and also to establish not exceeding two other places 1671, 1821. to be ports of delivery only; and a collector shall be appointed,

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to reside at the port of entry, and surveyors, to reside at such ports of delivery as may be established, as aforesaid. The dis- District of Detrict of Detroit shall include all the waters, shores, and inlets, troit. of the lakes Erie, St. Clair, and Huron, within the jurisdiction of the United States, and the rivers and waters connected therewith, to the westward of the river Miami aforesaid, unto the island of Michilimackinac; and a collector shall be appointed, to reside at Detroit, which shall be the sole port of entry for the district; and the president of the United States is authorized, if he shall judge it expedient, to establish, not exceeding two ports of delivery within the said district, and to appoint surveyors to reside thereat. The district of Michilimackinac District of shall include the island of that name, the adjoining lands, ceded Michilimackito the United States by the Indian nations at the treaty of Greenville, and all the waters, shores, and inlets, to the westward and northward of the lakes Michigan and Superior, and the rivers, waters, shores, and lakes, connected therewith, lying within the jurisdiction of the United States, unto the northern and northwestern boundaries thereof. And the president of the United States is authorized to establish such place, at or near Michilimackinac, to be the port of entry for the district, as he shall deem expedient, and also to establish not exceeding three other places within the said district to be ports of delivery only; and a collector shall be appointed, to reside at the port of entry, and surveyors, to reside at the ports of delivery, which may be established as aforesaid. The district of Massac shall include District of the lands relinquished and ceded to the United States by the Massac. Indian nations, at the treaty of Greenville, in August, one thou- Vol. i. p. 814, Vol. ii. p. sand seven hundred and ninety-five, lying near the confluence 1043. of the rivers Ohio and Mississippi, and shall extend from thence to the mouth of the river Ohio, on the northern side of the said river, and up the river Ohio to the eastern side of the river Wabash, including the said river, with all the waters, shores, and inlets, connected with the rivers Ohio and Wabash, within the boundaries aforesaid. And such place, at or near fort Massac, as the president of the United States shall designate for that purpose, shall be the sole port of entry for the district, and a collector shall be appointed, to reside thereat; and it shall be lawful for the president of the United States, if he shall judge expedient, to establish, not exceeding two places, at or near the river Wabash, to be ports of delivery only, and to appoint surVOL. I.

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District of Illi- veyors, to reside thereat.

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The district of Illinois shall include all the waters, shores, and inlets, of the river Mississippi, above the mouth of the river Ohio, within the jurisdiction of the United States, and also the river Illinois, with the rivers, shores, and waters, connected therewith; and a collector shall be appointed, to reside at such place as the president of the United States shall designate to be the port of entry, and not exceeding two surveyors, to reside at such places as the president shall see fit to establish as ports of delivery only. The district of Ohio shall include all the waters, shores, and inlets, of the river Ohio, on the northern side, with the rivers, shores, and waters, connected therewith, lying to the eastward of the district of Massac, as before described; and a collector shall be appointed, to reside at such place as the president of the United States shall designate, at or near the confluence of the Great Miami river and the river Ohio, which place shall be the sole port of entry or delivery for the district. And there shall be a district on the river District on the Mississippi, south of the state of Tennessee, which shall include Mississippi, south of Ten- all the waters, shores, and inlets, of the river Mississippi, and nessee; port of other navigable rivers and waters connected therewith, lying entry and de- within the jurisdiction of the United States and south of the livery; collecsaid state; and it shall be lawful for the president of the United Vol. ii. p. 873. States to designate a proper place, to be the port of entry and Vol. iv p. delivery within the same, and to appoint a collector to reside The president thereat. And in case the appointment of the several collectors and surveyors for the new districts or ports established, or authorized to be established, hereby, shall not be made during the present session of congress, the president of the United States may, and he is hereby empowered to, make such appointments during the recess of the senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session; but new appointments shall not be necessary to be made to any of the offices heretofore established.

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may appoint collectors, &c. during the recess, &c.

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Ports of entry are ports of

§ 18. That it shall and may be lawful* to make entry of any make entry, ship or vessel, which shall arrive from any foreign port or place &c. elsewhere within the United States, or of the cargo on board, such ship or vessel, elsewhere than at one of the ports of entry hereinbefore established, nor to unlade the said cargo, or any part thereof, elsewhere than at one of the ports of delivery herein established. Provided always, That every port of entry shall be also a port of delivery: And provided further, That none but ships or vessels of delivery. the United States shall be admitted to unlade at any other than Ports to which the ports following, to wit: Portsmouth, in New Hampshire; foreign vessels Portland and Falmouth, New Bedford, Dighton, Salem and Beare restricted, verly, Gloucester, Newburyport, Marblehead, Nantucket, Boston &c. and Charlestown, Plymouth, Bath, Frenchman's Bay, Wiscasset, Machias, and Penobscot, in the state of Massachusetts; Newport, and Providence, in the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; New London, and New Haven, in the state of Connecticut; New York, in the state of New York; Perth Amboy, and Burlington, in the state of New Jersey; Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania; Wilmington, Newcastle, and Port Penn, in the state of Delaware; Baltimore, Annapolis, Vi

Ports to

the Cape of Good Hope, or beyond it, are restricted.

enna, Oxford, Georgetown, on Potowmac, Chestertown, Town Creek, Nottingham, Nanjemoy, Digges's Landing, Snowhill, and Carrolsburgh, in the state of Maryland; Alexandria, Kinsale, Newport, Tappahannock, Port Royal, Fredericksburgh, Urbanna, Yorktown, West Point, Hampton, Bermuda Hundred, City Point, Rockett's Landing, Norfolk and Portsmouth, in the state of Virginia; Wilmington, Newbern, Beaufort, Washington, Edenton, and Plankbridge, in the state of North Carolina; Charleston, Georgetown, and Beaufort, in the state of South Carolina and in either of the ports of Savannah, Sunbury, Brunswick, Frederica, and St. Mary's in the state of Georgia; or to make entry in any other district than in the one in which they shall be so admitted to unlade. And provided lastly, That no ship or vessel arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, or from which vessels any place beyond the same, shall be admitted to make entry at arriving from any other than the ports following, to wit: Portsmouth, in the state of New Hampshire; Boston and Charlestown, Newburyport, Salem and Beverly, Marblehead, Gloucester, Portland and Falmouth, in the state of Massachusetts; Newport and Provi. dence, in the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; New London, and New Haven, in the state of Connecticut; New York, in the state of New York; Perth Amboy, in the state of New Jersey; Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania; Wilmington, in the state of Delaware; Baltimore, Annapolis, and Georgetown, in the state of Maryland; Alexandria, Norfolk, and Portsmouth, in the state of Virginia; Wilmington, Newbern, Washington, and Edenton, in the state of North Carolina; Charleston, Georgetown, and Beaufort, in the state of South Carolina; and Sunbury, and Savannah, in the state of Georgia : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the mas. Proviso; as to ter or commander of any ship or vessel from making entry with entry where the collector of any district in which such ship or vessel may be the vessel is owned, or from which she may have sailed on the voyage from which she shall then have returned: Provided, also, That if the Vessels compresident of the United States shall see fit to establish a port of ing in at Ocracoke Inlet, delivery at Shell Castle, or Beacon Island, near Ocracoke Inlet, race come to and to appoint a surveyor to reside thereat, it shall be the duty at Shell Casof the master or commander of every ship or vessel coming in at tle, or Beacon Ocracoke Inlet, and intending to unlade her cargo, or any part Island, if the thereof, at any port connected with the waters of the said inlet, to come to at the port of delivery which may be established as aforesaid, and there exhibit like reports and manifests, and perform all other duties required by this act of masters of vessels when arriving at a port of entry in the United States; but no But no duties, duties shall be paid or secured at the said port of delivery; &c. Surveyor to the surveyor who may be appointed to reside at the said port of superintend delivery shall, in addition to other powers and duties granted unlading, &c. and prescribed to surveyors by this act, superintend the unlading and discharge of all goods, wares, and merchandise, from the vessels in which the same may be imported, into the lighters, or coasting vessels, which may be employed in the transportation of said goods, wares, and merchandise, to any port of entry or delivery connected with the said Ocracoke Inlet, and all

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fit, &c.

Goods unladen may be secured with locks, &c. to be accompa

nied with permits, &c.

Forfeiture of the lighter,

and 500 dolls.

goods, wares, or merchandise, which shall be so unladen into lighters, or coasting vessels, shall and may be secured with the necessary locks, or fastenings, or under the seal of the said surveyor, and shall be accompanied with permits, describing the said goods, wares, and merchandise, the vessel in which imported, the persons to whom belonging, and the port of entry or deMasters of livery to which destined. And the masters or commanders of all lighters to lighters or coasting vessels, who shall receive goods, wares, or give triplicate merchandise, to be transported as aforesaid, shall give triplicate receipts, &c. receipts, describing the casks or packages containing the same; and in case any goods, wares, or merchandise, transported under permits, and for which receipts shall have been given as afore. said, shall not be transported and delivered to the collector or surveyor of the port of entry or delivery to which the same shall be consigned by the permits aforesaid, the dangers of the seas and unavoidable accidents only excepted, or if any lock, fastening, or seal, placed on the said goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be broken or destroyed, the lighter or vessel employed in transporting the same shall be forfeited, and the master thereof shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, with costs of suit. And it shall be the duty of the surveyor, who of Shell Casmay be appointed to reside at the port of Shell Castle, or Beatle, &c. to endorse on the con Island, to endorse on the original manifests of vessels arrivmanifests all ing at said port, all deliveries which may be made as aforesaid, to the masters of lighters or coasting vessels as aforesaid; which manifests shall be exhibited to the collector of the interior port of entry, to which such vessels may be destined, where like entries shall be made, and like proceedings had, as are required by the general regulations and provisions of this act.

for failure to deliver goods,

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The surveyor

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lighters, &c.

Vessels bound

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§ 19. That the master or commander of every ship or vessel, to ports of de- bound to a port of delivery only, in any of the following districts, livery in the districts mento wit: Portland and Falmouth, except the ports of North Yartioned, to mouth, Freeport, and Harpswell: Bath, except the ports of come to at the Georgetown and Brunswick; Newburyport, New London, exports of entry, cept the port of Stonington; Middletown, except the ports of Vol. i. p. 777. Lyine, Saybrook, Killingsworth, Haddam, and East Haddam: Norfolk and Portsmouth; Bermuda Hundred, or City Point, Yorktown, Tappahannock, except the port of Urbanna; or Report, &c. in Edenton; shall first come to, at the port of entry of such district, writing, duties, &c. to be with his ship or vessel, and there make report and entry in writpaid, or secu- ing, and pay, or secure to be paid, all legal duties, port fees, and charges, in manner provided by this act, before such ship or proceed to vessel shall proceed to her port of delivery; and that any ship ports of deliv- or vessel, bound to a port of delivery in any district other than ery before those above mentioned, or to either of the ports of delivery above making entry. mentioned, may first proceed to her port of delivery, and afterwards make report and entry within the time by this act limited ; and the master of every vessel, arriving from a foreign port, or having goods on board, of which the duties have not been paid or secured, and bound to any port on Connecticut river, shall take an inspector on board at Saybrook, before proceeding to such port; and if any master of a ship or vessel shall proceed to a port of delivery, contrary to the directions aforesaid, he shall

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forfeit and pay five hundred dollars, to be recovered with costs ry contrary to of suit; that the master or commander of any ship or vessel, 500 dolls. bound to any district in Connecticut, through or by the way of Vessels bound Sandy Hook, shall, before he pass by the port of New York, and to certain disimmediately after his arrival, deposite, with the collector for the tricts to depodistrict of New York, a true manifest of the cargo on board such ship or vessel; if bound to the district of Hudson, shall, before mentioned. he pass by the port of New York, and immediately after his arrival, deposite with the collector thereof a like manifest; if bound to the district of Burlington, shall, before he pass by the port of Philadelphia, and immediately after his arrival, deposite with the collector thereof a like manifest; if bound to the district of Nottingham, shall, before he pass by the port of Town Creek, and immediately after his arrival, deposite with the surveyor of the said port a like manifest; if bound to the district of Tappahannock, shall, before he pass by the port of Urbanna, and immediately after his arrival, deposite with the surveyor of that port a like manifest; if bound to the district of Bermuda Hundred and City Point, shall, on his arrival in Hampton Road, or at Sewall's Point, and immediately after such arrival, deposite with the collector of Norfolk and Portsmouth, or with the collector of the port of Hampton, a like manifest; and if bound to the district of South Quay, shall, before he pass by the port of Edenton, and immediately after his arrival, deposite with the collector of the port of Edenton a like manifest; and the said Collectors, &c. collectors and surveyors, respectively, shall, after registering the to register the manifests, transmit the same, duly certified to have been so de- manifests, &c. posited, to the officer with whom the entries are to be made;

site manifests, &c. forfeit 500

doll. &c.

and the said collectors and surveyors, respectively, may, when- Collectors and ever they judge it to be necessary for the security of the reve- surveyors may put inspectors nue, put an inspector of the customs on board any ship or vessel on board, &c. as aforesaid, to accompany the same until her arrival at the first port of entry or delivery in the district to which such ship or vessel may be destined; and if the master or commander of any Masters omitship or vessel shall neglect or omit to deposite a manifest in ting to depo. manner aforesaid, or shall refuse to receive an inspector of the customs on board, as the case shall require, he shall forfeit and pay five hundred dollars, to be recovered, with costs of suit, one half for the use of the officer with whom such manifests ought to have been deposited, and the other half to the use of the collector of the district to which the said ship or vessel may be bound : Provided, That if the manifest shall, in either of the above cases, Proviso ; as to have been previously delivered to any officer of the customs, previous delivery of manipursuant to the provisions hereinafter to be made in that behalf, fests, &c. the depositing of a manifest as aforesaid shall not be necessary. § 20. That all officers and persons to be appointed pursuant Officers, &c. to this act, before they enter upon the duties of their respective appointed unoffices, shall, severally, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, take an oath, diligently and faithfully to execute the duties of their said of- &c. fices, respectively; which oath or affirmation shall be of the form and tenor following, to wit: I, (A B,) having been appointed Form of the (collector, or other officer, as the case may be) of the (district, or oath. port, of) do solemnly, sincerely, and truly (swear, or affirm) that I

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