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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.-Of the registering, enroling and licensing, licensing and recording,
ships or vessels of the United States.......
SECTION L-Vessels entitled to registry.....
SECTION II.-On the distinctive character of permanent and temporary certificates of registry.
SECTION III.-On the granting of certificate of registry.....
1
2
SECTION IV. Registry of vessels purchased or owned by citizens of the United States in a
district other than that in which they reside......
10
SECTION V.-On the granting of certificates of registry to vessels not previously documented
as vessels of the United States
13
SECTION VI.-On registering of vessels previously documented as vessels of the United States.
SECTION VII -Issue and surrender of permanent and temporary certificates of registry......
SECTION VIII.-Change of master of vessel and oath on entry.....................................
SECTION IX.-On the enrolment and licensing of vessels to be employed in the coasting trade
and fisheries..........
SECTION X.-Change of vessels' names and record of conveyances..
SECTION XI.-On recording ships or vessels..........
SECTION XII.-Records and abstracts.............
SECTION XIII.-Foreign-built vessels wholly owned by citizens of the United States, canal
SECTION XVI-Vessels on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers of the
United States
113
SECTION XVII.-Passenger, steamships, and other vessels..........
115
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SECTION XVIII.-For the security of the lives of passengers on board steam vessels..........
SECTION XIX. On licensing yachts used exclusively as pleasure vessels.......
118
124
CHAPTER II.-On the entry and appraisement of merchandise, duties of impost,
SECTION V. Of the currencies in which invoices of foreign merchandise are made out.......
SECTION VII-Entry of baggage of passengers arriving in steamers.............
SECTION VIII-Entry of the manufactures or productions of the United States exported and
brought back....
151
152
SECTION IX.-Entry and delivery of articles belonging to foreign ministers..........
SECTION X-Special examination and entry of medicines, chemicals, and drugs..
155
SECTION XI-Entry of the products of American fisheries in the Pacific imported by way of
the interoceanic routes.....
CHAPTER II.-Continued.
SECTION XIII.-The frontier trade by land carriage or canal with the contiguous territories of
SECTION XVIII.-Abatement of duties for damage during the voyage of importation......
200
SECTION XIX. Of monies receivable and payable by public officers of the United States...
209
CHAPTER III.—Regulations under the provisions of the warehouse laws..................
SECTION I.-Warehouses
SECTION II.-Entry for warehousing.
SECTION III-Entry for withdrawal from warehouse............
SECTION IV.-Printing of silks in bond, Pongees, and other plain white........
SECTION V. Of the transportation and exportation of goods to the adjacent British provinces.
SECTION VI.-Inland exportation of goods in bond to ports and places in Mexico.......
SECTION VII.-Superintendent of warehouses...........
SECTION VIII. Of the officers in charge of warehouses............
211
219
225
256
258
278
282
283
SECTION IX. Of the cartage, drayage, or lighterage of goods in bond, &c...
SECTION X.-Relief from duties on goods injured or destroyed while in bond.........
SECTION XI.-Sales of unclaimed and other merchandise and miscellaneous warehouse pro-
visions.......
SECTION XII.-Form and manner of keeping accounts and making returns to the Treasury
Department
296
CHAPTER IV.-General powers and duties of officers connected with the collection
of the revenue from customs.........
SECTION I.-Collectors, naval officers, and surveyors
SECTION II. Of deposits by collectors of the customs.....
SECTION III.-Payment of fees and disbursements...
SECTION IV.-Accounts of collectors and disbursing officers..
SECTION V.-Inspectors, weighers, gaugers, and measurers..
SECTION VI.-General appraisers.....
SECTION VII.-The revenue-cutter service......
SECTION VIII.-Rules and regulations for the government of the officers of the revenue-cutter
service...............................
SECTION IX.-Consular officers.
CHAPTER V.-Bounties to vessels engaged in the cod fisheries and on the exporta-
tion of refined sugar......
SECTION I.-Fishing bounties.........
SECTION II-Bounty on exportation of refined sugar..
CHAPTER VI.-Marine Hospital Fund...................
SECTION I.-Collection and return of marine hospital money ........
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821
824
831
843
352
856
857
878
820
404
408
SECTION II.-Application of the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen..
CHAPTER VII.-Statistics of commerce and navigation.......
482
SECTION I.-An act to provide for obtaining accurate statements of the foreign commerce of
the United States, (February 10, 1820.)
SECTION II.-Regulations for statistical returns of commerce and navigation in pursuance of
the act of February 10, 1820....
485
CHAPTER VIII-Penalties, seizures, suits, the duties and compensation of the district
attorneys of the United States, and the mitigation and remission
of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and removal of disabilities......
468
SECTION I.-Prohibitions, penalties, and seizures.......
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SECTION II.-Seizure of merchandise not exceeding one hundred dollars in value under act of
April 2, 1844
469
SECTION III-Remission of fines, penaltics, forfeitures, and removal of disabilities..
SECTION IV-District attorneys of the United States.......
472
476
CHAPTER IX.—In reference to commercial intercourse with foreign nations under
treaty stipulations and laws of the United States.......
SECTION I. Of vessels of nations with whom the United States have commercial relations,
first class
SECTION II.-Second class.......
SECTION III-Third class..
SECTION IV.-Fourth class...
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488
486
489
SECTION V.-Fifth class.....
CHAPTER X.-Regulations under the Reciprocity Treaty between the United States
and Great Britain, concluded June 5, 1854...................
SECTION L-Articles entitled to free entry.......
493
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497
SECTION II.—Articles liable to duty under the existing revenue laws.......
SECTION III.-Proceedings on entry of articles claiming exemption from duty under the Reci-
procity Treaty..............
SECTION IV.-Regulations and decisions under the Reciprocity Treaty.........
CHAPTER XI.—In reference to the payment of duties and the exemption from such
payment on importations into the United States........
498
508
507
SECTION L.-Tariff of duties payable on the importation of foreign merchandise under the
tariff act of July 30, 1846..........
SECTION II.-Articles imported from foreign countries exempted from the payment of duty by
SECTION III.-Articles chargeable with duty as decided by the Department ........
SACTION IV.--Decisions on merchandise claimed to be entitled to free entry.............
553
592
acts of Congress dated July 30, 1846; March 29, 1848; August 12, 1848; January 26,
1849
550
CHAPTER XII.—Quarantine, pilotage, and other provisions of the revenue and col-
lection laws......
SECTION I. Quarantine or health laws.......
SECTION II-Protection of American seamen.......
606
607
SECTION III.-Pilotage, unlading of cargoes, passenger returns, foreign vessels proceeding
from port to port, and examination of baggage of, passengers arriving in other than
steam vessels
609
SECTION IV.-Regulations in regard to merchandise in transit from one port of the United
States to another over foreign territory
612
SECTION V.-Tonnage duties, obstructions in navigation, wrecks, duties erroneously exacted,
certificate of appraisement, imported spirits, and shipping articles...
616
CHAPTER XIII.-Light-house Establishment.......
622