General Regulations Under the Revenue and Collection Laws of the United States, Volume 784

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A. O. P. Nicholson, Public Printer, 1857 - Customs administration - 749 pages

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Page 468 - All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon the United States, or of any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether absolute or conditional, and whatever may be the consideration therefor, and all powers of attorney, orders, or other authorities for receiving payment of any such claim, or of any part or share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void, unless they are freely made and executed in the presence of at least two attesting witnesses, after the allowance ' of such a claim,...
Page 35 - In the exercise of this power, congress has passed "an act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade, and fisheries, and for regulating the same.
Page 78 - ... contains, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a just and true account of all the goods, wares, and merchandise, including packages of every kind and nature whatsoever, which...
Page 85 - ... then the above obligation to be void ; otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 229 - Know all men by these presents : That we, , of , as principal, and , of , and , of , as sureties, are held and firmly bound unto the United States of America in the sum of dollars...
Page 114 - The master of any vessel of the United States documented to engage in the foreign and coasting trade on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers shall, upon arrival from a foreign contiguous territory, file with the manifest of such vessel a detailed list of all...
Page 264 - States, shall be reported to the collector, or other chief officer of the customs at the port of...
Page 184 - That it shall be lawful for the appraisers, or the collector and naval officer, as the case may be, to call before them, and examine, upon oath, any owner, importer, consignee, or other person, touching any matter or thing which they may deem material in ascertaining the true market value or wholesale price of any merchandise imported, and to require the production, on oath, to the collector, or to any permanent appraiser, of any letters, accounts, or invoices, in his possession, relating to the...
Page 549 - Act, which is similar, either in material, quality, texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any article enumerated in this Act as chargeable with duty, shall pay the same rate of duty which is levied on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned...
Page 134 - ... then this obligation to be void and of no effect, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

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