PHILADELPHIA MEMORIAL-TO THE SAME. nation, and ask for its natives alone an extensive That, whilst the people of the United States credit, as purchasers of public lands, they doubt may justly boast, that their country has been the the policy, or object to the extension, of credit to refuge of the oppressed of all nations, without emigrants from other nations. No: although their distinction, your memorialists, with pride, can say, request is limited, they believe that it might be that to the people of Ireland alone a cordial invi.justly made for all emigrants whatever, and grant. tation was given, by the illustrious congress of ed with honor and advantage to the United States.. 1775, to "seek, is the fertile regions of America, But if it should be said, that a prolonged credit an asylum from poverty and oppression." to emigrants would place them in a better situa. Grateful for this invitation, and for the friendly tion than our own citizens, your memorialists, in reception which succeeded its acceptance, thou- order to prove the error of this objection, refer to sands of exiles from Ireland evinced, in the field of the conduct of all nations possessing, like the the American revolution, that they were not un. United States, a population wholly inadequate to worthy of the proffered association. the settlement and improvemrnt of their extensive Equally anxious to partake of the blessings of territories. In particular, Russia in the Crimea, civil and religious freedom, thousands have since and England in Canada, offer lands to emigrant set abandoned the tombs of their fathers, and found tiers, not merely upon credit, but as a gift; nay, in America a home for themselves and their pos- such is the extent to which England, especially, terity. carries this policy, that she pays the expenses of Your memorialists, indeed, believe that a great their journey to Canada, for such of her subjects as er number of the people of the United States de. are willing, after their emigration to the United rive their origin from Ireland, in proportion to the States, to remove to that colony. And in doing so, population of that Island, than from any other Eu- it must be confessed, that those nations profit by ropean nation. the lesson, which experience has taught, that "the It would be surprising, therefore, if there did wealth and stability of a nation consist in the num. not exist, amongst the people of Ireland, a great ber, social comforts, and productive industry of the anxiety to transfer their affections, their hopes, and people." their industry to America; invited by the congress Il, indeed, the natural increase of our population, of 1775, attached by the ties of consanguinity, and great as that increase has been, bore any due proattracted by the certainty of enjoying, in the Unit. portion to the vast extent of territory, progressive. ed States, blessings unknown in Europe, they couldly acquired, by the United States; or, if the remonot hesitate without regret, or refuse wiihout mi. val of some of our own citizens, from Maine to Insery diana, for example, increased the national populaDuring the late eventful war in Europe, emigra- tion, there might be some plausibility in the astion from Ireland was checked by the policy of the sumption, that the grant of a longer credit to an British government,-for the advice and encourage emigrant, than to a citizen, would be impolitic or ment, therefore, of those, who reached our shores unjust: but this objection loses all its supposed within that period, personal sympathy and private force, when it is recollected, that many generations succour were amply sufficient: but so great has must pass away, before the lands of the United been the emigration, since the establishment of a States can become private property;—that the general peace, and so great is it likely to continue lands, asked on credit for emigrants, if granted, to be, that, in the opinion of your memorialists, would, in all probability, be paid for before they humanity and sound policy demand the co-opera. could be otherwise settled;-- that the early settletion of public generosity with privale philanthropy. ment of those lands would enhance the value of all Aware of this new condition of the Irish emi-those around them;-and that these effects would grants, our brethren of the city of New York have be produced, without causing the evils which honourably taken the lead, in endeavouring to ob. would result from the removal of our own citizens tain adequate means of relief; and they have so to the frontiers, a reduction of population and de. ably and eloquently described, in their memorial pression of property in other parts of the United to congress, the evils to be remedied, as well as states. the advantages wbich the remedy asked for would Your memorialists, with pride and pleasure, ad. yield, not only to the emigrants, but to the United mit that the advantages offered by our country to States, that little more is left to your memorialists emigrants from Ireland, are now sufficiently great than to avow their deep anxiety for the success of to induce them to make the United Slates their their application. home; and, they believe, that, if the extension of It is respectfully asked, that a portion of the un- credit, asked for, should be refused, emigration sold lands of the United States may be set apart, will still continue: but, your memorialists, at the for a settlement of emigrants from Ireland; that same time, are convinced, that, without some such every avenue may be closed, at which speculation favor as they earnestly solicit, many of the emi. might approach; and that the emigrant may have a grants will remain upon our sea-board, generally credit of fourteeen years, for the payment for the necessitous, and, from necessity, perhaps sometract, which he shall settle upon and improve. times immoral,-a burden too heavy for private The boon, actually asked, therefore, is a credit generosity, and a tas too rigorous even for public only of ten years beyond the term allowed to other compassion:purchasers of public lands; and your memorialists Whilst, should the prayer of your memorialists are aware that, the moment they say this, a con- be granted, they have no doubi bui that interest tracted view of the subject presents the objection, and sympathy would soon attract a numerous and of a supposed impolitic partiality, or unjust prefer active population to a territory now a wilderness: ence. This objection, lowever, has already been the fame of such a settlement, arising out of such overcome, in relation to emigrants from another national liberality, would appeal strongly to the nation; and your memorialists can not anticipate a hearts and understandings of thousands still in Ire. less grateful result from their own appeal. land; and the tenant of the cottage, the indusirious Let it not, however, be understood, that, because echanic, and even the man of capital, would no your memorialists are descended from a particular longer consider emigration afflicting or diffic : since he woull be received in a society of his own to this part of the subject, we are confident that Countrymen, and fostered by the generous policy our application will be placed on impregnable of his adopted country. ground, and that in acceding to our petition, your [DELEGATE-MR. WILLIAM J. DUANE.] It was with the hope of obtaining such a com- honorable body will become no less the benefactors fortable establishment as this, for emigrants from of the United States, than the friends of the stranIreland, that your memorialists formed themselves ger. The most profound writers on political ecointo an association: should their request be compli-nomy dispute, to this day, on the comparative proed with, they will be more anxious than ever, if ductiveness of various species of human labor; but that is possible, so to direct the steps of the emi- all agree that labor is the prop of social prosperity; grant, upon his arrival, that he may speedily par- and that one nation is more powerful and wealthy take of the liberality of congress, and evince his than another, provided they have equally good gogratitude by attachment to the institutions, zeal for vernments, exactly in proportion as the one contains the interests, and anxiety for the social happiness more productive laborers than the other. England of the people of the United States. can indirectly lay half the globe under tribute, because, in addition to her quantum of manual labor performed by her working class of people, she also supplants or supplies the work of three millions of hands, by her labor-saving machinery; and hence the prosperity of her manufactures. If the United States cannot successfully compete with Great Britain in manufacturing skill and labor, until we can obtain a denser population, and behold the wilderness smiling under the hands of cultivation; your honorable body will not fail to perceive the policy of extending our agriculture, that in the progress of society we may approximate towards the manufacturing state, multiply domestic intercourse, and become independent of foreign nations, as well for raiment as for food. BALTIMORE MEMORIAL-TO THE SAME. We, the members of the Hibernian society of Baltimore, actuated by motives of affection and humanity to our fellow-men, and by the sincerest attachment, to the honor and prosperity of these United States, would respectfully exercise the right of citizens, in submitting to congress this brief memorial, and representation of our sentiments and wishes, on a subject already brought before your honorable body. mies of their adopted country-for they remember their kit.dred already here, and will be grateful to congress for completing the links of their union, while cementing our own. We sincerely hope that congress will avail itself of the spirit of emigration now prevailing in Ireland, among the laboring and industrious class of farmers, or yeomanry, of that oppressed country; and we trust that they will take especial precaution to prevent speculation in the lands of the contemplated settlement, so as to secure each little farm to the actual cultivator, in full property. Having often witnessed, with poignant commisseration, the hardships and difficulties of emigrants from Ireland, on their arrival in this country, we could not but regret that our association was too Your memorialists, therefore, impressed with confined, and our means too disproportionate, to the strongest conviction of the reciprocal advanremove present obstacles, and point the industri tages to the state and the laborers, most earnestly ous stranger to a more permanent home, in a cli- solicit your honorable body to assign a tract of land mate congenial with his constitution, amidst lands in the Illinois territory, to be cultivated by eminot very dissimilar to those he had been accustom grants from Ireland, and paid for by the same, on ed to till, and among inhabitants whose manners a more extended credit than ordinary. In request. and habits nearly resembled his own. For howe-ing an enlightened congress to legislate on this ver hospitable and generous the American people subject, we are convinced that their so doing would are, the stranger too frequently finds the differ promote the public good; thousands of robust and ence of birth-place, and education removes to a laborious emigrants would flock to the new settlewide distance the members of the human family-ment, equally ready to subdue the soil, or the eneThe emigrant, arriving without a previous plan, and generally with very limited means, is tossed about by uncertainty, dissipating time and money in hopes of fortunate accidents, or losing them by rash adventures. These inconveniences the educated emigrant may bear with fortitude, without vielding to despair, or sinking into vice; but experience proves, that it is far otherwise with the laborious rustic; who, without education, lacks moral courage, and is unfort fied against the shocks of adversity. Loitering about sea-port towns, for want of a better destiny in the country, he procures employment perhaps during summer, but remains idle through the winter, wasting his hard earnings, sacrificing his time, vitiating his morals, and poisoning his health. When spring returns, this victim of dissipation cannot cheerfully resume his wonted labors, and is disqualified from joining in the exhitirating hum of vernal industry. He is no longer animated by health, or nerved with strength; and instead of contributing to the gene rai fund of wealth, becomes a dronish depredator upon it. Yet, under a more auspicious direction, this unfortunate being might have retained his morality and energy, and by producing more than he consumed, have furnished his quota of that surplus produce, which constitutes the foundation of public wealth, the material of exchange, and the source of commerce. We are induced to recommend a settlement in this exclusive manner, from beholding the felicity and comfort enjoyed by the New Englanders, Germans and Swiss. From emigrants of the same early habits thus settling together, a thousand fi bres of the heart remain unbroken; a thousand feel. ings of their nature are thus protected from violence; and mutual toil and travel are cheered by mutual sympathy; all evils are alleviated, all enjoyments encreased, by companionship-Such is our social nature. On taking the subject of this petition into consi deration, we feel confident that congress will approve of the project, in proportion to the degree in which they investigate it. They will confer comfort and happiness on multitudes, and at the same time increase the strength and resources of the nation. They will erect a barrier of irish materials on the frontiers, and thus add to the gene Omitting all further arguments founded on the duty of legislators to sustain morality, we would more particularly dwell on the importance of pro-ral security of the union. huctive labor. Soliciting the attention of congress Should your honorable body, grant the petition of your memorialists, we have substantial reason to believe that many families of opulence, long resident in this country, would purchase plantations in the neighborhood of the contemplated settle ment, and thus enhance the value of the public lands in that quarter. Trusting that your honorable body will see this business in a light, advantageous, as well to the United States, as to the party petitioned for, we most respectfully resign the subject into your hands, and your memorialists as in duty bound will ever pray, &c. Signed for and in behalf of the HIBERNIAN SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE, by the officers thereof, agreeably to order, at a public meeting of the society, held on the 20th day of January, 1818. LUKE TIERNAN, President. of such goods, wares, or merchandize, shall first give bond, with sufficient sureties, to the United States, to produce to such collector the invoice of of such goods, wares, or merchandize, within eight months, if the same were imported from any port or place on this side of the cape of Good Hope, and within fifteen months, if from the cape of Good Hope, or port or place beyond the same, and to pay any amount of duty to which it shall appear, by such invoice, the said goods, wares, or merchandize, were subject, over and above the amount of duties estimated on the said appraisement. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when an entry shall be made with any collector, of any goods, wares, or merchandize, imported into the United States, and subject to an ad valorem duty, the person making such entry shall, if he be owner of such goods, wares or merchandize, declare the same on oath, and if he be not the owner, shall de. clare on oath the name and residence of the owner of such goods, wares, or merchandize. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the ad valorem rates of duty upon goods, wares, and me:chandize, shall be estimated by adding twenty per cent. to the actual cost thereof, if imported from the cape of Good Hope, or from any island, port, or place beyond the same, and ten per cent. on the actual cost thereof, if imported from any other place or country, including all charges, except commissions, outside packages, and insurance. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the oath now required by law to be taken by any owner, consignee, agent, or importer, on the entry of any goods, wares, or merchandize, im. ported into the United States, such owner, con. signee, agent, or importer, shall, on the entry of any goods, wares or merchandize so imported, and subject to an ad valorem duty, declare on oath that the invoice produced by him exhibits the true va. lue of such goods, wares, or merchandize, in their actual state of manufacture. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in congress as sembled, That, from and after the passing of this act, no goods, wares or merchandize, imported into the United States, and subject to ad valorem duty, shall be admitted to entry with the collector Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That when of the district into which the same are brought, goods, wares, or merchandize, imported into the unless the owner, consignee, or other importer United States, subject to an ad valorem duty, shall of such goods, wares, or merchandize, shall probe consigned to any person to be entered by him, duce to such collector the original invoice thereof; and to be delivered to order, to any other person, but the same shall be deposited, and remain in the such goods, wares, or merchandize, shall be deppublic warehouse, at the expense and risk of the sited and remain in the public warehouse, at the exowner of such goods, wares, and merchandize, until pense and risk of the owner, until the person ausuch invoice be produced: Provided, however, thorized to receive them shall appear and make That in all cases where such goods, wares, or mer- the additional oath required by the fifth section of chandize, shall have been imported from a port this act, or (if such person shall not reside at the or place on this side the cape of Good Hope, if place of such importation) until the invoice of such such invoice or invoices be not procured in six good, wares, and merchandize, accompanied by a months, and from the cape of Good Hope, or any notorial act of his having taken the said oath, shall other port or place beyond the same, within nine be produced to the collector in whose district such months from the time of such importation, then the goods, wares, or merchandize, may be: Provided, said goods, wares, or merchandize, shall be apThat, if the provisions of this section shall not be praised, and the duties estimated thereon in the manner heremafter directced: And provided always, That this prohibition shall not extend to such goods, wares, or merchandize, as shall have been takenquired by this act. from a wreck. complied with in four months from the time of the importation of such goods, wares, or merchandize, the same shall be subject to the appraisement re Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That when Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the secre- goods, wares, or merchandize, imported, and subtary of the treasury be, and he is hereby, au hori-ject to duty as aforesaid, shall be re-shipped and sed and empowered, if, in his judgment, circum-transported coast wise, from one district to another, stances under which such goods, wares, or mer-in the packages in which the same were imported, chandize, shall have been imported, or any other an invoice, or a copy of such invoice, verified by circumstances connected therewith, render it ex- the additional oath required by the fifth section of pedient, to direct the collector in whose district this act, and certified under the official seal of the such goods, wares or merchandize, may be, to ad- collector with whom the entry on the importation mit the same to entry, op an appraisement duly | of such goods, wares, or merchandize, was made, made thereof, in the manner hereinafter prescribed: shall be produced at the port to which the same Provided, the owner, agent, consignee, or importer, shall be transported, and the same inspection of such goods, wares, or merchandize, shall be made, as if they had been brought direct from a foreign port or place; and if the invoice, verified as afore said, shall not be so produced, such goods, wares, or merchandize, shall be deposited and remain in the public warehouse at the expense and risk of the owner thereof, until the invoice, verified and certified in the manner above required, shall be produced; and goods, wares, and merchandize, im. ported, and subject to duty as aforesaid, may be transported coastwise, to one or more districts within the United States. able resident merchants, selected by the collector, together with a respectable merchant, chosen by the party in interest, who shall have severally tak en the oaths required by this section, shall be the appraisers: Provided, that in any case where the party in interest shall decline or neglect to choose a respectable resident merchant to join in such appraisement, the collector shall make the selection necessary to the due execution of this act, and the appraisement so made by them, or a majority of them, shall be valid and effectual in law; and the secretary of the treasury shall have authority to Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That any goods, direct the appraisers for any collection district to wares, or merchandize, imported and subject to attend any other district for the purpose of apduty as aforesaid, and belonging to a person or per- praising any goods, wares or merchandize, importsons residing, and at the time of such importation, ed therein, and for such service they shall, rebeing out of the United States, shall not be admit- spectively, receive at the rate of five dollars a day ted to entry, after six months from the passage of whilst engaged therein, and at the rate of five dol. this act, and if imported from a port or place on lars for every twenty five miles in going to, and this side of the cape of Good Hope, or after fifteen returning from such district; which shall form no months from the passage thereof, if Imported from part of the salary provided for by this act. And the cape of Good Hope or any port beyond the the president of the United States is hereby authosame, unless the invoice of such goods, wares, or rized, in the recess of the senate, to appoint the merchandize, shall be verified in the manner re-appraisers of the said ports, which appointments quired by the fifth section of this act, before the shall continue in force until the end of the next consul of the United States at the port at which session of congress, the said goods, wares, or merchandize, were ship Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That ány mer. ped, or before the consul of the United States in chant who shall be chosen by the collector, or by the country in which the said port may be; and the party in interest, to make any appraisement such owner or owners shall further declare on oath, required under this act, or under any other act rewhether he or they are the manufacturers, in whole specting imports and tonnage, and who shall, after or in part, of such goods, wares, or merchandize, due notice of such choice has been given, decline or are concerned, directly or indirectly, in the pro- or neglect to assist at such appraisement, shall be fits of any art or trade by which they have been subject to a fine of not more than fifty dollars, and brought to their present state of manufacture; and to the costs of prosecution in any court of the Unitif so, he or they shall further swear, that the pri-ed States having cognizance of the same. ces charged in the aforesaid invoice are the cur- Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That whenever, rent value of the same, at the place of manufacture, in the opinion of the collector, there shall be just and such as he or they would have received, if the same had been there sold in the usual course of trade: Provided, that if there be no consul of the United States in the country from whence the ship. iment of such goods, wares, or merchandize, is made, the oath hereby reuqired shall be made before a notary public, or other officer duly authorized to administer oaths, whose official character shall be certified by a consul of a nation at the time in amity with the United States, if there be one in such country. grounds to suspect that goods, wares or merchandize, subject to an ad valorem duty, and imported into his district, have been invoiced below the true value of such goods, wares, or merchandize, in their actual state of manufacture, at the place from which they were imported, such collector shall direct the same to be appraised in the manner prescribed by the ninth section of this act; and if the value at which the same shall be appraised, shall exceed, by twenty five per centum, the invoice prices thereof, then, in addition to the ten or twenty per centum, as the case may be, laid upon correct and regular invoices according to law, there shall be added fifty per cent, on the appraised value; on which aggregate amount, the duties on such goods, wares or merchandize, shall be es Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That for the appraisement of goods, wares or merchandize, required by this act, or by any other act concerning imports and tonnage, the president of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint in each of the ports of Bos-timated." ton, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charies. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That in all ton and New Orleans, two persons well qualified to cases where the appraised value of any goods, perform that duty, on the part of the United States, wares, or merchandize, appraised under this, or who before they enter thereon, shall severally make any other act concerning imports and tonnage, shall oath diligently and faithfully to inspect and exa- exceed, by less than twenty five per centum the mine such goods, wares or merchadize, as the col-invoice value thereof, such appraised value shall lector may direct, and truly to report, to the best be considered the true value of such goods, wares of their knowledge and belief, the true value there. or merchandize, upon which the duty is to be esof when purchased, at the place or places from timated, with the addition of such per centum as whence the same were imported; and, when any is by law required; but in all cases where the ap. appraisement is to be made in the said principal praised value shall be less than the invoice value, ports, the two appraisers, so appointed therein, the duty shall be charged on the invoice value in together with a respectable resident merchant, the same manner as if no appraisement had been chosen by the party in interest, and sworn in like made. manner, to examine and report, shall make such Sec. 13. .And be it further enacted, That any good, appraisement, the said merchant having also made wares or merchandize, subject to an ad valorem oath that he has no direct or indirect interest in duty, and belonging to a person or persons, residthe case; but when any appraisement is to be made ing, and at the time of the importation thereof bein ports other than those above named, two respect-ing out of the United States, and which shall be imported in the United States, but for the want of voice under bis official seal; and no other evidence the verification required by the 8th section of this of the value of such goods, wares, or merchandize, act not admitted to entry, shall be subject to the shall be admitted on the part of the owner or own. same appraisement, and to the same addition to ers thereof, in any court of the United States, ex the appraised value, as are prescribed by the ele. cept in corroboration of such invoice. venth section of this act, in the case of fraudulent Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That any per. invoices. son or persons, who shall counterfeit any certificate Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That one half or attestation made in pursuance of this act, or use of the duty accruing on the additional fifty per to be counterfeit, shall, upon conviction thereof, such certificate or attestation, knowing the same centum, which may be imposed on any goods, wares or merchandize, in virtue of the elevenih section of before any court of the United States, having cog. this act, shall be divided among the custom-house nizance of the same, be adjudged guilty of felony, officers of the port in which such goods, wares or and be fined in a sum not exceeding ten thousand merchandize, may be, in the manner prescribed by dollars, and imprisoned for a term not exceeding the act entitled, "an act to regulate the duties on three years. imports and tonnage," passed on the second of Sec. 21. And be it further enacted, That no dis. March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-count shall be allowed on any goods, wares or mernine. chandize, subject to ad valorem duty, admitted to entry, unless the importer shall expressly state, on Sec. 15. And he it further enacted, That before oath or affirmation, that such discount has been any goods, wares or merchandize, which may be actually and bona fide allowed to the owner or owntaken from any wreck, shall be admitted to entry, ers of such goods, wares or merchandize, in the the same shall be appraised in the manner prescrib- payment made for the same. ed by the ninth section of this act; and the same Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, that the col. proceedings shall also be bad, where a reduction lectors of the customs shall be required to cause of duties shall be claimed, on account of damage at least one package at least out of every fifty pacwhich any goods, wares or merchandize, imported kages, of every invoice of goods, wares or mer. into the United States, shall have sustained in the chandize, imported into their respective districts, course of the voyage. to be opened and examined, and if the same be Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That the ex. found not to correspond with the invoice thereof, penses of appraisements made under this act, shall or to be falsely charged in such invoice, a full inin all cases, be borne by the owner or owners of spection of all such goods, 'wares or merchandize, the goods, wares or merchandize, appraised, ex. as may be included in the same entry, shall be cept when the appraisement ordered under the made; and if any package is found to contain any eleventh section shall not exceed the invoice value article not described in the invoice, the whole of such goods, wares or merchandize, and where package shall be forfeited, and in case such goods, it shall be made on goods damaged by the voyage; wares or merchandize, shall be subject to an ad and except, also, when the goods, wares or mer- valorem duty, the same proceedings shall be had chandize, appraised, shall have been taken from a, and the same penalties shall be incurred, as are pro, wreck. vided in the eleventh section of this act: Provided, Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That each of that nothing herein contained shall save from for: feiture the appraisers who may be appointed under the any package having in it any article not de scribed in the invoice. ninth'section of this act, in the several ports there. in named, excepting New York, shall receive, as a Sec. 23. And be it further enacted, That any bond compensation for his services, one thousand five to the United States, entered into for the payment bundred dollars per annum, and the appraisers for of duties, by a merchant belonging to a firm, in the the port of New York shall receive each two thou name of such firm, shall equally bind the partner sand dollars per annum; and the merchants who or partners in trade, of the person or persons by whom such bond shall have been executed. may act as appraisers under this act shall receive for their services, while employed on that duty, a Sec. 24. And be it further enacted, That in all compensation of five dollars per diem; and the said cases, of entry of merchandize for the benefit of sum of five dollars per diem, for each of the ap; ed from the date of the clearance of the ship or drawback, the time of twenty days shall be allows praisers (whether official appraisers, or selected merchants) shall be paid to the collector, by the vessel in which the same shall be laden, for giving owner or agent of the goods, wares, or merchandize. That the exporter shall, in every other particular, the exportation bonds for the same: Provided, appraised by them, respectively, in all cases where such owner or agent may be liable to the expense comply with the regulations and formalities heretoof appraisement, before the delivery of such goods, fore established for entries of exportation for the wares, or merchandize, by the collector. The benefit of drawback. sums so received, shall be forthwith paid by such Sec. 25. And be is further enacted, Tbat all collector to the appraisers, and the amount so paid penalties and forfeitures incurred by force of to the official appraisers shall be in part satisfac- this act, shall be sued for, recovered, distributed, tion of their salary. and accounted for, in the manner prescribed by the act entitled “An act to regulate the colSec. 18. And be il further enacted, That for evelection of duties on imports and ionnage,” pasry verification made under this act, before a consul sed on the second day of March, one thousand of the United States, such consul shall be entitled seven hundred and ninety nine, and may be miti. to demand and receive from the person making the gated or remitted in the manner prescribed by Same a fee of two dollars. the act, entitled "An act to provide for mitigating Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That when any or remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and dis: goods, wares or merchandize, shall be admitted to bilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentionentry upon invoice, the collector of the port in ed," passed on the third day of March, one thouwhich the same was entered shall certify such in. sand seven hundred and ninety seven. |