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Violations of this act to be reported.

ered by any person suing therefor in any court of the United States in the district where such delinquent may reside or be found.

Twentieth. It shall be the duty of the boarding officer to report all violations of this act to the collector of the port where any vessel may arrive, and the collector shall report the same to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the attorney of the United States in his district.

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Stat. at Large, CHAP. LXIX. — PRIVATE ACTS. An Act for the Relief of Chastelain and Ponvert,

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and for other Purposes.

SEC. 7. That the third section of the act of July seven, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled "An act to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes," be and the same is hereby revived and continued in force for the year eighteen hundred and forty, and until otherwise directed by law.

No. 231.- MARCH 3, 1841.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. XXXV. - An Act making Appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year eighteen hundred and forty-one.

Vol. V. p. 421.

Additional ac

counts to be rendered by collectors, &c. See 1857, ch. 108, § 8.

money over

$2000 a year, received for

rents, storage,

&c. to be paid into the treasury.

SEC. 5. That in addition to the account now required to be rendered by every collector of customs, naval officer and surveyor of ports, every such collector, naval officer and surveyor shall, each and every year hereafter, render a quarter-yearly account, under oath, to the Secretary of the Treasury, in such form as said secretary shall prescribe, of all sums of money by each of them respectively received or collected for fines, penalties, or forfeitures, or for seizure of goods, wares, or merchandise, or upon compromises made upon said seizure; or on account of suits instituted for frauds against the revenue laws; or for rent and storage of goods, wares, or merchandise, which may be stored in the public store-houses, and for which a rent is paid, beyond the rents paid by the collector or other such The excess of officer; and if from such accounting it shall appear that the money received in any one year by any collector, naval officer, or surveyor, on account and for rents and storage, as aforesaid, and for fees and emoluments, shall in the aggregate, exceed the sum of two thousand dollars, such excess shall be paid by the said collector, naval officer, or surveyor, as the case may be, into the treasury of the United States, as part and Compensation parcel of the public money; and no such collector shall, on any pretence whatsoever, hereafter receive, hold, or retain for himself, in the aggregate, more than six thousand dollars per year, including all commissions for duties, and all fees for storage, or fees or emoluments, or any other commisNaval officers sions or salaries which are now allowed and limited by law. Nor shall such naval officer on any pretence whatever, in the aggregate, receive, hold, or retain for himself, hereafter, more than five thousand dollars per year, including all commissions on duties, and all fees for storage, or fees or emoluments, or any other commissions or salaries which are now allowed and limited by law. Nor shall such surveyor, in the aggregate, receive, hold, or retain for himself, hereafter, more than four thousand five hundred dollars per year, including all commissions or fees or emoluments or any other commissions or salaries which are now allowed and limited by law: Provided, The aggregate sums allowed per year to the several officers aforesaid shall be exclusive of the necessary expenses incident to their respective offices, in the same year, subject to the regulation of the Secretary of the Treasury;

of collectors limited.

limited.

Surveyors limited.

Proviso.

All stores hereafter rented to

SEC. 6. That all stores hereafter rented by the collector, naval officer, or surveyor, shall be on public account, and paid for by the collector as

such, and shall be appropriated exclusively to the use of receiving for- be on public eign merchandise, subject as to the rates of storage, to regulation by the account, &c. Secretary of the Treasury;

False swear

to be deemed perjury.

SEC. 7. That every collector, naval officer, and surveyor of the several ports of the United States, who shall be guilty of false swearing in taking ing to the acthe oath, at the rendition of his accounts as required by the fifth section by the 5th secof this act to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the tion of this act, counts required intention to deceive and defraud the Government of the United States, shall be deemed to be guilty of perjury, and liable to the same prosecution and penalty inflicted for like offences, to be tried and adjudged in any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, whenever in his opinion the said offence has been perpetrated as aforesaid, to direct the district attorney dist. attorney of the United States for the district within which the same has occurred to prosecute the may direct the to prosecute the offender; SEC. 8. That all laws, or parts of laws, inconsistent with the provisoffender. ions of the fifth, sixth, and seventh sections of this act, are hereby re- 5th, 6th, and 7th pealed.

Sec. Treasury

Laws inconsistent with the

sections of this act, repealed.

No. 232.

MARCH 3, 1841.

CHAP. XL.

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An Act to abolish the Port of Delivery and the Office of Surveyor of the
Customs at Currituck Inlet in North Carolina.

Be it enacted, &c. That the port of delivery and the office of Surveyor of the Customs at Currituck Inlet in North Carolina be, and the same are hereby abolished, and that all laws in conflict with this act be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Stat. at Large, Vol. V. p. 436.

The port and and laws in conflict with this office abolished, act repealed.

No. 233.

AUGUST 13, 1841.

Stat. at Large,

CHAP. VII. - An Act to repeal the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the Collection,
Safe-keeping, Transfer, and Disbursement of the Public Revenue," and to provide for the Vol. V. p. 439.
Punishment of Embezzlers of Public Money, and for other Purposes.

Proviso.

Be it enacted, &c. That the act entitled "An act to provide for the col-Act of 4th July, lection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue," approved on the fourth day of July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred ,, 1840, cb. 41, reand forty, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, always, That, pealed. for any offences which may have been committed against the provisions of the seventeenth section of the said act, the offenders may be prosecuted and punished according to those provisions; and that all bonds executed under the provisions of said act, and all civil rights and liabilities which the repeal. have arisen or accrued under said act, and the remedies therefor, shall remain and continue as if said act had not been repealed; anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

Bonds, &c. not affected by

with safe-keep

SEC. 2. That if any officer charged with the safe-keeping, transfer, or disbursement of public moneys, or connected with the Post-Office Depart- ficers charged ment, shall convert to his own use, in any way whatever, or shall use by ing, transfer, or Felony, for ofway of investment in any kind of property or merchandise, or shall loan, disbursement of with or without interest, any portion of the public moneys intrusted to &c. to use pubhim for safe-keeping, transfer, disbursement, or for any other purpose, lic moneys. public moneys, every such act shall be deemed and adjudged to be an embezzlement of so much of the said moneys as shall be thus taken, converted, invested, used, or loaned, which is hereby declared to be a felony; and the neglect or refusal to pay over on demand any public moneys in his hands, the presentation of a draft, order, or warrant drawn upon him, and signed or disburse such by the Secretary of the Treasury, or to transfer or disburse any such moneys, prima moneys promptly according to law, on the legal requirement of a superior of such use. officer, shall be prima facie evidence of such conversion to his own use of

upon

Neglect or refusal to pay

over, transfer,

facie evidence

&c.

Punishment

so much of the public moneys as may be in his hands. Any officer or agent of the United States, and all persons advising, or knowingly and for said offence, willingly participating in such embezzlement, upon being convicted thereof before any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction, shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay to the United States a fine equal to the amount of the money embezzled, and shall suffer imprisonment for a term not less than six months nor more than five years.

Act of June

excepting 13th

SEC. 3. That the act entitled "An act to regulate the deposits of the 23, 1836, ch. 115, public money," approved on the twenty-third day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, excepting the thirteenth and fourteenth sections thereof, be and the same hereby is repealed.

and 14th secs. repealed.

So much of act of 14th April, 1836, ch. 52, as prohibits the payment by the

U. S. of bank notes under cer

tain denomina

tions, repealed.

Stat. at Large, Vol. V. p. 463.

Drawbacks on certain sugars and rum to be reduced, how.

Laws and parts of laws incon

sistent with this act, repealed.

Stat. at Large, Vol. V. p. 468.

Attorney-Gen. to make the examination, and report to the President.

Title-papers to be furnished to the AttorneyGeneral.

Public money not to be expended on any site hereafter

purchased, until, &c.

SEC. 4. That so much of an act, passed the fourteenth of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled "An act making appropriations for the payment of the Revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six," as provides that no bank note of less denomination than ten dollars, and after the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, no bank note of less denomination than twenty dollars, shall be offered in payment in any case whatsoever, in which money is to be paid by the United States, or the PostOffice Department, be, and the same hereby is, repealed.

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CHAP. XXIV. - An Act relating to Duties and Drawbacks.

SEC. 3. That from and after the passage of this act, drawbacks payable on exported refined sugars, manufactured from foreign sugars, and on exported rum, distilled from foreign molasses, shall be reduced in proportion to the reduction which shall have been made by law (after the passage of the acts of Congress of the twenty-first of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and twenty-ninth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, allowing said drawbacks) in the duties on the imported sugars or molasses, out of which the same shall have been manufactured or distilled, and in no case shall the drawback exceed the amount of import duty paid on either of those articles.

SEC. 7. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

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[No. 6.] A Joint Resolution making it the Duty of the Attorney-General to examine into the Titles of the Lands or Sites for the Purpose of erecting thereon Armories and other Public Works and Buildings, and for other Purposes.

Resolved, &c. That it shall be the duty of the Attorney-General of the United States to examine into the titles of all the lands or sites which have been purchased by the United States, for the purpose of erecting thereon armories, arsenals, forts, fortifications, navy yards, custom-houses, lighthouses, or other public buildings of any kind whatever, and report his opinion as to the validity of the title in each case, to the President of the United States.

2. That it shall be the duty of all the officers of the United States having any of the title-papers to the property aforesaid in their possession, to furnish them forthwith to the Attorney-General, to aid him in the investigation aforesaid.

3. That no public money shall be expended upon any site or land hereafter to be purchased by the United States for the purposes aforesaid, until the written opinion of the Attorney-General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, and also the consent of the Legislature of the State in which the land or site may be shall be given to said purchaser.

District attor

neys to furnish

4. That it shall be the duty of the district attorneys of the United States, upon the application of the Attorney-General, to furnish any as- assistance. sistance or information in their power in relation to the titles of the public property aforesaid lying within their respective districts.

5. That it shall be the duty of the Secretaries of the Executive Depart- Secretaries of 'ments, upon the application of the Attorney-General, to procure any addi- the Executive Departments to tional evidence of title which he may deem necessary, and which may not procure addibe in the possession of the officers of government; the expense of pro- tional evidence. curing which to be paid out of the appropriations made for the contingencies of the Departments respectively.

6. That it shall be the duty of the Secretaries of the Executive Depart- To apply to the State legisments, respectively, under whose direction any lands for the purposes latures for jurisaforesaid may have been purchased, and over which the United States do diction over not possess jurisdiction, to apply to the legislatures of the States in which said lands, &c. the lands are situated, for a cession of jurisdiction, and in case of refusal, to report the same to Congress at the commencement of the next session thereafter.

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CHAP. XXXII. - An Act regulating Commercial Intercourse with the Port of Cayenne, in the Colony of French Guiana, and to remit certain Duties.

Stat. at Large, Vol. V. p. 489.

French vessels

than American vessels.

1828, ch. 49.

Be it enacted, &c. That the provisions of the act entitled "An act regulating the commercial intercourse with the islands of Martinique and coming directly from Cayenne, Guadaloupe," approved on the ninth of May, eighteen hundred and &c. to pay no twenty-eight, admitting French vessels coming from, and laden with higher duties articles, the growth and manufacture of either of the said islands, are hereby extended to the vessels of the same nation coming from the port of Cayenne, in the colony of French Guiana, so as to entitle said vessels coming directly from said port of Cayenne, and laden with articles the growth or manufacture of said colony, which are permitted to be exported therefrom in American vessels, to admission into the ports of the United States, on payment of no higher duties of tonnage, or on their cargoes, as aforesaid, than are imposed on American vessels, and on like cargoes therein imported: Provided, That if the President of the United States shall, at any time, receive satisfactory information that the privileges pend the operaallowed to American vessels and their cargoes in the said colony of tions of this act, French Guiana by the arretes of its Governor, bearing date the fifth of when. December, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and the twenty-eighth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and by the tariffs and regulations in force in the colony, have been revoked or annulled, he is hereby authorized, by proclamation, to suspend the operations of this act, and withhold all privileges allowed under it.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to refund, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amount of duty, inconsistent with the provisos of the first section of this act, which, since the arretes and the tariffs, and regulations referred to in the provisions to the first section of this act, have been in operation in said colony, as may have been levied in the ports of the United States upon any French vessels coming directly from the port of Cayenne, laden with such articles, the growth or manufacture of said colony, which were allowed to be exported therefrom in American vessels.

No. 237.- JUNE 4, 1842.

CHAP. XXXVIII. — An Act to authorize the Collector of the District of Fairfield to reside in either of the Towns of Fairfield or Bridgeport.

Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the act entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," approved March second, seventeen

President authorized to sus

Certain duties to be refunded.

Stat. at Large, Vol. V. p. 489.

So much of act ch. 22, as re2d March, 1799,

quires the collector to reside

at Fairfield, repealed, &c.

hundred and ninety-nine, as requires the collector for the district of Fairfield, in the State of Connecticut, to reside in the town of Fairfield, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and the said collector shall reside in said town of Fairfield, or in the town of Bridgeport, within said district.

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Stat. at Large, CHAP. LXVI. Vol. V. p. 496.

The pound sterling to be computed at $4.84.

Acts, &c. in

consistent herewith, repealed.

- An Act to regulate the Value to be affixed to the Pound Sterling by the Treasury Department.

Be it enacted, &c. That in all payments by or to the treasury, whether made here or in foreign countries, where it becomes necessary to compute the value of the pound sterling, it shall be deemed equal to four dollars and eighty-four cents, and the same rule shall be applied in appraising merchandise imported where the value is by the invoice in pounds sterling.

SEC. 2. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with these provisions, be and the same are hereby repealed.

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Stat. at Large, CHAP. CXX. An Act to constitute the Ports of Stonington, Mystic River, and PawVol. V. p. 499. catuck River, a Collection District.

Stonington a collection dis

trict and port of entry.

1842, ch. 177.

District of Stonington designated.

Office of surveyor abolished.

A collector to be appointed his salary and duties.

Be it enacted, &c. That the town of Stonington, in the county of New London, State of Connecticut, shall be a collection district, from and after the thirtieth day of June next; and that the port of Stonington, aforesaid, shall be, and hereby is, made a port of entry.

SEC. 2. That the district of Stonington shall comprehend all the waters, shores, bays, and harbors, from the west line of Mystic River, including the villages of Portersville and Noank, in the town of Groton, State of Connecticut, to the east line of Pawcatuck river, including the town of Westerly, State of Rhode Island, anything in any former law to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 3. That, from and after the thirtieth day of July present, the office of surveyor of the port of Stonington, aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby, abolished; and a collector for the aforesaid district shall be appointed, to reside at the port of Stonington, who, in addition to his other emoluments, shall be entitled to receive the salary now allowed by law to the surveyor, aforesaid, and no more; and said collector shall also perform the duties heretofore enjoined on the surveyor.

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Stat. at Large, CHAP. CXXVI. An Act to annex a Part of the Town of Tiverton, in the State of Vol. V. p. 504. Rhode Island, to the Collection District of Fall River in the State of Massachusetts.

The part of Tiverton annexed, described.

Be it enacted, &c. That all that part of the town of Tiverton, in the State of Rhode Island, which lies north of the south line of the farm of William Slade, and of the farm of the heirs of Boylston Brayton, to Wattupper Pond, and by said pond to the south line of the State of Massachusetts, and the waters and shores adjoining thereto, be, and the same is hereby, annexed to, and made a part of the collection district of Fall River in the State of Massachusetts.

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