booses. be cleansed with chloride of lime, or some other equally efficient disinfecting agent, and also at such other times as said captain may deem necessary. SEC. 8. That the master and owner or owners of any such vessel so employed, which shall not be provided with the house or houses over the Penalty for depassage-ways, as prescribed in the third section of this chapter, or with ficiency in venventilators, as prescribed in the fourth section of this chapter, or with the tilators or camcambooses or cooking-ranges, with the houses over them, as prescribed in the fifth section of this chapter, shall severally forfeit and pay to the United States the sum of two hundred dollars for each and every violation of, or neglect to conform to, the provisions of each of said sections, and fifty dollars for each and every neglect or violation of any of the provisions of the seventh section of this chapter, to be recovered by suit in any circuit or district court of the United States within the jurisdiction of which the said vessel may arrive, or from which she may be about to depart, or at any place within the jurisdiction of such courts, wherever the owner or owners, or captain of such vessel may be found. passenger ves sels. SEC. 9. That the collector of the customs at any port of the United States, at which any vessel so employed shall arrive, or from which any Inspectors of such vessel shall be about to depart, shall appoint and direct one or more of the inspectors of the customs for such port, to examine such vessel, and report in writing to such collector, whether the requirements of law have been complied with in respect to such vessel; and if such report shall state such compliance; and shall be approved by such collector, it shall be deemed and held as prima facie evidence thereof. This act to ap ply to space for steerage passengers in steam SEC. 10. That the provisions, requisitions, penalties, and liens of this act, relating to the space in vessels appropriated to the use of passengers, are hereby extended and made applicable to all spaces appropriated to the use of steerage passengers in vessels propelled in whole or in part by ships. steam, and navigating from, to, and between the ports, and in manner as in this act named, and to such vessels and to the masters thereof; and so much of the act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes," approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, as conflicts with this act, is hereby repealed; and the space appropriated to the use of steerage passengers in vessels so as above propelled and navigated, is hereby subject to the supervision and inspection of the collector of the customs at any port of the United States at which any such vessel shall arrive, or from which she shall be about to depart; and the same shall be examined and reported in the same manner and by the same officers by the next preceding section directed to examine and report. Vessels bound to or from Pacif ports. 1864, ch. 249, § 2. SEC. 11. That the vessels bound from any port in the United States to any port or place in the Pacific Ocean, or on its tributaries, or from ic any such port or place to any port in the United States on the Atlantic or its tributaries, shall be subject to the foregoing provisions regulating the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels, except so much as relates to provisions and water; but the owners and masters of all such vessels shall in all cases furnish to each passenger the daily supply of water therein mentioned; and they shall furnish a sufficient supply of good and wholesome food, properly cooked; and in case they shall fail SO to do, or shall provide unwholesome or unsuitable provisions, they shall be subject to the penalty provided in the sixth section of this chapter, in case the passengers are put on short allowance of water or provisions. List of pas sengers to be de SEC. 12. That the captain or master of any ship or vessel arriving in the United States, or any of the Territories thereof, from any foreign place livered on arwhatever, at the same time that he delivers a manifest of the cargo, and rival. if there be no cargo, then at the time of making report or entry of the ship or vessel, pursuant to law, shall also deliver and report to the collector of the district in which such ship or vessel shall arrive, a list or manifest of all the passengers taken on board of the said ship or vessel at any foreign port or place; in which list or manifest it shall be the duty of the said master to designate particularly the age, sex, and occupation of the said passengers respectively, the part of the vessel occupied by each during the voyage, the country to which they severally belong, and that of which it is their intention to become inhabitants; and shall further set forth whether any and what number have died on the voyage; which list or manifest shall be sworn to by the said master, in the same manner as directed by law in relation to the manifest of the cargo; and the refusal or neglect of the master aforesaid to comply with the provisions of this section, or any part thereof, shall incur the same penalties, disabilities, and forfeitures as are provided for a refusal or neglect to report and deliver a manifest of the cargo aforesaid. SEC. 13. That each and every collector of the customs, to whom such manifest or list of passengers as aforesaid shall be delivered, shall quarteryearly return copies thereof to the Secretary of State of the United States, by whom statements of the same shall be laid before Congress at each and every session. SEC. 14. That in case there shall have occurred on board any ship or vessel arriving at any port or place within the United States or its Territories, any death or deaths among the passengers, (other than cabin passengers,) the master, or captain, or owner, or consignee of such ship or vessel, shall, within twenty-four hours after the time within which the report and list or manifest of passengers mentioned in section twelve of this act, is required to be delivered to the collector of the customs, pay to the said collector the sum of ten dollars for each and every passenger above the age of eight years, who shall have died on the voyage by natural disease; and the said collector shall pay the money thus received, at such times and in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury, by general rules, shall direct, to any board or commission appointed by and acting under the authority of the State within which the port where such ship or vessel arrived is situated, for the care and protection of sick, indigent, or destitute. emigrants, to be applied to the objects of their appointment; and if there be more than one board or commission who shall claim such payment, the Secretary of the Treasury, for the time being, shall determine which is entitled to receive the same, and his decision in the premises shall be final and without appeal: Provided, That the payment shall, in no case, be awarded or made to any board, or commission, or association, formed for the protection or advancement of any particular class of emigrants, or emigrants of any particular nation or creed; and if the master, captain, owner, or consignee of any ship or vessel, refuse or neglect to pay to the collector the sum and sums of money required, and within the time prescribed by this section, he or they shall severally forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars, in addition to such sum of ten dollars, for each and every passenger upon whose death the same has become payable, to be recovered by the United States, in any circuit or district court of the United States where such vessel may arrive, or such master, captain, owner, or consignee may reside; and when recovered, the said money shall be disposed of in the same manner as is directed with respect to the sum and sums required to be paid to the collector of customs. SEC. 15. That the amount of the several penalties imposed by the foregoing provisions regulating the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels, shall be liens on the vessel or vessels violating those provisions, and such vessel or vessels shall be libelled therefor in any circuit or district court of the United States, where such vessel or vessels shall arrive. SEC. 16. That all and every vessel or vessels which shall or may be employed by the American colonization society or the colonization this act. society of any State, to transport, and which shall actually transport, ties subject to from any port or ports of the United States to any colony or colonies on the west coast of Africa, colored emigrants, to reside there, shall be, and the same are hereby, subjected to the operation of the foregoing provisions, regulating the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels. SEC. 17. That the collector of the customs shall examine each emigrant Examination ship or vessel, on its arrival at his port, and ascertain and report to the of emigrant ships on arrival, and Secretary of the Treasury the time of sailing, the length of the voyage, report thereon the ventilation, the number of passengers, their space on board, their food, to Secretary of the native country of the emigrants, the number of deaths, the age and Treasury. sex of those who died during the voyage; together with his opinion of the cause of the mortality, if any, on board, and, if none, what precautionary measures, arrangements, or habits are supposed to have had any, and what agency in causing the exemption. SEC. 18. That this act shall take effect, with respect to vessels sailing from ports in the United States on the eastern side of the continent, within thirty days from the time of its approval; and with respect to vessels sailing from ports in the United States on the western side of the continent, and from ports in Europe, within sixty days from the time of its approval; and with respect to vessels sailing from ports in other parts of the world, within six months from the time of its approval. And it is hereby made the duty of the Secretary of State to give notice, in the ports of Europe, and elsewhere, of this act, in such manner as he shall deem proper. SEC. 19. That from and after the time that this act shall take effect with respect to any vessels, then, in respect to such vessels,* the act of second March, eighteen hundred and nineteen, entitled "An act regulating passenger ships and vessels," the act of twenty-second of February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled "An act to regulate the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels;" the act of second March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to regulate the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels,' and to determine the time when said act shall take effect;" the act of thirty-first January, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled "An act exempting vessels employed by the American colonization society in transporting colored emigrants from the United States to the coast of Africa from the provisions of the acts of the twenty-second February and second of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, regulating the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels;" the act of seventeenth May, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled "An act to provide for the ventilation of passenger vessels, and for other purposes; " and the act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An act to extend the provisions of all laws now in force relating to the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels, and the regulation thereof," are hereby repealed. But nothing in this act contained shall in any wise obstruct or prevent the prosecution, recovery, distribution, or remission of any fines, penalties, or forfeitures, which may have been incurred in respect to any vessels prior to the day this act goes into effect, in respect to such vessels, under the laws hereby repealed, for which purpose the said laws shall continue in force. But the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, and upon such conditions as he shall think proper, discontinue any such prosecutions, or remit or modify such penalties. When this act shall take effect. Notice to be given. Repeal of former acts of 1819, ch. 46. Vol. iii. p. 488. 1847, ch. 16. Vol, ix. p. 127. 1847, ch. 34. Vol. ix. p. 149. 1848, ch. 7. Vol. ix. p. 210. 1848, ch. 41. Vol. ix. p. 220. 1849, ch. 111. Vol. ix. p. 399. Penalties saved from such repeal. *Note. - Vessels running to and from "foreign contiguous territory of the U. S." are expressly exempted from most of the provisions of this act. The exemption is however modified by the act of 1864, chap. 249. Query,-whether the 2d, 4th, and 5th sections of the act of 1819, chap. 46, and all of the act of 1847, chap. 16, excepting the proviso to the first section, and the fourth section, are not still in force in respect to vessels so exempted. Stat. at Large, CHAP. XII. Vol. XI. p. 2. § 1 repealed. 1862, ch. 147. Peoria, Ill. made a port of delivery in that district. Surveyor. His duties and pay. 1831, ch. 87. No. 369. APRIL 5, 1856. An Act to constitute the Cities of Hannibal, Missouri, and Peoria, Illinois, Ports of Delivery. SEC. 2. That Peoria, in the State of Illinois, be and is hereby constituted a port of delivery within the collection district of New Orleans, and there shall be appointed a surveyor of the customs for such port, who shall be resident thereat. Said surveyor shall perform the duties and receive the salary and emoluments prescribed by the act of Congress approved on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, entitled "An act allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be secured and paid at those places." No. 370. - AUGUST 18, 1856. Stat. at Large, CHAP. CXXVII. — An Act to regulate the Diplomatic and Consular Systems of the Vol. XI. p. 52. United States. Pay of diplomatic and consular officers. Be it enacted, &c. That ambassadors, envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, ministers resident, commissioners, chargés d'affaires, and secretaries of legation, appointed to the countries hereinafter named in schedule A, shall be entitled to compensation for their services, respectively, at the rates per annum hereinafter specified; that is to say, ambassadors and envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, the full amounts specified therefor in said schedule A; ministers resident and commissioners, seventy-five per centum; chargés d'affaires, fifty per centum; and secretaries of legation, fifteen per centum, of the said amounts, Pay of secreta- respectively: Provided, That the compensation of the secretary of the ries to legations legation to China, acting as interpreter, shall be at the rate of five thousand to China and Turkey. dollars, and if not acting as such, at the rate of three thousand dollars, and that of the secretary of legation to Turkey, acting as dragoman, at the rate of three thousand dollars, and if not acting as such, at the rate of two thousand dollars, per annum. Sardinia added. 1860, ch. 135. Sub-officers of the legations at London and Par is, and to China and Turkey. and commercial agents. SCHEDULE A. Great Britain and France, each seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Russia, Spain, Austria, Prussia, Brazil, Mexico, and China, each twelve thousand dollars. All other countries, each ten thousand dollars. SEC. 2. That the President be, and is hereby authorized to appoint for the legations at London and Paris, respectively, an assistant secretary of legation, who shall be entitled to compensation for their services, respectively, at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum; for the legation to China, an interpreter, when the secretary of legation shall not be acting as such, who shall be entitled to compensation at the rate of five thousand dollars; and for the legation to Turkey, a dragoman, when the secretary of legation shall not be acting as such, who shall be entitled to compensation at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum. Pay of consuls, SEC. 3. That consuls-general, consuls, and commercial agents, appointed consuls-general, to the ports and places hereinafter specified in schedules B and C, shall be entitled to compensation for their services, respectively, at the rates per annum hereinafter specified in said schedules B and C; and if the President shall think proper to appoint a consul to any port or place named in the said schedules B and C for a commercial agent, instead of such commercial agent, or vice versa, and an appointment shall be made accordingly, the compensation for such consular officer shall be the same in any such case as that fixed for such port or place in the schedule embra cing the same; and if he shall think the public interests will be subserved by appointing to any such port or place a consul-general instead of a consul or commercial agent, and an appointment shall be made accordingly, the compensation for such consul-general shall be the same as that fixed for such port or place in the schedule embracing the same. SCHEDULE B. I. Consuls-General. British North America. Quebec, four thousand dollars. Egypt. - Alexandria, three thousand five hundred dollars. [Japan. - Simoda, five thousand dollars.] Cuba. Havana, six thousand dollars. Turkey.Constantinople, three thousand dollars. Hanseatic and Free Cities. - Frankfort-on-the-Main, three thousand dollars. II. Consuls. Mauri Great Britain. Liverpool and London, each, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Melbourne, four thousand dollars. Hong Kong, three thousand five hundred dollars. Glasgow, three thousand dollars. tius and Singapore, each two thousand five hundred dollars. Belfast, Cork, Dundee, Demarara, Halifax, Kingston, (Jamaica,) Leeds, Manchester, Nassau, (New Providence,) Southampton, and Turk's Island, each, two thousand dollars. Prince Edward's Island, one thousand dollars. France. Havre, six thousand dollars. Paris, five thousand dollars. Marseilles, two thousand five hundred dollars. Bordeaux, two thousand dollars. La Rochelle and Lyons, each, one thousand five hundred dollars. Russia. Moscow, Odessa, Revel, and St. Petersburg, each, two thousand dollars. Spain. Matanzas, Trinidad de Cuba, and Santiago de Cuba, each, two thousand five hundred dollars. San Juan, (Porto Rico,) two thousand dollars. Cadiz, Malaga, and Ponce, (Porto Rico,) each, one thousand five hundred dollars. Austria. - Trieste, two thousand dollars. Vienna, one thousand five hundred dollars. Prussia. Aix-la-Chapelle, two thousand five hundred dollars. China. - Canton and Shanghai, each, four thousand dollars. Fouchou, three thousand five hundred dollars. Amoy and Ningpo, each, three thousand dollars. Turkey. Beyrout and Smyrna, each, two thousand dollars. Jerusalem, one thousand five hundred dollars. Netherlands. Rotterdam, two thousand dollars. thousand dollars. Amsterdam, one Belgium. - Antwerp, two thousand five hundred dollars. lars. Funchal and Oporto, each, one thousand five hundred dol Denmark. St. Thomas, four thousand dollars. Elsineur, one thousand five hundred dollars. Sardinia.- Genoa, one thousand five hundred dollars. Switzerland. - Basle, two thousand dollars. Geneva, one thousand five hundred dollars. Sicilies.Messini, Naples, and Palermo, each, one thousand five hundred dollars. Saxony.- Leipsic, one thousand five hundred dollars. |