tofore established for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission of forfeitures to the United States by the several revenue laws.

SEC. 4. No goods shall be imported, under penalty of forfeiture thereof, from one port of the United States to another port of the United States, in a vessel belonging wholly or in part to a subject of any foreign power; but this clause shall not be construed to prohibit the sailing of any foreign vessel from one to another port of the United States, provided no goods, wares, or merchandise, other than those imported in such vessel from some foreign port, and which shall not have been unladen, shall be carried from one port or place to another, in the United States.

[Act of 18th April, 1818.]

SEC. 1. From and after the thirtieth of September next, the ports of the United States shall be and remain closed against every vessel owned wholly or in part, by a subject or subjects of his Britannic majesty, coming or arriving from any port or place in a colony or territory of his Britannic majesty, that is or shall be, by the ordinary laws of navigation and trade, closed against vessels owned by citizens of the United States; and such vessel, that in the course of the voyage, shall have touched at, or cleared out from any port or place in a colony or territory of Great Britain, which shall or may be, by the ordinary laws of navigation and trade aforesaid, open to vessels owned by citizens of the United States, shall, nevertheless, be deemed to have come from the port or place in the colony or territory of Great Britain closed as aforesaid, against vessels owned by citizens of the United States, from which such vessel cleared out and sailed before touching at, and clearing out from an intermediate and open port or place as aforesaid; and every such vessel, so excluded from the ports of the United States, that shall enter or attempt to enter the same, in violation of this act, shall, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with the cargo on board such vessel, be forfeited to the United States.

SEC. 2. From and after the aforesaid thirtieth of September next, the owner, consignee, or agent, of every vessel owned wholly or in part, by a subject or subjects of his Britannic majesty, which shall have been duly entered in any port of the United States, and on board of which shall have been there laden for exportation any article or articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, other than provisions and sea stores necessary for the voyage, shall, before such vessel shall have been cleared outward at the custom-house, give bond in a sum double the value of such articles, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the collector, that the article or articles so laden on board such vessel for exportation, shall be landed in some port or place other than a port or place in a colony or territory of his Britannic majesty, which, by the ordinary laws of naviga. tion and trade, is closed against vessels owned by citizens of the United

States; and any such vessel that shall sail, or attempt to sail from any port of the United States, without having complied with the provision aforesaid, by giving bond as aforesaid, shall, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with the article or articles aforesaid, laden on board the same as aforesaid, be forfeited to the United States. Provided, always, That nothing in this act contained shall be so deemed, or construed so as to violate any provision of the convention to regulate commerce between the territories of the United States and his Britannic majesty, signed the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

SEC. 3. The form of the bond aforesaid, shall be prescribed by the secretary of the department of the treasury, and the same shall and may be discharged, and not otherwise, by producing, within one year after the date thereof, a like certificate, to that required by, and under the regulations contained in the eighty-first section of the act," to regulate the collection of duties on imports," passed the second day of March, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, that the articles of the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, laden as aforesaid, were unladen and landed conformably to the provisions of this act, or, in cases of loss by sea, by capture, or other unavoidable accident, by the production of such other proofs as the nature of the case will admit, according to the provisions of the said eighty-first section of the act aforesaid.

SEC. 4. All penalties and forfeitures incurred by force of this act, shall be sued for, recovered, distributed, and accounted for; and may be mitigated or remitted, in the manner, and according to the provisions of the revenue laws of the United States.

No. 9.-An act supplementary to an act, entitled "an act concerning

navigation."

Act of 15th May, 1820.

SEC. 1. From and after the thirtieth day of September next, the ports of the United States shall be and remain closed against every vessel owned wholly, or in part, by a subject or subjects of his Britannic majesty, coming or arriving by sea, from any port or place in the province of Lower Canada, or coming or arriving from any port or place in the province of New Brunswick, not included within the act to which this act is supplementary. And every such vessel, so excluded from the ports of the United States, that shall enter, or attempt to enter, the same, in violation of this act, shall, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with the cargo on board such vessel, be forfeited to the United States.

SEC. 2. From and after the thirtieth day of September next, the owner, consignee, or agent, of every vessel owned wholly or in part by a subject or subjects of his Britannic majesty, which shall have been duly entered in

any port of the United States, and on board of which shall have been there laden, for exportation, any article or articles of the growth, produce, cr manufacture, of the United States, other than provisions and sea stores necessary for the voyage, shall, before such vessel shall have been cleared outward at the custom-house, give bond, in a sum double the value of such article or articles, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the collector, that the article or articles so laden on board such vessel, for exportation, shall be landed in some port or place in any province, island, colony, territory, or possession, belonging to his Britannic majesty, that is mentioned or described in this act, or in the act to which this act is supplementary. And every such vessel that shall sail, or attempt to sail, from any port of the United States, without having complied with the provisions aforesaid, by giving bond as aforesaid, shall, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with the article or articles aforesaid, laden on board the same as aforesaid, be forfeited to the United States. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed so as to violate any provision of the convention to regulate commerce between the territories of the United States and his Britannic majesty, signed the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

SEC. 3. From and after the thirtieth day of September next, no goods shall be imported into the United States of America from the province of Nova Scotia, the province of New-Brunswick, the islands of Cape Breton, St. Johns, Newfoundland, or their respective dependencies, from the Bermuda Islands, the Bahama Islands, the islands called Caicos, or either or any of the aforesaid possessions, islands, or places, or from any other province, possession, plantation, island, or place, under the dominion of Great Britain in the West Indies, or on the continent of America, south of the southern boundaries of the United States, except only such goods, wares, and merchandise, as are truly and wholly of the growth, produce, or manufacture, of the province, colony, plantation, island, possession, or place, aforesaid, where the same shall be laden, and from whence such goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be directly imported into the United States; and all goods imported, or attempted to be imported into the United States of America, contrary to the provisions of this act, together with the vessel on board of which the same shall be laden, her tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States.

SEC. 4. The form of the bond aforesaid shall be prescribed, and the same shall be discharged, and all penalties and forfeitures, incurred under this act, shall be sued for, recovered, distributed, and accounted for, and the same may be mitigated, or remitted, in the manner, and according to the provisions, of the act to which this act is supplementary.

No. 10.-To regulate the Intercourse between the United States and certain British Colonial Ports.

[Act of 1st March, 1823.]

SEC. 1. From and after the third day of March next, the first, second, and third sections of the "act concerning navigation, passed April eighteenth, 1818," and the "act supplementary to an act concerning navigation," approved on 15th May, 1820, are hereby suspended for, and during, the continuance of this act, so far as any of the restrictions or prohibitions therein contained, limit or interdict the intercourse of navigation or commerce between the ports of the United States and the British Colonial ports hereinafter mentioned, to wit: Kingston, Savannah Le Mar, Montego Bay, St. Lucia, Antonia, St. Ann, Falmouth, Maria, Morant Bay, and Annatto Bay, all in Jamaica. -St. George in Grenada, Roseau in Diminico; St. Johns in Antigua; San Josef in Trinidad; Scarborough in Tobago; Road Harbour in Tortola; Nassau in New Providence; Pittstown in Crooked Island; Kingston in St. Vincent; Port St. George and Port Kingston in Bermuda; any port where there is a custom-house in Bahamas; Bridgetown in Barbadoes; St. Johns and St. Andrews, in New Brunswick; Halifax, in Nova Scotia; Quebec, in Canada; St. Johns, in Newfoundland; Georgetown, in Demerara; New Amsterdam, in Berbice; Castries, in St. Lucia; Bassaterre, in St. Kitts; Charleston, in Nevis; Plymouth in Montserrat.

SEC. 2. From and after said third of March next, the ports of the United States shall be open to any British vessel coming directly from any of the British colonial ports above enumerated, and it shall be lawful to import in said vessels being navigated by a master and three-fourths at least, of the mariners British subjects, any articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of any of said British colonies, the importation of the like articles to which from elsewhere, is not nor shall not be prohibited by law, and which may be exported from any of the said enumerated British ports, to the United States on equal terms, in vessels belonging to the said states.

SEC. 3. That, on proof being given to the president of the United States, satisfactory to him, that upon the vessels of the United States admitted into the above enumerated British colonial ports, and upon any goods, imported therein, in the said vessels, no other or higher duties of tonnage or impost, and no other charges of any kind, are levied or exacted than upon British vessels, or upon the like goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the said colonial ports from elsewhere, it shall and may be lawful for the president of the United States to issue his proclamation, declaring that no other or higher duty of impost or tonnage, and no other or higher duty or charge of any kind, upon any goods, wares, or merchandise, imported from the above enumerated British colonial ports, in British vessels, shall be levied or exacted in any of the ports of the United States, (excepting the ports in the territory of Florida,) than upon the vessels of the United States, and

upon the like goods, wares, or merchandise, imported into the ports of the United States in the same: Provided always, That until such proofs shall be given, British vessels coming from the said British colonial ports, and the goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in the same into the United States, shall continue to pay the foreign tonnage duty, and the additional duties upon goods, imported in foreign vessels, prescribed by the "Act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," approved the twenty-seventh of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.

SEC. 4. That no articles whatsoever, specie and bullion excepted, other than articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture, of the British colonies to which the said enumerated ports belong, shall be imported into the United States, in British vessels, coming from any of the said enumerated ports; and that no articles whatsoever, being of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the British colonies, to which the said enumerated ports belong, shall be imported into the United States, in any British vessel, other than a vessel coming directly from one of the said enumerated ports, on pain of forfeiting all such articles, together with the ship or vessel in which the same shall have been imported, and her guns, tackle, apparel, and furniture.

SEC. 5. That it shall be lawful to export from the United States, directly to any of the above enumerated British colonial ports, in any vessel of the United States, or in any British vessel, navigated as by the second section of this act is prescribed, and having come directly from any of the above enumerated British colonial ports, any article of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, or any other article legally imported therein, the exportation of which, elsewhere, shall not be prohibited by law: Provided, That when exported in any such British vessel, before the shipment of any such articles, security, by bond, shall be given to the United States, in a penalty equal to half the value of the said articles; such bond to be taken of the owner, consignee, or agent, by the collector of the port at which the said British vessel shall have entered, for the due landing of the said articles, at the port or ports, being of the British colonial ports herein above enumerated, for which the said vessel shall clear out, and for producing a certificate thereof, within twelve months from the date of said bond, under the hand and seal of the consul or commercial agent of the United States, resident at the port where the said articles shall have been landed; or if there shall be no consul or commercial agent of the United States residing there, such certificate to be under the hand and seal of the chief officer of the customs at such port, or under the hand and seal of two known and reputable merchants residing at such port; but such bond may be discharged, by proof, on oath, by credible persons, that the said articles And it shall not be lawful were taken by enemies, or perished in the seas. to export, from the United States, any article whatsoever, to any of the above enumerated British colonial ports, in any British vessel, ther than