CHAPTER XXX. AN ACT for extending the terms of credit on revenue bonds in certain cases, and for other purposes. Payment of duties on the importation of Coffee, &c, &c. suspend. B be delivered Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Old bonds to the persons entitled to the extension of cre- up, and new dit, allowed by the preceding section, shall, ones given. in order to enjoy its benefit, take up, or have cancelled, the bonds heretofore given for duties, on which the extension of credit is allowed, and give to the collector new bonds, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of said collector, for the sums of their former bonds respectively, payable whenever the act intituled "An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, shall no longer be in force which bonds shall be accepted by the collectors respectively, upon the terms following, that is to say; the goods for the duties whereon such bonds shall be accepted shall be deposited at the expense and risk of the importer or importers, parties to the said bonds, in one or more store-house, or store. houses, in the same manner as is now provid. ed for the deposit of teas, by the sixty second section of the act intituled "An act to regu. late the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," but no delivery of the said goods, or of part thereof, shall be made to the own. ers thereof, unless the duties on so much thereof, as may, on the application of the owners, be thus delivered, shall have been paid. And whenever the sum specified in any of the bonds taken by virtue of this section shall become due and remain unpaid more than forty five days, so much of the said deposited goods as may be necessary shall be sold by the collector at public sale, and the proceeds thereof, after deduct. ing the charges of safe keeping and sale thereof, shall be applied to the payment of such sum, rendering the overplus arising on such sale and the residue of the goods so de. posited, if any there be, to the person or per sons, by whom such a deposit shall have been made, or to his or their agent or lawful representative. But if the proceeds of such sale shall not be sufficient to pay the duties and charges, or if any of the goods shall, while deposited, be destroyed, stolen, lost, or damaged, the bonds taken by virtue of this section, for the payment of duties on such goods, shall be proceeded with, in all re spects, as other bonds taken by collectors for duties due to the United States. spect to goods Same regula tions with restopt by the embargo law, board vessels for re-expor it went into force, &c. &c. ́ and laden on tation when Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever any goods, wares or merchandise, which, being entitled to be exported with benefit of drawback, had, prior to the twenty-second day of December last, been actually laden on board a vessel, and inspected under the superintendence of a proper officer, in conformity with the provisions of the seventy sixth section of the act intituled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," have been detained under the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, so as to prevent the actual exportation of such goods, wares and merchandize, the payment of bonds given for duties on the importation of the same, may, to an amount equal to that of such duties, and no farther, be suspended during the continuance of the last mentioned act, in the same manner, and on the same terms and conditions, as is provided by the preceding section for bonds given for duties on certain specified articles: Provided, That Proviso. the owners of such goods, wares and mer. chandize, shall surrender any debentures which previously have been granted for the drawback of duties on the same. those entitled Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That What rius. the persons entitled to the extension of cre- be done by dit allowed by the next preceding section, to an extenmay, at their option, either deposit the goods, son of credit. wares and merchandise, in a store house or store-houses, or leave the same on board the vessel on which the same have been laden; the said goods, wares and merchandise, being in either case secured in the same man Proviso. Proviso. ner as is provided for goods deposited in J. B. VARNUM, Vice-President of the United States, and March 10, 1808. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER XXXI. AN ACT for procuring an additional number of arms; and for the purchase of saltpetre and sulphur. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That a Appropria sum of money not exceeding three hundred tion. thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of procuring by purchase, or causing to be manufactured within the United States, and under the direction of the President of the United States, an additional number of stands of arms to be deposited in safe and suitable places. And for the purchase of Appropri salt-petre and sulphur, a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives, GEO: CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States, and March 11, 1809. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. tion. CHAPTER XXXII. AN ACT for the relief of Edward Weld, Samuel Beg bee, and John Davidson. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is authorised and directed to pay out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise I |