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6622 A5

1814

District of Maryland, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this third day of June, in the thirty-eighth year of the Indepen-
dence of the United States of America, John Brice, of the said district hath
deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as
author, in the words and figures following, to wit:

Seal.

"A selection of all the Laws of the United States, now in force, relative to commercial subjects, with
marginal notes and references to the same, classed under separate heads; comprehending the following:-
The acts for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, including the rates of duties payable on
goods, wares and merchandize: Table of tonnage duty on the entrance of vessels, and of the fees of office:
Registering, recording, enrolling and licensing ships or vessels: Mediterranean passports: Quarantine and
health: Remission of fines, penalties and forfeitures: Fisheries: Naturalization: Restriction of trade
with the enemy: Letters of marque and reprisal: Salvage: Slave trade: Consuls and vice consuls. Sea-
men in the merchants' service: Sea letters: And British licenses: And for regulating foreign coins. To
which will be added, a list of all the laws on the above subjects, and of the restrictive system, which have
been repealed or become obsolete: Also, various Treasury instructions to the Collectors of the customs,
particularly those relating to the rates of duties: Also, directions for making out manifests to be produced
in the custom house on clearing out vessels for foreign_ports; together with an Index to the whole. By
John Brice, Deputy Collector of the Port of Baltimore."

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of
learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies
during the times therein mentioned," and also to the act entitled "an act supplementary to the act entitled
"an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors
and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof
to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints.

PHILIP MOORE,
Clerk of the District of Maryland.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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