Shreveport was made a port of delivery in New Orleans district by Act of March 1, 1872, and Potomac, Va. a port of delivery, with deputy collector, in the Alexandria district, by Act of April 7, 1871. 6 (TREASURY REGULATIONS, 1874, ARTS. 717 and 724.) "ART. 717. Merchandise may be shipped to the Dominion of Canada by authorized routes under combined entry for immediate transportation and exportation from Portland, Me., or New York, by way of the frontier ports of Island Pond or St. Albans, in the District of Vermont; Rouse's Point, in the District of Champlain; Ogdensburg, Suspension Bridge, Buffalo, or Pembina; from Detroit, Port Huron, Chicago, Milwaukee, or Duluth, by way of Pembina; from Vanceboro, in the District of Passamaquoddy, by way of Island Pond, and from New York, by water, by way of Albany and Buffalo, or by way of Whitehall and Rouse's Point." "ART. 724. Imported merchandise entered and bonded at a port of entry of the United States may be withdrawn from warehouse, without payment of duties, at any time within two years from the date of importation, for immediate transportation and exportation in bond to San Fernando, Paso del Norte, or Chihuahua, Mexico, by the following routes: "By water to Galveston, Texas, and thence inland, by way of Austin and San Antonio, to Presidio del Norte. "By water to Indianola or Lavaca, Texas, thence inland to San Antonio, and thence by way of Eagle Pass, Presidio del Norte, or San Elizario, to the destination in Mexico. "Like entry may be made for immediate transportation and exportation by water to Corpus Christi, Texas, and thence by way of Laredo or Roma, to Mexico." Oswego designated as a port for shipment of bonded goods in transit through U. S. to and from Canada. (S. S., 2248.) Also Newport, Vt., and Cape Vincent, N. Y. (S. S., 2275.) RECORDING THE CONVEYANCE OF VESSELS. JULY 29, 1850. (UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. IX, PAGE 440.) CHAP. XXVII.—An Act to provide for recording the Conveyances of Vessels, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. No bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation, or conveyance of any vessel, or part of any vessel of the United States, shall be valid against any person other than the grantor or mortgagor, his heirs and devisees, and persons having actual notice thereof; unless such bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation, or conveyance be recorded in the office of the collector of the customs where such vessel is registered or enrolled: Provided, That the lien by bottomry on any vessel created during her voyage, by a loan of money or materials, necessary to repair or enable such vessel to prosecute a voyage, shall not lose its priority, or be in any way affected by the provisions of this Act. SECTION 2. The collectors of the customs shall record all such bills of sale, mortgages, hypothecations, or conveyances, and, also, all certificates for discharging and cancelling any such conveyances, in a book or books to be kept for that purpose, in the order of their recep tion; noting in said book or books, and also on the bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation, or conveyance, the time when the same was received, and shall certify on the bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation, or conveyance, or certificate of discharge or cancellation, the number of the book and page where recorded; and shall receive, for so recording such instrument of conveyance, or certificate of discharge, fifty cents. SECTION 3 The collectors of the customs shall keep an index of such records, inserting alphabetically the names of the vendor or mortgagor, and of the vendee or mortgagee, and shall permit said index and books of records to be inspected during office hours, under such reasonable regulations as they may establish, and shall, when required, furnish to any person a certificate, setting forth the names of the owners of any vessel registered or enrolled, the parts or proportions owned by each (if inserted in the register or enrolment), and also the material facts of any existing bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation, or other incumbrance upon such vessel, recorded since the issuing of the last register or enrolment, viz, the date, amount of such incumbrance, and from and to whom or in whose favor made; the collector shall receive for each such certificate one dollar. SECTION 4. The collectors of the customs shall furnish certified copies of such records on the receipt of fifty cents for each bill of sale, mortgage, or other conveyance. SECTION 5. The owner, or agent of the owner of any vessel of the United States, applying to a collector of the customs for a register or enrolment of a vessel, shall, in addition to the oath now prescribed by law, set forth, in the oath of ownership, the part or proportion of such vessel belonging to each owner, and the same shall be inserted in the register of enrolment; and that all bills of sale of vessels registered or enrolled shall set forth the part of the vessel owned by each person selling, and the part conveyed to each person purchasing. SECTION 6. The twelfth clause or section of the act entitled "An Act in addition to the several Acts regulating the shipment and discharge of seamen, and the duties of consuls,” approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty, be so amended, as that all complaints in writing to the consuls or commercial agents as therein provided, that a vessel is unseaworthy, shall be signed by the first, or the second and third officers, and a majority of the crew, before the consul or commercial agent shall be authorized to notice such complaint, or proceed to appoint inspectors as therein provided. SECTION 7. Any person, not being an owner, who shall, on the high seas, wilfully, with intent to burn or destroy, set fire to any ship or other vessel, or otherwise attempt the destruction of such ship or other vessel, being the property of any citizen or citizens of the United States, or procure the same to be done, with the intent aforesaid, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall suffer imprisonment to hard labor for a term not exceeding ten years, nor less than three years, according to the aggravation of the offence. SECTION 8. This Act shall be in force from and after the first day of October next ensuing, 84 TREASURY CIRCULAR. RELATIVE TO GUANO ISLANDS. TREASURY CIRCULAR, RELATIVE TO THE GUANO ISLANDS APPERTAINING TO THE UNITED STATES. TO COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS: TREASURY DEPARTMENT, February 12, 1869. You will find hereto annexed a corrected list of the Guano Islands, bonded under the Act of August 18, 1856, as appears by the bonds and papers, transmitted from the Department of State, now on file in the office of the First Comptroller of the Treasury. The several islands named and described in said list having been duly bonded, and considered by the President of the United States "as appertaining to the United States," in manner and form prescribed by said Act, and, as a consequence thereof, brought under the laws regulating the coasting trade, your attention is directed to the same with a view to the proper enforcement of these laws regulating intercourse with said islands. By the first proviso of the second section of the above-named Act [11 Stat., p. 119,] it is provided : "That no guano shall be taken from said islands, rock, or key, except for the use of citizens of the United States, or of any person resident therein." [For partial suspension of this prohibition, see second section of the Act of July 28, 1866.] It is further provided by the aforesaid second section, that The introduction of guano from said islands, rocks, or keys, shall be regulated as the coasting trade between the different parts of the United States, and the same laws shall govern the vessels concerned therein." And, as the laws of the United States forbid foreign vessels from engaging in the coasting trade, and as commercial intercourse with these islands thus form a part of said trade, you are hereby requested to use all due vigilance to prevent the infraction of any law or regulation upon that subject. H. MCCULLOCH, Secretary of the Treasury. GUANO ISLANDS PERTAINING TO THE UNITED STATES AND BONDED UNDER ACT OF AUGUST 18, 1856. |