Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. ⅩⅬ.—An Act relative to cessions of jurisdiction in places where lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers have been, or may hereafter be erected and fixed.
Cession of jurisdiction of places for lighthouses, &c. with reservation of execution of process sufficient.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That where cessions have been, or hereafter may be made, by any state, of the jurisdiction of places where lighthouses, beacons, buoys or public piers have been erected and fixed, or may, by law, be provided to be erected or fixed, with reservation, that process civil and criminal, issuing under the authority of such state, may be executed and served therein, such cessions shall be deemed sufficient, under the laws of the United States providing for the supporting or erecting of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers.
Such reservation to be implied, where not expressly made.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That where any state hath made, or shall make a cession of jurisdiction, for the purposes aforesaid, without reservation, all process civil and criminal, issuing under the authority of such state, or the United States, may be served and executed within the places, the jurisdiction of which has been so ceded, in the same manner, as if no such cession had been made.
Approved, March 2, 1795.
Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. ⅩⅬⅠ.—An Act relative to the passing of coasting vessels between Long Island and Rhode Island.
Privilege of coasting between R. Island and Long Island.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That coasting vessels going from Long Island in the state of New York to the state of Rhode Island, or from the state of Rhode Island to the said Long Island, shall have the same privileges as are allowed to vessels under the like circumstances going from a district in one state to a district in the same or an adjoining state.
Approved, March 2, 1795.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Repealed.]
Chap. ⅩⅬⅢ.—An Act to alter and amend the act intituled “An act laying certain duties upon Snuff and refined Sugar.”
Duty taken off snuff, and laid on snuff mills.
Repealed 1800, ch. 36.
1794, ch. 51.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the duty of eight cents per pound on snuff laid by the act of the last session, intituled “An act laying certain duties upon snuff and refined sugar,” shall cease on the last day of March, in the present year, and shall not thenceforth be collected: but in lieu thereof, there shall be levied and collected upon all mills employed in the manufacture of snuff within the United States, the following yearly rates and duties, to wit: For and upon each and every mortar contained in any mill worked by water, and for every pair of millstones employed in the manufacture of snuff, five hundred and sixty dollars: upon every pestle in any mill, other than mills worked by hand, one hundred and forty dollars: upon every pestle in any mill worked by hand, one hundred and twelve dollars: and upon every mill in which snuff is manufactured by stampers and grinders, two thousand two hundred and forty dollars per annum.
Ante, p. 199.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the duties aforesaid, shall be levied, collected and accounted for, by the same officers, as are provided by the act, intituled “An act repealing after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon distilled spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead, and also upon spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same;” subject to the superin-
