jurisdiction to the county courts aforesaid, over any civil cause, which may arise in any of those revenue districts, for the collection of duties payable to the United States; or of bonds or securities given for the security and payment of duties to the United States.
Criminal jurisdiction in certain cases conferred upon the courts.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the county courts aforesaid, or the first judge of each of said courts, shall be, and hereby are further authorized to exercise all and every power in the cases of a criminal nature, cognizable before them by virtue of the first section of this act, for the purpose of obtaining a mitigation or remission of any fine, penalty, or forfeiture, which may be exercised by the judges of the district courts in cases depending before them by virtue of the law of the United States,Powers given by the act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13, for the remission of forfeitures, to the judges of state courts. passed on the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, intituled “An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned.” And in the exercise of the authority, by this section given to said county courts, or to the first judges thereof, they shall be governed in every respect by the regulations, restrictions and provisoes of the law of the United States, passed on the third of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, aforesaid; with this difference only, that instead of notifying the district attornies, respectively, said county courts, or the first judges thereof, as the case may be, shall, before exercising said authorities, cause reasonable notice to be given to the attorney who may have been appointed and sworn or affirmed to prosecute for the United States, in such court, that he may have an opportunity of showing cause against the mitigation or remission of such fine, penalty, or forfeiture.
Continuance of this act.
Continued 1808, ch. 51.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall remain in force during the term of one year, from its passage, and from thence to the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, and no longer.[1]
Approved, March 8, 1806.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XV.—An Act declaring the town of Jersey, in the state of New Jersey, to be a port of delivery; and for erecting a Lighthouse on Wood Island, or Fletcher’s neck, in the state of Massachusetts.”
Jersey, in the state of New Jersey, made a port of delivery.
1799, ch. 22, sec. 7.
Surveyor to reside at the said place.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the town, or landing place of Jersey, in the state of New Jersey, shall be a port of delivery, to be annexed to the district of Perth Amboy, and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports of delivery in the United States. And there shall be appointed a surveyor to reside at the said port of delivery, who shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the other emoluments allowed by law, a salary of one hundred dollars, annually.
A lighthouse to be erected on Wood Island, or on Fletcher’s neck.
Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to cause a good and sufficient lighthouse to be erected on Wood Island, or on Fletcher’s neck, in the district of Maine, (selecting either place, as the President of the United States may deem most eligible) and to appoint a keeper, and otherwise provide for such lighthouse, at the expense of the United States: Provided, that sufficient land for the accommodation of such lighthouse can be obtained at a reasonable price, and the legislature of Massachusetts shall cede the jurisdiction over the same to the United States. And the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the erection of said lighthouse, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
- ↑ By an act passed April 21, 1808, chap. 51, the provisions of this law are made perpetual and extended to the ports and harbors in Ohio.
