second day of March, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, that the articles of the growth, produce, and manufacture, of the United States, laden as aforesaid, were unladen and landed conformably to the provisions of this act, or, in cases of loss by sea, by capture, or other unavoidable accident, by the production of such other proofs as the nature of the case will admit, according to the provisions of the said eighty-first section of the act aforesaid.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all penalties and forfeitures incurred by force of this act, shall be sued for, recovered, distributed, and accounted for, and may be mitigated or remitted, in the manner and according to the provisions of the revenue laws of the United States.
Approved, April 18, 1818.
Statute I.
Chap. LXXI.—An Act fixing the time for the next meeting of Congress.
Congress to meet on the third Monday of November.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That after the adjournment of the present session, the next meeting of Congress shall be on the third Monday in November next.
Approved, April 18, 1818.
Statute I.
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Chap. LXXV.—An Act to suspend for a limited time, the sale or forfeiture of lands for failure in completing the payment thereon.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 55.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 74.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the operation of the sixth condition of the fifth section of the act, entitled “An act to amend the act, entitled ‘An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States north-west of the Ohio and above the mouth of Kentucky river,’” be, and the same is hereby, suspended until the thirty-first day of March next, in favour of the purchasers of public lands at any of the land offices of the United States: Provided, That the benefit of this act shall not be extended to any one purchaser for a greater quantity than six hundred and forty acres of land.
Approved, April 18, 1818.
Statute I.
Chap. LXXVI.—An Act to establish a port of entry and delivery at Cape Vincent, at the fork of lake Ontario, and the head of the river St. Lawrence.
The President may establish another port of entry, &c. on lake Ontario, at Cape Vincent—and appoint a collector.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to establish, when it shall appear to him to be proper, in addition to the ports of entry and delivery already established on lake Ontario, one other port of entry and delivery at the village of Cape Vincent, at the fork of lake Ontario, and the head of the river St. Lawrence, and to appoint a collector of the customs to reside and keep an office thereat.
Approved, April 18, 1818.
Statute I.
Chap. LXXIX.—An Act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.
