Persons receiving, &c. goods illegally imported and liable to seizure, to forfeit double the amount.shall receive, conceal, or buy, any goods, wares, or merchandise, knowing them to have been illegally imported into the United States, and liable to seizure by virtue of any act in relation to the revenue, such person or persons shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a sum double the amount or value of the goods, wares, or merchandise, so received, concealed, or purchased.
Persons forcibly resisting, &c. an officer of the customs, to be fined.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall forcibly resist, prevent, or impede, any officer of the customs or their deputies, or any person assisting them in the execution of their duty, such person, so offending, shall, for every such offence, be fined a sum not exceeding four hundred dollars.
Provisions of the 46th section of the act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 46, extended.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the forty-sixth section of the act, entitled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” passed the second day of March, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, be, and they are hereby, extended to the case of goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States from an adjacent territory.
Penalties to be sued for, &c.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 89.Sec. 5. 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, in the manner prescribed by an act, entitled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” passed on the second day of March, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.
Approved, March 3, 1823.
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Chap. LIX.—An Act supplementary to the acts to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war.
Act of March 11, 1818, ch. 19.
Secretary of War authorized to restore to the list such pensioners as have or shall be struck off by the act of May 1, 1820, ch. 53, upon certain conditions.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to restore to the list of pensioners the name of any person who may have been, or hereafter shall be stricken therefrom, in pursuance of the act of Congress, passed the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled “An act in addition to an act, entitled ‘An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,’” passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, if such person, so stricken from the list of pensioners, has heretofore furnished, or hereafter shall furnish, evidence, in pursuance of the provisions of said act, to satisfy the Secretary of War that he is in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country, and that he has not disposed of or transferred his property, or any portion thereof, with a view to obtain a pension.
