Congress, the Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby respectively authorized to transmit, free of postage, the message of the President of the United States of the twelfth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and the documents accompanying the same, printed by order of the Senate and by order of the House of Representatives, and the report of the Committee of Foreign Relations on the same, printed by order of the House of Representatives, to any post office within the United States and the territories thereof to which they may direct, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, July 28, 1813.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXXV.—An Act laying a duty on imported salt; granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries.[1]
- ↑ Fisheries. The acts of Congress relating to ships and vessels and persons employed in the fisheries, are:
An act for registering and clearing vessels, regulating the coasting trade, and for other purposes, (obsolete,) September 1, 1789, chap. 11, sect. 22, 23, vol. i. 60, 61.
An act concerning certain fisheries of the United States, and for the regulation and government of the fishermen employed therein, (expired,) February 16, 1792 chap. 6 vol. i. 229.
An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries,
and for regulating the same, February 1793, chap. 8, vol. i. 305.
Acts respecting the bounty on the fisheries. An act imposing duties on tonnage, July 20, 1789 chap. 2, sect. 2-27. An set to regulate the collection of the duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships und vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States, (repealed,) July 31, 1789, chap. 5, sect. 33—46. An act for raising a further sum of money for the protection of the frontiers and for other purposes therein mentioned, (obsolete,) May 2, 1792, chap. 27, sect. 6, 7, vol. i. 260. An act laying an additional duty on salt imported into the United States, (repealed,) July 8, 1797, chap. 15, sect. 2, vol. i. 533. An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, March 2, 1799, chap. 22, sect. 83, vol. i. 692. An act repealing the acts laying duties on salt, and continuing in force for a further time, the first section of the act entitled “An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States, against the Barbary powers,” (expired,) March 3, 1807, chap. 30, sect. 2. An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries, July 29, 1813, chap. 35. An act to continue in force "An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries,” Feb. 9, 1816, chap. 14, An act concerning the navigation of the United States, March 1, 1817, chap. 31, sect. 3. An act concerning the bounty or allowance to fishing vessels in certain cases April 4, 1818, chap. 35. An act in addition to, and alteration of, an act entitled "An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries," March 3, 1819, chap. 88. Regulation of seamen engaged in fisheries. An act to continue in force "An act concerning certain fisheries in the United States, and for the regulation and government of fishermen employed therein," and for other purposes [therein mentioned], April 12, 1800, chap. 22. An act to authorize the licensing of vessels to be employed in the mackerel fishery, 24th May, 1828, chap. 119. An act to authorize surveyors, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to enroll andlicense ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade or fisheries, Feb. 11, 1830, chap. 8.
An act concerning vessels employed in the whale fishery, March 3, 1831, chap. 149. An act for the government of persons in certain fisheries, June 19, 1813, chap. 2. The fifth and sixth sections of the act of July 29, 1813, and the act of March 3, 1819, chap. 89, relating to the bounty on all such vessels or boats employed on the Bank and other cod fisheries, as shall be employed at sea for the term of four months, include within their terms all vessels engaged in the cod fisheries, without limitation or specification as to the length of their fares, or the nature of their fisheries. The Schooner Harriet, Boynton and others, claimants, 1 Story’s C. C. R. 251. Where a vessel was enrolled and licensed for the fisheries, and without an oath having been taken by all the owners to the ownership a prescribed by the statutes of 1813 and 1819, and fraud or deceit
