apparel, and furniture, shall be wholly forfeited, and may be seized and condemned in any court of the United States or territories thereof, having competent jurisdiction.
Property taken from a wreck to be brought to some port of entry, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all property, of every description whatsoever, which shall be taken from any wreck from the sea, or from any of the keys and shoals, within the jurisdiction of the United States, on the coast of Florida, shall be brought to some port of entry within the jurisdiction aforesaid.
Distribution of forfeitures.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13.
Act of Feb. 11, 1800, ch. 6.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all and every forfeiture or forfeitures, which shall be incurred by virtue of the provisions of this act, shall accrue one moiety to the informer or informers, and the other to the United States, and may be mitigated or remitted, in manner prescribed by the act, entitled “An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned,” passed the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, and made perpetual by an act passed eleventh February, one thousand eight hundred.
Approved, March 3, 1825.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Expired.]
Chap. CXI.—An Act to extend the time of issuing and locating military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army.
The time limited by the act of Feb. 24th, 1819, ch. 41, for issuing military land warrants, extended.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time limited by the second section of the act approved the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, for issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army, shall be extended till the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and the time for locating the unlocated warrants shall be extended till the first day of October thereafter.
Approved, March 3, 1825.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. CXII.—An Act to make Castine a port of entry for ships or vessels coming from beyond the Cape of Good Hope.
Castine, in the state of Maine, made a port of entry.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the first day of April next, Castine, in the state of Maine, shall be, and is hereby, made a port of entry for ships or vessels coming from beyond the Cape of Good Hope.
Approved, March 3, 1825.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. CXIII.—An Act to authorize the building of lighthouses and light vessels, and beacons, and monuments, therein mentioned; and for other purposes.
Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the building of lighthouses, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, empowered to provide by contract, for building lighthouses and light vessels, erecting beacons and monuments, and placing buoys, on the following sites or shoals, to wit:
A lighthouse on Moose Peak islands, &c.A lighthouse on a proper site on Moose Peak Islands, in the state of Maine; and a monument on a proper site on Stage island, in the same state.
At the mouth of Burlington harbour.A lighthouse on a proper site, at or near the mouth of Burlington harbour, in the state of Vermont.