United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 58
Chap. LVIII.—An Act to amend an act, entitled “And [An] act further to regulate the entry of merchandise imported into the United States from any adjacent territory.”
Penalty of the act of March 2, 1821, ch. 14, for regulating the entry of merchandise from any foreign territory, altered.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passage of this act, every master or other person having charge of a vessel, boat, canoe, or raft, or the conductor or driver of any carriage, or sleigh, or other person bringing merchandise, from any foreign territory adjacent to the United States, who shall neglect or refuse to deliver a manifest, as is required in and by the act, entitled “An act further to regulate the entry of merchandise imported into the United States from any adjacent territory,” passed the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, shall be subject to pay, instead of the penalty of four hundred dollars imposed by the first section of said act, four times the value of the merchandise so imported.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons 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.