A Selection of All the Laws of the United States, Now in Force, Relative to Commercial Subjects

A list of all the laws on the above subjects and of the restrictive system, which have been repealed or
become obsolete: Also. various Treasury instructions to the Collectors of the customs, particularly
those relating to the rates of duties: Also, directions for making out manifests to be produced in the
custom-house, on clearing out vessels for foreign ports: Together with an INDEX to the whole.

BY JOHN BRICE,

DEPUTY COLLECTOR OF THE PORT OF BALTIMORE,

BALTIMORE:

PUBLISHED BY NEAL, WILLS & COLE,

BENJAMIN EDES, PRINTER.

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1814,

District of Maryland, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this third day of June, in the thirty-eighth year of the Indepen-
dence of the United States of America, John Brice, of the said district hath
deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as
author, in the words and figures following, to wit:

Seal.

"A selection of all the Laws of the United States, now in force, relative to commercial subjects, with
marginal notes and references to the same, classed under separate heads; comprehending the following:-
The acts for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, including the rates of duties payable on
goods, wares and merchandize: l'able of tonnage duty on the entrance of vessels, and of the fees of office:
Registering, recording, enrolling and licensing ships or vessels: Mediterranean passports: Quarantine and
health: Remission of fines, penalties and forfeitures: Fisheries: Naturalization: Restriction of trade
with the enemy: Letters of marque and reprisal: Salvage: Slave trade: Consuls and vice consuls. Sea-
men in the merchants' service: Sea letters: And British licenses: And for regulating foreign coins. To
which will be added, a list of all the laws on the above subjects, and of the restrictive system, which have
been repealed or become obsolete: Also, various Treasury instructions to the Collectors of the customs,
particularly those relating to the rates of duties: Also, directions for making out manifests to be produced
in the custom house on clearing out vessels for foreign ports; together with an Index to the whole. By
John Brice, Deputy Collector of the Port of Baltimore.""

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of
learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies
during the times therein mentioned," and also to the act entitled "an act supplementary to the act entitled
"an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors
and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof
to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints.

PHILIP MOORE,
Clerk of the District of Maryland.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

AN act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,

An act imposing duties on the tonnage of ships or vessels,

An act to establish the district of Kennebunk, and to annex Lyme to New London; and to alter the

district of Bermuda Hundred and City Point; and therein to amend the act, entituled, "An act to

regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,"

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205

207

An act to retain a further sum on drawbacks for the expenses incident to the allowance and pay-

ment thereof, and in lieu of stamp duties on debentures,

210

An act to establish the district of Bristol, and to annex towns of Kettery and Berwick to the district

An aet making the port of Beddeford and Pepperelborough, and the Port of New Bedford in Massa-

chusetts ports of entry for ships or vessels, arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, and from

places beyond the same,

211

of Portsmouth,

211

An act to allow the transportation of goods, wares, and merchandize, to and from Philadelphia, and

Baltimore, by the way of Appoquinimink and Sassafras,

213

An act to amend the act altering the district of Bermuda Hundred and City Point,

An aet directing the mode of estimating certain foreign coins.and currences, and of making out in-

214

voices in certain cases,

215

An act to repeal the internal taxes,

216

An act to amend an act, entituled, "An act to retain a further sum on drawbacks, for the expenses

incident to the allowance and payment thereof, and in lieu of stamp duties on debentures,"

217

An act to provide for the establishment of certain districts, and therein to amend an act, entitled,

"An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," and for other purposes.

An act to make Beaufort and Passamaquoddy, ports of entry and delivery; to make Easton and Ti-

verton ports of delivery; and to authorize the establishment of a new Collection district on Lake

Ontario,

218

224

An act for laying and collecting duties on imports and tonnage within the territories ceded to the

United States, by the treaty of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, be-

tween the United States and the French Republic; and for other purposes,

225

An acs to allow drawbacks of duties, on goods, wares, and merchandize transported by land, in the

cases therein mentioned,

235

An act further to protect the commerce, and seamen of the United States against the Barbary powers, 237

An act concerning drawbacks on goods, wares, and merchandize,

239

An act declaring Cambridge, in state of Massachusetts, to be a port of delivery,

An act for carrying into more complete effect the tenth article of the treaty of friendship, limits,

and navigation with Spain,

An act supplementary to the act, entitled, "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports

and tonnage,

An act to establish the districts of Gennesse, of Buffaloe Creek, and of Miami, and to alter the port

of entry of the district of Erie,

An act to amend an act, entitled, "An act for imposing more specific duties on the importation of

certain articles, and also for levying and collecting light-money on foreign ships or vessels," and

for other purposes,

An act to provide for light houses in Long Island Sound; and to declare Roxbury, in the state of

Massachusetts, to be a port of delivery,

An act declaring the town of Jersey, in the state of New Jersey, to be a port of deiivery; and for
erecting a light house on Wood Island, on Fletcher's Neck, in the state of Massachusetts,

An act to amend, in the cases therein mentioned, the "Act to regulate the collection of duties on

imports and tonnage,"

An act to annex certain shores and waters to the district of Mississippi, and to authorize the build-

ing a custom house at New Orleans,