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tained, with this Amendment, enacted to be and remain in full Force 

 to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, until the Fifteenth Day of 

 April which will be in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven 

 hundred and eighty. 



777 No. 163. 1789, July SI: Extract from United States Statute, 



Cap. 5. 



CHAP. V. An Act to regulate the collection of the duties Imposed by law on 

 the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandises im- 

 ported into the United States. 



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SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That every master or other per- 

 son having or taking the charge or command of any ship or vessel, 

 bound to any port of the United States, from any foreign port or 

 place, shall deliver upon demand, to any officer or other person law- 

 fully authorized, who shall first come on board his ship or vessel, 

 two manifests, signed by the said master or person having command, 

 and specifying in words (and not in figures) a true account of the 

 loading which such ship or vessel had on board at the port from 

 which she last sailed, and at the time of her sailing, or at any time 

 since, the packages, marks and numbers, and noting thereon to what 

 port in the United States such ship or vessel is bound, and the name 

 or names of the person or persons to whom the goods are consigned, 

 or in cases where the goods are shipped to order, the names of the 

 shippers, noting the goods consigned to their order. One of which 

 manifests, such officer, or other person, shall sign, and return to the 

 master or other person having the charge of such ship or vessel, cer- 

 tifying thereon as nearly as may be, the time when the same was pro- 

 duced, and that a like manifest was delivered to him; and shall 

 transmit the other manifest to the collector of the district to which 

 such ship or vessel is bound. 



SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the master or other person, 

 having the charge or command of any ship or vessel (ships and ves- 

 sels of war excepted) coming into, or arriving in any of the ports 

 or districts of the United States, or in any of the creeks or harbours 

 thereof, shall, within forty-eight hours after such arrival, repair 

 to the office of the Collector of the district where such vessel shall 

 so arrive, and shall report to the said collector the place from whence 

 he last sailed, with the name and burthen of his ship or vessel, and 

 shall deliver to such collector two manifests, agreeably to the direc- 

 tions of this act, unless he shall before have delivered one manifest 

 to some officer, or other person lawfully authorised in manner as 

 herein before is required ; in which case he shall deliver the manifest 

 certified as aforesaid, together with such documents as are usually 

 furnished in the port from whence they came, and shall take and 

 subscribe an oath or affirmation, before the collector or other proper 

 officer, which oath or affirmation, he or they are authorized and 

 required to administer, and shall be in the words following, to wit : 

 " I, - , do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) 

 that this is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a just and true 

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