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dise on board within the same time, and under the same penalty, as 

 by the laws of the United States, are provided for ships or vessels of 

 the United States arriving from a foreign port. And if any ship or 

 vessel, licensed for carrying on the fisheries, shall be found within 

 three leagues of the coast, with goods, wares, or merchandise of for- 

 eign growth or manufacture, exceeding the value of five hundred dol- 

 lars, without having such permission, as is herein directed, such ship 

 or vessel, together with her goods, wares, or merchandise of foreign 

 growth or manufacture imported therein, shall be subject to seizure 

 and forfeiture. 



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Approved, February 18, 1793. 



No. 168. 1799, March 2: Extract from United States Statute, Cap. 22. 



CHAP. XXII. An Act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage. 

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SEC. 60. And be it further enacted, that if any ship or vessel from 

 any foreign port or place, compelled by distress of weather, or other 

 necessity, shall put into any port or place of the United States, not 

 being destined for the same, and if the master, or other person having 

 the charge or command of any such ship or vessel, together with the 

 mate or person next in command, shall, within twenty-four hours 

 after her arrival, make protest in the usual form upon oath or 

 affirmation, before a notary public, or other person duly authorized, 

 or before the collector of the district, where the said ship or vessel 

 shall so arrive, who is hereby empowered to administer the same, set- 

 ting forth the cause, or circumstance of such distress, or necessity, 

 which protest, if not made before the collector, shall be produced to 

 him, and to the naval officer (if any there be) and a copy thereof 

 lodged with him or them. And the master, or other person aforesaid, 

 shall also, within forty-eight hous after such arrival, make report in 

 writing to the said collector, of the said ship or vessel and her cargo, 

 as is directed hereby to be done in other cases. And if it shall be 

 made appear to the said collector, by the certificate of the wardens 

 of the port, or other officers usually charged with, and accustomed 

 to ascertain the condition of ships or vessels arriving in distress, 

 if any such there be, or by the certificate of any two reputable 

 merchants, to be named for that purpose by the said collector, if 

 no such wardens, or other officers duly qualified there be, that 

 there is a necessity for unlading the said ship or vessel, the said 

 collector and naval officers (where any) shall grant a permit for 

 that purpose, and shall appoint an inspector or inspectors to oversee 

 such unlading, who shall keep an account of the same, to be com- 

 pared with the report made by the master, or other person having the 

 charge or command of such ship or vessel: and all goods, wares, 

 and merchandise so unladen, shall be stored under the direction of the 

 said collector, who, upon request of the master or person having the 

 charge or comman<J of such ship or vessel, or of the owner or owners 

 thereof, shall, together with the naval officer, where there is one, and 

 alone where there is none, grant permission to dispose of such part of 

 the said cargo as may be of a perishable nature (if any there be) or 



