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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, that from and after the afore- 

 said thirtieth of September next, the owner, consignee, or agent, of 

 every vessel, owned wholly or in part by a subject or subjects of His 

 Britannic Majesty, which shall have been duly entered in any port 

 of the United States, and on board of which shall have been there 

 laden for exportation any article or articles, of the growth, produce, 

 or manufacture, of the United States, other than provisions and sea 

 stores necessary for the voyage, shall, before such vessel shall have 

 been cleared outward at the custom-house, give bond, in a sum double 

 the value of such articles, with one or more sureties, to the satisfac- 

 tion of the collector, that the articles so laden on board such vesssel 

 for exportation, shall be landed in some port or place other than a 

 port or place in a colony or territory of His Britannic Majesty, which 

 by the ordinary laws of navigation and trade, is closed against vessels 

 owned by citizens of the United States ; and any such vessel that shall 

 sail, or attempt to sail, from any port of the United States, without 

 having complied with the provision aforesaid, by giving bond as 

 aforesaid, shall, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with 

 the article or articles aforesaid, laden on board the same as aforesaid, 

 be forfeited to the United States: provided always, that nothing in 

 this Act contained shall be so deemed or construed, so as to violate 

 any provision of the convention to regulate commerce between the 

 territories of the United States and of His Britannic Majesty, signed 

 the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. 



SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, that the form of the bond afore- 

 said shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Department of the 

 Treasury; and the same shall and may be discharged, and not other- 

 wise, by producing, within one year after the date thereof, a like 

 certificate to that required by and under the regulations contained 

 in the eighty-first section of the Act " to regulate the collection of 

 duties on imports," passed the second day of March, seventeen hun- 

 dred and ninety-nine, that the articles of the growth, produce, and 

 manufacture, of the United States, laden as aforesaid, were unladen 

 and landed conformably to the provisions of this Act, or, in cases of 

 loss by sea, by capture, or other unavoidable accident, by the pro- 

 duction of such other proofs as the nature of the case will admit, 

 according to the provisions of the said eighty-first section of the Act 

 aforesaid. 



SEC. 4. 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, and may be mitigated or remitted, in the manner 

 and according to the provisions of the revenue laws of the United 

 States. 



Approved, April 18, 1818. 



No. 172. 1820, May 15: United States Statute, Cap. 



CHAP. CXXII. An Act supplementary to an act, entitled "An Act concerning 



navigation." 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 United States of America, in Congress assembled, that, from and 

 after the thirtieth day of September next, the ports of the United 

 States shall be and remain closed against every vessel owned wholly, 



