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(ACT of February 9th, 1816.)

to be ascertained when dried and cured fit for exportation, and according to the weight thereof as the same shall weigh at the time of delivery when actually sold; which account of the weight, with the original adjustment and settlement of the fare or fares among the owners and fishermen, together with a written account of the length, breadth, and depth, of said boat, or vessel, and the time she has actually been employed in the fishery in the preceding season, shall, in all cases, be produced and sworn or affirmed to before the said collector of the district, in order to entitle the owner, his agent, or lawful representative, to receive the allowances aforesaid. And if at any time within one year after payment of such allowance, it shall appear that any fraud or deceit has been practised in obtaining the same, the boat or vessel upon which such allowance shall have been paid, if found within the district aforesaid, shall be forfeited, otherwise the owner or owners, having practised such fraud or deceit, shall forfeit and pay one hundred dollars, to be sued for, recovered, and distributed, in the same manner as forfeitures and penalties are to be sued for, recovered, and distributed, for any breach of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." [Infra, 13, 14.]

8. SEC. VII. The owner or owners of every fishing vessel of twenty tons and upwards, his or their agent or lawful representative, shall, previous to receiving the allowance made by this act, produce to the collector who is authorised to pay the same, the original agreement or agreements which may have been made with the fishermen employed on board such vessel, as is hereinbefore required, and also a certificate, to be by him or them subscribed, therein mentioning the particular days on which such vessel sailed and returned on the several voyages or fares she may have made in the preceding fishing season, to the truth of which he or they shall swear or affirm, before the collector aforesaid.

9. SEC. VIII. No ship or vessel of twenty tons or upwards, employed as aforesaid, shall be entitled to the allowance granted by this act, unless the skipper or master thereof shall, before he proceeds on any fishing voyage, make an agreement in writing, or in print, with every fisherman employed therein, according to the provisions of the act, entitled "An act for the government of persons in certain fisheries."

10. SEC. IX. Any person who shall make any false declaration, in any oath or affirmation required by this act, being duly convicted thereof in any court of the United States having jurisdiction of such offence, shall be deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury, and shall be punished accordingly.

[SEC. x, Limits the act to the 17th February, 1816. Infra, 11.]

ACT of February 9th, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 8.

11. The act, entitled "an act laying a duty on imported salt,

(ACT of March 3d, 1819.)

granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries," passed on the twentyninth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall be, and the same is hereby continued in force, any thing in the said act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

ACT of April 4th, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 53.

12. Where any fishing vessel of the United States has been, since the eighteenth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, prevented, by illegal capture or seizure, under authority, or pretence of authority, from any foreign government, from fishing at sea, for any part of the term of four months required by law to be employed by such vessel in fishing, in order to entitle the owner of such vessel to the bounty or allowance prescribed by law, the time of the unlawful detention of such vessel shall be computed as a part of the said four months, and such bounty or allowance shall be paid accordingly: Provided, That such vessel has, in all other respects, complied with the requisites of the laws now in force.

ACT of March 3d, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 86.

An act in addition to, and alteration of, an act, entitled "An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported," &c.

13. SEC. I. From and after the passing of this act, there shall be paid, on the last day of December, annually, to the owner, of every fishing boat or vessel, or his agent, by the collector of the district where such boat or vessel may belong, that shall be qualified, agreeably to law, for carrying on the Bank and other Cod fisheries, and that shall actually have been employed therein, at sea, for the term of four months, at least, of the fishing season next preceding, which season is accounted to be from the last day of February to the last day of November in every year, for each and every ton of such boats or vessels, burden according to her admeasurement as licensed or enrolled, if of more than five tons, and not exceeding thirty tons, three dollars and fifty cents; if above thirty tons, four dollars; and if above thirty tons, and having had a crew of not less than ten persons, and having been actually employed in the cod fishery, at sea, for the term of three and one half months, at the least, but less than four months, of the season aforesaid, three dollars and fifty cents: Provided, That the allowance aforesaid, on any one vessel, for one season, shall not exceed three hundred and sixty dollars.

14. SEC. II. Such parts of the fifth and sixth sections of the act, hereby amended as are contrary to the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

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FLAGS.

Flags captured to be preserved,

1 | Flag of the United States prescribed,

ACT of April 18th, 1814. 4 Bioren, 700.

1. SEC. I. The secretaries of the war and navy departments are hereby directed to cause to be collected and transmitted to them, at the seat of the government of the United States, all such flags, standards, and colors, as shall have been, or may hereafter be, taken by the army and navy of the United States, from their enemies.

SEC. II. All the flags, standards, and colors, of the description aforesaid, which are now in the possession of the departments aforesaid, and such as may be hereafter transmitted to them, shall be, with all convenient despatch, delivered to the president of the United States, for the purpose of being, under his direction, preserved and displayed in such public place as he shall deem proper.

ACT of April 4th, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 52.

2. SEC. 1. From and after the fourth day of July next, the flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternately red and white: the union shall be twenty stars, white in a blue field.

SEC. II. On the admission of every new state into the union, one star shall be added to the Union of the flag; and such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July, then next succeeding such admission.

President to take possession,
Government and revenue,

FLORIDA.

1 | Appropriation,

Act when to take effect,

ACT of March 3d, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 90.

An act to authorise the president of the United States, to take possession of East and West Florida, &c.

1. SEC. 1. The president of the United States is hereby authorised, to take possession of, and occupy the territories of East and West Florida, and the appendages and appurtenances thereof; and to remove and transport the officers and soldiers of the king of Spain being there, to the Havanna, agreeably to the stipulation

(ACT of February 12th, 1793.)

of a treaty between the United States and Spain, executed at Washington, on the 22d day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, providing for the session of said territories to the United States, and he may for these purposes, and in order to maintain in said territories, the authority of the United States, employ any part of the army and navy of the United States, and the militia of any state or territory which he may deem necessary.

2. SEC. 11. Until the end of the first session of the next congress, unless provision for the temporary government of said territories be sooner made by congress, all the military, civil, and judicial powers exercised by the officers of the existing government of the same territories, shall be vested in such person and persons, and shall be exercised in such manner as the president of the United States shall direct, for the maintaining the inhabitants of said territories in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion; and the laws of the United States, relative to the collection of revenue, and the importation of persons of color, shall be extended to the said territories; and the president of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorised, within the term aforesaid, to establish such districts, for the collection of the revenue, and, during the recess of congress, to appoint such officers, whose commissions shall expire at the end of the next session of congress, to enforce the said laws, as to him shall seem expedient,

3. SEC. III. The sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purpose of carrying this act into effect, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be applied under the direction of the president of the United States.

4. SEC. IV. This act shall take effect, and be in force, whenever the aforesaid treaty, providing for the cession of said territories to the United States, shall have been ratified by the king of Spain, and the ratifications exchanged, and the king of Spain shall be ready to surrender said territory to the United States, according to the provisions of said treaty.

Persons charged with crimes,

FUGITIVES.

1, 2 Persons held to labour,

3, 4

ACT of February 12th, 1793. 2 Bioren, 331.

An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters.

1. SEC. 1. Whenever the executive authority of any state in the union, or of either of the territories northwest or south of the river

(ACT of February 12th, 1793.)

Ohio, shall demand any person as a fugitive from justice, of the executive authority of any such state or territory to which such person shall have fled, and shall, moreover, produce the copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made, before a magistrate of any state or territory as aforesaid, charging the person so demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime, certified as authentic by the governor or chief magistrate of the state or territory from whence the person so charged fled, it shall be the duty of the executive authority of the state or territory to which such person shall have fled, to cause him or her to be arrested and secured, and notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear: But if no such agent shall appear within six months from the time of the arrest, the prisoner may be discharged. And all costs or expenses, incurred in the apprehending, securing, and transmitting, such fugitive to the state or territory making such demand, shall be paid by such state or territory.

2. SEC. II. Any agent, appointed as aforesaid, who shall receive the fugitive into his custody, shall be empowered to transport him or her to the state or territory from which he or she shall have fled. And if any person or person shall, by force, set at liberty, or rescue the fugitive from such agent while transporting, as aforesaid, the person or persons so offending shall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding one year.

3. SEC. III. When a person held to labor in any of the United States, or in either of the territories on the northwest or south of the river Ohio, under the laws thereof, shall escape into any other of the said states or territory, the person to whom such labor or service may be due, his agent or attorney, is hereby empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor, and to take him or her before any judge of the circuit or district courts of the United States, residing or being within the state, or before any magistrate of a county, city, or town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made, and upon proof, to the satisfaction of such judge or magistrate, either by oral testimony or affidavit taken before and certified by a magistrate of any such state or territory, that the person so seized or arrested doth, under the laws of the state or territory from which he or she fled, owe service or labor to the person claiming him or her, it shall be the duty of such judge or magistrate to give a certificate thereof to such claimant, his agent or attorney, which shall be sufficient warrant for removing the said fugitive from labor, to the state or territory from which he or she fled.

4. SEC. IV. Any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct or hinder such claimant, his agent or attorney, in so seizing

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