VII.-Penaltics.

20. Any transgression against these regulations committed by the cruisers shall be punished by the customs collectors with a fine of not less than five dollars nor exceeding two hundred dollars, except in cases of smuggling, in which case the customs regulations shall be enforced.

21. These fines shall be deposited, and held in deposit, until the Department (Treasury Department) shall decide upon their legality, to which end the customs collector shall in each case submit a report. Transitory.

All foregoing regulations are annulled.
Mexico, June 24, 1874.

MEGIA.

HOVERING ACTS.

GREAT BRITAIN.

[9. Geo II, Cap. 35. A. D. 1736.]

An act for indemnifying persons who have been guilty of offenses against the laws made for securing the revenues of customs and excise, and for enforcing those laws for the future.

XXII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the said twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-six, where any ship or vessel whatsoever coming or arriving from foreign parts, and having on board six pounds of tea, or any foreign brandy, arrack, rum, strong waters, or other sprits whatsoever, in casks under sixty gallons (except only for the use of the seamen then belonging to and on board such ship or vessel, not exceeding two gallons for each seamen) shall be found at anchor or hovering within the limits of any of the ports of this Kingdom, or within two leagues of the shore, or shall be discovered to have been within the limits of any port, and not proceeding on her voyage, wind and weather permitting (unless in case of unavoidable necessity, and distress of weather, of which necessity and distress the master, purser, or other person having or taking the charge or command of such ship or vessel shall give notice to, and make proof of before the collector or other chief officer of the customs of such port as aforesaid immediately after the arrival of such ship or vessel into the said port) all such tea, foreign brandy, arrack, rum, strong waters, and spirits, together with the chests, boxes, and casks, and other package whatsoever, containing the same goods, or the value thereof, shall be forfeited and lost (whether bulk shall then have been broken or not) and the same goods and package shall and may be seized and prosecuted, or the value thereof sued for by any officers of the customs or excise in such manner and form as hereinafter is expressed; any law, statute, or custom to the contrary nothwithstanding.

XXIII. And whereas foreign goods are frequently taken out of ships at sea without the limits of any port, with intent to be fraudulently lan led in this kingdom; for preventing thereof, be it further enacted by the au thority aforesaid, that in case any foreign goods, wares, or merchandizes shall, after the twenty ninth day of September, one thousand

seven hundred and thirty-six, by any ship, boat, or vessel whatsoever, be taken in at sea, or put out of any ship or vessel whatsoever, within the distance of four leagues from any of the coasts of this kingdom (whether the same be within or without the limits of any of the ports thereof) without payment of the customs and other duties due and payable for the same (unless in case of apparent necessity or some other lawful reason, of which the master or other person having charge of such ship, vessel, or boat so taking in the same shall give immediate notice to and make proof before the chief officer or officers of the customs of the first port of this kingdom where he shall arrive), such goods, wares, and merchandizes shall be forfeited and lost, and the master or other person having charge of such ship, vessel, or boat so taking in the same and all such persons who shall be aiding, assisting, or otherwise concerned in the unshipping or receiving of the said goods, wares, or merchandizes shall forfeit treble the value thereof; and the ships, boats, or vessels into which the said goods, wares and merchandizes shall be unshipped and taken in shall also be forfeited and lost, any ship, boat, or vessel, so to be forfeited and lost not exceeding the burthen of one hundred tuns; and the master, purser, or other person taking charge of such ship or vessel out of which such goods shall be taken (unless in case of such apparent necessity or other lawful reason, whereof notice shall be given by him, and proof be made as aforesaid) shall also forfeit treble the value of the goods so unshipped as aforesaid; which forfeitures shall be divided and recovered in such manner as is hereinafter mentioned.

UNITED STATES.

SEC. 2760. The officers of the revenue cutters shall respectively be deemed officers of the customs, and shall be subject to the direction of such collectors of the revenue, or other officers thereof, as from time to time shall be designated for that purpose. They shall go on board all vessels which arrive within the United States or within four leagues of the coast thereof, if bound for the United States, and search and examine the same, and every part thereof, and shall demand, receive, and certify the manifests required to be on board certain vessels, shall affix and put proper fastenings on the hatches and other communications with the hold of any vessel, and shall remain on board such vessels until they arrive at the port or place of their destination.

SEC. 2867. If after the arrival of any vessel laden with merchandise and bound to the United States, within the limits of any collectiondistrict or within four leagues of the coast, any part of the cargo of such vessel shall be unladen, for any purpose whatever, before such vessel has come to the proper place for the discharge of her cargo, or some part thereof, and has been there duly authorized by the proper officer of the customs to unlade the same, the master of such vessel and the mate, or other person next in command, shall respectively be liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars for each such offense, and the merchandise so unladen shall be forfeited, except in case of some unavoidable accident, necessity, or distress of weather. In case of such unavoidable accident, necessity, or distress the master of such vessel shall give notice to, and, together with two or more of the officers or mariners on board such vessel, of whom the mate or other person next

in command shall be one, shall make proof upon oath before the collector, or other chief officer of the customs of the district, within the limits of which such accident, necessity, or distress happened, or before the collector, or other chief officer of the collection-district within the limits of which such vessel shall first afterward arrive, if the accident, necessity, or distress happened not within the limits of any district, but within four leagues of the coast of the United States. The collector or other chief officer is hereby authorized and required to administer such oath.

SEC. 2868. If any merchandise, so unladen from on board any such vessel, shall be put or received into any other vessel, except in the case of such accident, necessity, or distress, to be so notified and proved, the master of any such vessel into which the merchandise shall be so put and received, and every other person aiding and assisting therein, shall be liable to a penalty of treble the value of the merchandise, and the vessel in which they shall be so put shall be forfeited.

ST. HELENA ACT.

[56 Geo. III, Cap. 23. 11th April, 1816.]

AN ACT for regulating the Intercourse with the Island of St. Helena, during the time Napoleon Bonaparte shall be detained there; and for indemnifying Persons in the Cases therein mentioned.

IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Governor, or in his Absence the Deputy Governor of the said Island for the time being, or for the Commander for the time being of His Majesty's Naval or Military Forces stationed off or at the said Island, respectively, and the Persons acting under his or their Orders and Com mands, respectively, by all necessary Ways and Means to hinder and prevent any Ship, Vessel, or Boat, Ships or Vessels or Boats, (except Ships and Vessels of and belonging to or chartered by the said United Company of Merchants, and also duly licensed by the said Company for that Purpose, as hereinbefore mentioned,) from repairing to, trading, or touching at the said Island, or having any Communication with the same; and to hinder and prevent any Person or Persons from landing upon the said Island from such Ships, Vessels or Boats, and to seize and detain all and every Person or Persons that shall land upon the said Island from the same; and all such Ships, Vessels or Boats (except as above excepted) as shall repair to, or trade, or touch at the said Island, or shall be found hovering within Eight Leagues of the Coast thereof, and which shall or may belong, in the Whole or in Part, to any Subject or Subjects of His Majesty, or to any Person or Persons owing Allegiance to His Majesty, shall and are hereby declared to be forfeited to His Majesty, and shall and may be seized and detained, and brought to England, and shall and may be prosecuted to Condemnation by His Majesty's Attorney General, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, in such manner and form as any Ship, Vessel or Boat may be seized, detained, or prosecuted for any Breach or Violation of the Navigation or Revenue Laws of this Country; and the Offence for which such Ship, Vessel or Boat shall be proceeded against shall and may be laid and charged to have been done and committed in the County of Middlesex; and if any Ship, Vessel or Boat not belonging, in the Whole

or in Part, to any Person or Persons the Subject or Subjects of or owing Allegiance to His Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, shall repair to, or trade or touch at the said Island of Saint Helena, or shall be found hovering within Eight Leagues of the Coast thereof, and shall not depart from the said Island or the Coast thereof when and so soon as the Master or other Person having the Charge and Command thereof shall be ordered so to do by the Governor or Lieutenant Governor of the said Island for the time being, or by the Commander of His Majesty's Naval or Military Force stationed at or off the said Island for the time being, (unless in case of unavoidable Necessity, or Distress of Weather,) such Ship or Vessel shall be deemed Forfeited, and shall and may be seized and detained and prosecuted in the same manner as hereinbefore enacted as to Ships, Vessels or Boats of or belonging to any Subject or Subjects of His Majesty.

QUARANTINE ACT OF 1825.

[6 Geo. IV, C. 78, Secs. 2, 8, 9. 27th June, 1825.]

AN ACT to repeal the several Laws relating to the Performance of Quarantine, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof.

II. And be it enacted, That from and after the First Day of June, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, all Vessels, as well His Majesty's Ships of War as others, coming from or having touched at any Place from whence His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by and with the Advice of His or Their Privy Council, shall have adjudged and declared it probable that the Plague or other infectious Disease or Distemper highly dangerous to the Health of His Majesty's Subjects may be brought, and all Vessels and Boats receiving any Person, Goods, Wares and Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wearing Apparel, Books, Letters, or any other Article whatsoever, from or out of any Vessel so coming from or having touched at such infected Place as aforesaid, whether such Persons, Goods, Wares and Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wearing Apparel, Books, Letters, or other Articles, shall have come or been brought in such Vessels, or such Person shall have gone, or Articles have been put on board the same, either before or after the Arrival of such Vessels at any Port or Place in the United Kingdom, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, and whether such Vessels were or were not bound to any Port or Place in the United Kingdom or the Islands aforesaid, and all Persons, Goods, Wares and Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wearing Apparel, Books, Letters, or any other Article whatsoever on board of any Vessels so coming from or having touched at such infected Place as aforesaid, or on board of any such Receiving Vessels, or Boats as aforesaid, shall be and be considered to be liable to Quarantine within the Meaning of this Act, and of any Order or Orders which shall be made by His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, by and with the Advice of His or Their Privy Council, concerning Quarantine and the Prevention of Infection, from the Time of the Departure of such Vessels from such infected Place as aforesaid, or from the time when such Persons, Goods, Wares, Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wearing Apparel, Books, Letters, or other Articles shall have been received on board respectively.

VIII. And be it further enacted, That every Commander, Master, or other Person having the Charge of any Vessel liable to the Performance of Quarantine, shall be and is hereby required, at all Times, when such Vessel shall meet with any other Vessel at Sea, or shall be within Two Leagues of the Coast of the United Kingdom, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, to hoist a Signal to denote that his Vessel is liable to the Performance of Quarantine, which Signal shall in the Day Time, if the said Vessel shall have a clean Bill of Health, a large Yellow Flag of Six Breadths of Bunting at the Maintop Masthead; and if such Vessel shall not have a Clean Bill of Health, then a like Yellow Flag with a circular Mark or Ball entirely Black in the Middle thereof, whose Diameter shall be equal to Two Breadths of Bunting; and in the Night Time the Signal shall in both Cases be a large Signal Lanthorn with a Light therein (such as is commonly used on board His Majesty's Ships of War), at the same Masthead; and such Commander, Master, or other Person shall keep such Signals respectively, as the Case shall be, hoisted during such Time as the said Vessel shall continue within Sight of such other Vessel, or within Two Leagues of the said Coasts or Islands, and while so in Sight, or within such Distance, until such Vessel so liable to Quarantine as aforesaid shall have arrived at the Port or Place where it is to perform Quarantine, and until it shall have been legally discharged from the Performance thereof; on Failure whereof such Commander, Master, or other Person having Charge of such Ship or Vessel so liable to the Performance of Quarantine shall forfeit and pay for every such Offense the Sum of One hundred Pounds.

IX. And be it further enacted, That every Commander, Master, or other Person having the Charge of any Vessel on board whereof the Plague or other infectious Disease or Distemper highly dangerous to the Health of His Majesty's Subjects shall actually be, shall be, and is hereby required at all Times when such Vessel shall meet with any other Vessel at Sea, or shall be within Two Leagues of the coast of the United Kingdom, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, to hoist a Signal to denote that his Vessel has the plague or other infectious Disease or Distemper highly dangerous to the Health of His Majesty's Subjects actually on board thereof, which Signal shall be in the Day Time a Flag of Yellow and Black, borne Quarterly, of Eight Breadths of Bunting, at the Maintop Masthead; and in the Night Time the Signal shall be Two large Signal Lanthorns, such as are commonly used on board of His Majesty's Ships of War, one over the other at the same Masthead; and such Commander, Master, or other Person shall keep such Signal hoisted during such Time as the said Vessel so having the Plague or such other infectious Disease or Distemper as aforesaid on board thereof shall continue within Sight of such other Vessel, or within Two Leagues of the Coast or Islands aforesaid, while so in Sight or within such Distance, until such Vessel so having the Plague or such other infectious Disease or Distemper as aforesaid on board thereof, shall have arrived at the Port or Place where it is to perform Quarantine, and until it shall have been legally discharged from the Performance thereof; on failure thereof such Commander, Master, or other Person having Charge of such Vessel shall forfeit and pay for every such Offense the Sum of One hundred Pounds.