AMERICAN CONSULAR INSTRUCTIONS.
1-Collector of the Customs for the Port- -in the State of- States of America do hereby Certify that the Within Bill. of Sale bearing date of
-of the- (here describe the Vessel, her tonnage, denomination, name &c.) sold and transferred by-
-to-
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-in the United
From of Certificate of Bill of Sale. -is, in form and substance valid and effective in law, and has been duly recorded in my office; and that the said (naming the owners) are Citizens of the United States.
As Witness my hand and seal this day of—in the year of our Lord 186
L. S, Tonnage to be duly ascertained.
77. Before granting such Certificate, the Collector of the Customs will require the tonnage of the Vessel to be duly ascer- tianed in pursuance of Law, and insert the same in the description of the Vessel in his Certificate.
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78. It will be distincnly understood, however, that Vessels Registered, enrolled or licensed, under the laws of the United States, wholl owned by Citizens thereof, cannot legally import goods, wares or Merchandise from foreign ports, and are subjected in the coasting, trade to disabilities and exactions from Vessel of the United States are exempted.
72. On arrival from a foreign Port, such undocumented Vessels, if laden with Goods, Wares or Morchandise will, with their Cargoes be subjectep to forfeiture. If in ballast only, or with Passengers without Cargo, they will be subject to a tonnage duty of one dollar per ton.
CONSULAR INSTRUCTIONS. [No. 9]
To Collectors and other Officers of the Customs.
Treasury Department, June 6th 1864.
Foreign Merchan- dise cannot be import- ed in undocumented
Vessels,
which documented
When Subject to forfeiture.
If in ballast &c. to
pay tonnage duty.
The particular attention of Collectors and other Officers of the Customs is called to the anexed Act of Congress, entitled "an Act to provide for the ventilation of Pas- senger Vessels, and for other purposes approved 17th May, 1868, with instructions for the strict enforcement of its provisions.
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It is to be observed, the numbers passengers that at a vessel may be entitled to carry, is not, as under former laws, computed by her tonnage, but by her capacity oc- cording to the dimensions of the apartments occupied by the passengers, allowing for each passenger, as provides by the act of twenty second February, 1846, a space of fourteen clear superficial feet of deck, if such vessel is not to pass within the Tropics during the voyage, if passing within the Tropics twenty clear superficial feet of deck for each passenger; and on the orlop deck (if any) thirty clear superficial feet for each passenger: PROVIDED, as required by the 8th section of the act now un- der consideration, "that when the height or distance besween the decks of the vessel referred to in the 1st sectson of the act to regulate the carriages of passengers in mer- chant vessels" approved 22nd February, 1847, "shall be less than six feet, and not less than five feet, there shall be allowed to each passenger sixteen clear superficial feet on the deck, instead of fourteen as prescribed in said section; and if the height or distance between the decks shall be less than five feet, there shall be allowed to each passenger twenty two clear superficial feet on the deck." Each passenger's berth is to be included and embaced within the respective spaces before indicated, but as enjoined by law, said spaces must be "unoccupied by stores, or other goods not being the personal luggage of such passengers." The number of her berths is limited to
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