AMERICAN PASSENGERS ACT.
Collectors to return
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Payments for each death on board.
SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That each and every collector of the customs, to whom such such lists quarterly to Secretary of State manifest or list of passengers as aforesaid shall be to be laid before delivered, shall quarter-yearly return copies thereof Congress. to the Secretary of State of the United States, by whom statements of the same shall be laid before Congress at each and every session.
SEO. 14. And be it further enacted, That in case there shall have occurred on board any ship or ves- sel arriving at any port or place within the United States or its Ter- ritories, any death or deaths among the passengers, (other than cabin passengers,) the master, or captain, or owner, or consignee of such ship or vessel, shall, within twenty-four hours after the time within which the report and list or manifest of passengers mentioned in section twelve of this act, is required to be delivered to the collector of the customs, pay to the said collector the sum of ten dollars for each and every passenger above the age of eight years, who shall have died on the voyage by natural disease; and the said collector shall pay the money thus received, at such times and in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury, by general rules, shall direct, to any Application
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board or commission appointed by and acting under thereof. the authority of the State within which the port where such ship or vessel arrived is situated, for the care and protection of sick, indigent, or destitute emigrants, to be applied to the objects of their appointment; and if there be more than one board or commission who shall claim such payment, the Secretary of the Treasury, for the time being, shall determine which is entitled to receive the same, and his decision in the premises shall be final and without appeal: Provided, That the payment shall, in no case, be awarded or made to any board, or commission, or association, formed for the protection or advancement of any particular class of emigrants of any particular nation or creed; and if the master, captain, owner, or consignee of any ship or vessel, refuse or neglect to pay to the collector the sum and sums of money required, and within the time prescribed by this section, he or they shall severally forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars, in addition to such sum of ten dollars, for each and every passenger upon whose death the same has become payable, to be recovered by the United States, in any circuit or district court of the United States, where sach vessel may arrive, or such master, captain, owner, or consignee may reside; and when recovered, the said money shall be disposed of in the same manner as is directed with respect to the sum and sums required to be paid to the collecter of customs.
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Penalty for refus- ing or neglecting to make such payment.
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SEC, 15. And be it further enacted, That the How penalties are amount of the several penalties imposed by the to be recovered, foregoing provisions regulating the parriage of passengers in merchant vessels, shall be liens on the vessel or vessels violating those› provisions, and such vessel or vessels shall bo libelled therefor in any circuit or district court of the United States, where such vessel or vessels: shall arrive..
SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That all and every vessel or vessels which shall or may be am- ployed by the American Colonization Society or the
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Vessels of Coloni- zation Societies sub- ject to this aet.
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