TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch.70. 1S45.
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; Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That upon the arrival of anyi such goods at Santa Fe or Chihuahua , they, with the invoice and certi-ficates aforesaid, shall be submitted to the inspection of the Consul ofthe United States , or such agent as the President may appoint for thatpurpose; who, if fully convinced thereof, shall, in such form as the Se-cretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, certify upon said invoice thatthe goods have arrived there in the original packages as imported, with-out change or alteration, and have been exported from the United States in good faith, to be disposed of and consumed in a foreign country.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted , That if the exporter shall givebond, with satisfactory sureties, in thrice the amount of duties, that thesaid merchandise by him exported has been delivered at either of theplaces aforesaid without the United States , in good faith, to be sold andconsumed there, and shall also produce said invoice, with the regularcertificates thereon, the collector shall thereupon pay to him the usualdrawback allowed by law.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Trea-; sury shall appoint inspectors to reside at each of the following places towit: Van Buren, Fulton, and Independence, abovenamed, or such otherplace in Missouri as the Secretary of the Treasury shall designate; whoshall each have a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars, and make a fullreport of all the trade that passes under their inspection, to the Secre-tary of the Treasury, semi-annually, giving an account of the numberof packages, the kind of goods, the value, and the names of the ex-porters.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That any imported merchandisewhich has been entered, and the duties paid or secured according tolaw, for drawback, may be exported to the British North American Provinces adjoining the United States ; and the ports of Plattsburg, inthe District of Champlain; Burlington, in the District of Vermont;Sacketts Harbor, Oswego, and Ogdensburg , in the District of Oswe-gatchie; Rochester, in the District of Genesee; Buffalo and Erie , inthe District of Prequ’isle; Cleveland , in the District of Cuyahoga;Sandusky and Detroit , together with such ports on the seaboard fromwhich merchandise may now be exported, for the benefit of drawback,are hereby declared ports from whence foreign goods, wares, and mer-chandise, on which the import duty has been paid, or secured to bepaid, may be exported to ports in the adjoining British Provinces, andto which ports foreign goods, wares, and merchandise may be transport-ed inland, or by water from the port of original importation, under ex-isting provisions of law, to be thence exported for benefit of drawback :Provided, That such other ports situated on the frontiers of the UnitedStates, adjoining the British North American Provinces, as may here-after be found expedient, may have extended to them the like privileges,on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, and procla-mation duly made by the President of the United States , specially de-signating the ports to which the aforesaid privileges are to be extended.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That all laws now in force in re-lation to the allowance of drawback of duties upon goods imported intothe United States and exported therefrom, and in relation to the condir| tions and evidence on which siuch drawback is to be paid, shall be ap-! plicable to the drawback allowed by this act. And, in addition to ex-isting provisions on the subject, to entitle exporters of goods to the draw-' back allowed by this act, they shall produce to the collector of the portfrom which such goods, wares, and merchandise were exported, thecertificate, under seal of the collector or other chief revenue officer ofthe port to which the said goods, wares, and merchandise were exportedin the said adjoining provinces; which certificate shall be endorsed upona duplicate or certified copy off the manifest granted at the time of such
Exporter togive bond forduties.
Drawback,when payable.
Sec. Treas. toappoint inspect,ors, their salaryand duty.
Exportation tothe BritishNorth Ameri-can provinces,for drawback.
Ports fromwhich goodsmay be export-ed.
Proviso.
Laws now inforce, in relationto drawback,applicable to thepresent act.
Additionalprovisions tosecure draw-back.