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SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That all penalties and forfeitures, incurred by force of this act, may be mitigated and remitted in the manner prescribed by the act, entitled "An act to provide for mitigating and remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned;" and all penalties and for

have been, or may be re-imported in vessels owned by citizens of the United States, and which having sailed subsequent to the first day of October last, and prior to the twenty-second day of December last, may be or have been stopped on the high seas by foreign armed vessels, and by reason thereof have returned, or may hereafter return into the United States. And the said Comp-feitures which may be recovered in pursuance of troller is likewise authorized to direct the exportation bonds given for foreign merchandise, exported with privilege of drawback, in such vessel and re-imported in the same, in the manner aforesaid, to be cancelled, the duties on such re-importation being previously paid, and on such other conditions and restrictions as may be necessary for the security of the revenue.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That, during the continuance of the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, no foreign ship or vessel shall go from one port in the United States to another, and should any foreign ship or vessel, contrary to this section, go from one port of the United States to another, the vessel with her cargo shall be wholly forfeited, the owner, or owners, agent, factors, freighters, and master of such ship or vessel, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, nor less than one thousand dollars.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That no vessel, flat, or boat, comprehended in this act shall be obliged to pay more than twenty cents for each clearance.

SBC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the collectors of the customs be, and they are hereby, respectively authorized to detain any vessel ostensibly bound with a cargo to some other port of the United States, whenever in their opinions the intention is to violate or evade any of the provisions of the acts laying an embargo, until the decision of the President of the United States be had thereupon.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That if any unusual deposites of provisions, lumber, or other articles of domestic growth or manufacture, shall have been, or shall be made in any of the ports of the United States, adjacent to the territories, colonies, or provinces of a foreign nation, the collector of the district shall be, and he hereby is, authorized to take the same in his custody, and not to permit such articles to be removed until bond with sufficient sureties shall have been given for the landing or delivery of the same in some port or place of the United States.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That any ship or vessel, owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States, loaded, or in part loaded, with the produce of the United States, before the act laying an embargo was passed, and by said act detained in any port of the United States, may be permitted to proceed to any other port of the United States, and there to remain with such cargo on board, subject to such other restrictions and bonds as are prescribed in the act laying an embargo, and the several supplementary acts thereto.

this act, in consequence of any seizure made by the commander of any public armed vessel of the United States, shall be distributed according to the rules prescribed by the act, entitled "An act for the government of the Navy of the United States," and all other penalties and forfeitures, arising under this act, shall be distributed in the manner prescribed by the act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage."

SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That nothing in the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, or in the several acts supplementary thereto, or in the act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, wares, and merchandise, shall be construed to prevent the exportation by land. or inland navigation, from the territories of the United States into those of Great Britain, of furs and peltries, the property of subjects of Great Britain, and by them purchased from the Indians, or to prevent the importation by land, or inland navigation, from the territories of Great Britain into those of the United States, of merchandise the property of British subjects, and by them imported solely for the use of the Indians aforesaid. Approved, April 25, 1808.

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An Act supplemental to "An act regulating the grants
of land in the Territory of Michigan."
Be it enacted, &c., That every person claiming
lands, within that part of the Michigan Territory
to which the Indian title hath been extinguished,
by virtue of any legal grant made by the French
Government prior to the Treaty of Paris, of the
tenth of February, one thousand seven hundred
and sixty-three; or of any legal grant made by
the British Government subsequent to the said
treaty, and prior to the Treaty of Peace between
the United States and Great Britain, of the third
of September, one thousand seven hundred and
eighty-three, or of the second section of the act to
which this act is a supplement, shall be allowed
until the first day of January next, to deliver to
the register of the land office for the district of
Detroit, a notice in writing, stating the nature and
extent of his claims, together with a plat or plats
of the tract or tracts claimed; and if such person
shall fail to deliver such notice in writing, together
with a plat of the tract claimed, all his right, so
far as it may be derived from any act of Congress,
shall become void; and the Commissioners ap-
pointed for the purpose of ascertaining and deci-
ding the rights of persons claiming lands in the
said district of Detroit, shall have the same powers
and perform the duties in relation to the claims,
notices of which shall be thus filed, as are provided

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by the act to which this act is a supplement, in relation to the claims therein described.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person whose claim has been or shall be confirmed, by the Commissioners aforesaid, to a tract of land bordering on the river Detroit, and not exceeding in depth forty arpens, French measure, shall be entitled to a preference in becoming the purchaser of any vacant tract of land adjacent to, and back of his own tract, not exceeding forty arpens, French measure, in depth, nor in quantity of land that which is contained in his own tract, at the same price, and on the same terms and conditions as are provided by law for the other public lands in the said district. And the surveyor general shall be, and he is hereby, authorized, as soon as may be, to cause to be surveyed the tracts claimed by virtue of this section, and in all cases where, by reason of bends in the said river, and of adjacent prior, or pre-emption claims, each claimant cannot obtain a tract equal in quantity to the adjacent tract already owned by him, to divide the vacant land, applicable to that object, between the several claimants, in such manner as to him will appear most equitable. And every person entitled to the benefit of this section, shall, on or before the first day of January next, deliver to the register of the land office for the district of Detroit, a notice in writing, stating the situation and extent of the tract of land he wishes to purchase, and deposite at the same time one-twentieth part of the purchase money; and shall also, within three months after the return of the survey to the office of the said register, produce to him a receipt from the receiver of public money for the said district for one-fourth part of the purchase money. And if any such person shall fail to deliver such notice, and make such deposite and payment, at the times above mentioned, his right of pre-emption shall cease, and become void.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That every person who, being the head of a family, did, prior to the twenty-sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, and doth, at the time of the passage of this act, inhabit and cultivate a tract of land in the Territory of Michigan, not claimed by virtue of a legal French or British grant, or by the second section of the act to which this act is a supplement, shall be entitled to a preference, in becoming the purchaser from the United States of such tract of land, not exceeding one section, at the price at which the other public lands in the said Territory are directed to be sold ; and payment may be made therefor in the same manner, and

under the same conditions, as are provided by law for such other public lands. And every person entitled to the benefit of this section, shall, on or before the first day of January next, deliver to the register of the land office, for the district aforesaid, a notice in writing, of the situation and extent of the tract of land he wishes to purchase. The Commissioners aforesaid are hereby authorized to examine and decide the claims of every person claiming the benefit of this section, and whenever it shall appear to them that the claimant is entitled to a right of pre-emption they shall give a certificate thereof, directed to the register of the land office, which certificate, together with a receipt from the receiver of public money, of at least one-fourth part of the purchase money, shall, on or before the first day of January next, be produced by the claimant to the register of the land office for the said district. And if any person shall fail to deliver such notice in writing, or produce such certificate and receipt within the times above-mentioned, his right of pre-emption shall cease and become void.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of the second section of the act to which this act is a supplement, as provides that not more than one tract or parcel of land shall be granted to any one person, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the lands to which the Indian title has been extinguished, by the treaty made at Detroit, on the seventeenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven, shall be attached to and made a part of the district of Detroit, and be offered for sale at that place, under the same exceptions and regulations, at the same price, and on the same terms, as other lands lying in that district. Approved, April 25, 1808.

Resolution to authorize the disposition of certain charts

of the coast of North Carolina.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be sold as many of the charts of the coast of North Carolina, published in conformity to the resolution which passed the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, as shall remain on hand. after reserving the number requisite for the use of the Government of the United States. Approved, March 4, 1808.

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TO THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE FIRST SESSION OF
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