Extract from the Act of Congress, passed on the twenty-sixth day of February, 1795, entitled, "An Act, supplementary to the Act, entitled, " An Act to provide more effectually for the Collection of the Duties on Goods, Wares, and Merchandise imported into the United States, and on the Tonnage of Ships or Vessels."

Sect. 9th. "And be it further enacted, That all bonds which may be given for any goods, wares, or merchandise, exported from the United States after the last day of May next, and on which any drawback of duties, or allowance, shall be payable in virtue of such exportation, shall and may be discharged; and not otherwise, by producing, (within one year from the date thereof, if the exportation be made to any part of Europe or America, or within two years if made to any part of Asia or Africa,) a certificate under the hand of the consignee, at the foreign port or place, to whom the said goods, wares, or merchandise, shall have been addressed, therein particularly setting forth and describing the articles so exported, with their quantities or amount, and declaring that the same have been delivered from on board the vessel in which they were exported, at the said place; as also, a certificate under the hand and seal of the consul or agent of the United States, residing at the said place, declaring either that the facts stated in such consignee's certificate are to his knowledge true, or that the certificate of such consignee is, in his opinion, deserving of full credit; which certificate of the consignee and consul or agent, shall, in all cases, as respects the landing or delivery of the said goods, wares, or merchandise, be confirmed by the oath of the master and mate, if living, or, in case of their death, by the oath or affirmation of the two principal surviving officers of the vessel in which the exportation shall be made. And, in cases where there shall be no consul or agent of the United States residing at the said place of delivery, the certificate of the consignee, before required, shall be confirmed by the certificate of two reputable American merchants, residing at the said place: or, if there be no such American merchants, then by the certificate of two reputable foreign merchants, testifying, that the facts stated in such consignee's certificate are, to their knowledge, true; or that such consignee's certificate is, in their opinion, worthy of full credit; which certificate shall be supported by the oath or affirmation of the master and mate, or other principal officers of the vessel, in the manner before described. And, in cases of loss at sea, or by capture, or by other unavoidable accident; or when, from the nature of trade, the proofs and certificate before mentioned are not, and cannot be produced; the exporter or exporters shall be allowed to adduce, to the

collector of the port of exportation, such other proofs as they may have, and as the nature of the case will admit; which proof shall, with a stating of all the circumstances attending the transaction, within the knowledge of such collector, be transmitted to the comptroller of the treasury, who shall, if he be satisfied with the truth and validity thereof, have power to direct the bonds of such exporter or exporters to be cancelled.

[To obviate embarrassments from the want of a general knowledge of the section of the act before recited, and to introduce uniformity in the proofs required for cancelling bonds given on the exportation of merchandise, the annexed forms of documents have been prepared at the treasury, and their use is recommended.]

(A.)

Form of the Certificate of Consignee, declaring the Delivery of Merchandise at a foreign Port.

I, (A. A. or we, B. B. and C. C.) of the (city or town) of (merchant or merchants, and copartners in trade,) do hereby certify, that the goods and merchandise herein after described have been landed in this city, town, or port,) between the tenth and twentieth days of from on board the whereof G. G. is at present master viz. Containing fourteen thousand pounds weight of coffee.

of

A. B. No. 1 a 10, ten hogsheads,
C. D. No. 3, 6, 9, 15, four tierces,

E. F. No. 14, 18, 22, 25,

27, 30, 33, 36,

Eight

hogsheads, containing ten thousand pounds weight of brown sugar.

G. H. No. 21. a 30,pounds weight of hyson tea.

Ten chests containing seven hundred

I.K. No. 7, 16, 19,fty pices of nankeen.
Three bales containing one hundred and

Which, according to the bills of lading for the same, were

shipped on board the

the United States of America, on or about the second day of August, 1821, and consigned to (me, or to us, by I. I. of the aforesaid merchant).

of

Given under my hand, at the city of

(B.)

this

day of

Form of the Oath or Affirmation of the principal officers of a vessel, confirming the landing of merchandise at a foreign port.

Port of

of

in the United

We, G. G. master, and H. H. mate, of the lately arrived from the port of

States of America, do solemnly (swear or affirm), that the goods or merchandise, enumerated and described in the preceding certificate, dated the

signed by A. A. of the city of

day of

and merchant, was ac

tually delivered in this port from on board the said within the time specified in the said certificate.

(Sworn, or affirmed), at the city of

Form of a Verification of the delivery of merchandise at a foreign port, to be executed by a Consul or Agent of the United States.

I, M. M. (consul or agent of) the United States of America, at the city of do declare, that the facts set forth in the preceding certificate, subscribed by A. A. of the said city, merchant, and dated the are, (to my knowledge, just and true; or are, in my opinion, just and true, and deserving of full faith and credit.)

(SEAL)

day of

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of my office, at the city of

this

day of

(D.)

Form of a Verification of the delivery of merchandise, to be executed by American merchants, or by foreign merchants, if there be no American, at a port where no Consul or Agent of the United States resides.

We, the subscribers, (being American merchants) residing in the city of do declare, that the facts stated in the preceding certificate, signed by A. A. of the said city, merchant, on the day of are (to our knowledge, just and true; or are, in our opinion, just and true, and worthy of full faith and credit; we also declare that there is no consul or other public agent for the United States of America, or American merchants, (as the case may be) now residing at this place.

day of

R. S.

T. L.

It is proposed, that the certificate of the consignee, at the foreign port of delivery, be executed pursuant to the form marked (A.); or, if this form shall not be adopted, it will be necessary that the certificate should particularly set forth and describe the marks, numbers, packages, and quantities, or

amount of the goods or merchandise, so consigned; the time when landed or delivered; the denomination and name of the vessel; the port to which she belongs, and the name of the master; also, the time when, the port or place where, and the person by whom shipped or consigned, and that the person certifying the same is, in fact, the consignee.

The oath or affirmation of the master and mate, if living, or, in case of their death, of the two principal surviving officers of the vessel, may be taken according to the form marked (B.), before the consul or agent of the United States residing at the port of delivery; or, if there be no consul or agent of the United States residing there, before the chief civil magistrate of the place; but, in cases where this cannot be done without incurring considerable expense and inconvenience, the oath or affirmation may, on the return of the vessel, be taken before a collector of the customs for any district of the United States, or before any other person duly qualified to administer oaths within the same.

With respect to the form marked (C.) and (D.) it is only necessary to observe, that, in all cases when merchandise entitled to a drawback or allowance shall be exported, and consigned to the master or supercargo of the vessel in which the exportation is made, or to any other person whose reputation may not be well known at the place of destination, it will merit the attention of the exporter to consider the expediency of instructing such consignee, to communicate seasonable information to the consul or agent of the United States, or to the American or foreign merchants, residing at the port of delivery, as the case may be, in order to obtain from him or them a confirmation of the facts required to be stated in the consignee's certificate, by the declaration prescribed in the act before recited.

Coins of the United States, as established by law.

Four different currencies, or rates, at which any one species. of coin, of the same value, is reckoned in the denominations of account, have perhaps, from the first settlement of America, been, and still continue to be, used in different parts of the union. In the New England States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, including the district of Maine, Rhode Island, and Connecticut; in Vermont, Virginia, and Kentucky, the dollar is received at six shillings; in New York and North Carolina, at eight shillings; in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, at seven shillings and six pence; and in South Carolina and Georgia, at four shillings and eight pence.

Conceiving that, in an extensive and commercial nation, the trade and intercourse of one extremity with another will frequently render it necessary to reduce the currency of one to that of the other, we have framed the following

Rules for reducing the Currencies of the different States to a par with each other; as also for reducing the money of account of the United States to those currencies, and, vice versa, by decimals.

1. To reduce New England, &c. to New York and North Carolina currency, to any given sum add its third part; and, vice versa, subtract a fourth part.

2. To reduce New England, &c. to New Jersey, &c. currency, add to any given sum its fourth part; and, vice versa, subtract a fifth part.

3. To reduce New England, &c. to South Carolina and Georgia currency, as 8 to 7; and, vice versa, as 7 to 8; so is the one currency to the other.

4. To reduce New York and North Carolina to New Jersey, &c. currency; as 16 to 15; and, vice versa, as 15 to 16: so is the one to the other.

5. To reduce New York and North Carolina to South Carolina and Georgia currency, as 12 to 7; and, vice versa, as 7 to 12; so is the one to the other.