...poft-office and poft-roads withinthe United States," 177 XCVI. An act fupplementary to the act, intitled, " an act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties on goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United States, and an the tonnage ofjhifs or vejfeli"...

...comply with the duty hereby enjoined, or which is enjoined in the third fection of the act, intitled, *' An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties impofed by law on goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United States, and on the tonnage...

...rule, prescribed by the forty-third section of the aft, entitled, "Anací to provide more efteclually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares, or merchandise imported into the united states, and on the tonпасе of ships or vessels;"* and the...

...shall be collected and received by them, for and on account of the duties arising on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the TONNAGE of ships and vessels." There is no difference between the words of this act; and those of the act of 1799, excepting that...

...resolution was moved declaring the opinion that certain duties ought to be levied on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States; and on the tonnage of vessels. This resolution was introduced by Mr. Madison from Virginia in a short speech, in which he...

...consider it as void, not having been regularly issued. The seventh section of the act of the United States to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, £cc. enacts, " that every collector, na- Laws of the . . us vol.-. i. val officer, and surveyor, in...

...shall appoint, according to the rule prescribed by the forty-third section of the act, intitled, " An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law ou goods, wares and merchandize, imported into the United States and on the tonnagC of ships or vessels.1'...

...regulating the collection of duties on goods imported, and on tonnage, was the act of August 4, 1 79O, entitled " An act to provide more effectually for...collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and nj.er» chandise, imported into the United States, and OB tne tonnage of ships or vessels." By the...

...per cent, on all moneys by them respectively received on account of the duties arising on goods, &c. imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships and vessels," whereby the defendant's commissions were established at three per cent. A difference of phraseology...

...title of the act of the 4th August, 1 790, varies very essentially from the title recited. It is " An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties," &c. It is no objection that the act of the 31*? o 1789, was repealed before the act of the 18th of...