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cording to

this act into

the United

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to be employed, or shall admit or receive, or the service of permit to be admitted or received, on board his vessel, any person whose employment or admission is prohibited by the provisions of this act, he shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars for each person thus unlawfully employed or admitted on board such vessel.

Or that of

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That if their citizens. any person shall, contrary to the prohibitions of this act, be employed, or be received on board of any private vessel, the master or commander, and the owner or owners of such vessel, knowing thereof, shall respectively forfeit and pay five hundred dollars for each person thus unlawfully employed or received in any one voyage; which sum or sums shall be recovered, although such seaman or person shall have been admitted and entered in the certified list of the crew aforesaid, by the collector for the district to which the vessel may belong: and all penalties and forfeitures arising under or incurred by virtue of this act, may be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered, with costs of suit by action of debt, and shall accrue and be one moiety thereof to the use of the person who shall sue for the same, and the other moiety thereof to the use of the United States.

Foreign sea

men may be employed in American vessels in

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prohibit any commander or master of a public or private vessel of the United States, foreign ports whilst in a foreign port or place, from receiv ing any American seaman in conformity to law, or supplying any deficiency of seamen on board such vessel, by employing American seamen, or subjects of such foreign country

Conditions.

the employment of whom shall not be prohi bited by the laws thereof.

Provisions of

to the citizens

Sec 10 And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall have no effect or this act not to operation with respect to the employment as be extended seamen of the subjects or citizens of any of subjects of foreign nation which shall not, by treaty or nations special convention with the government of the which have United States, have prohibited on board of its principles. her public and private vessels the employment of native citizens of the United States, who have not become a citizen or subject of such nation.

not adopted

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That no- Not to be a thing in this act contained shall be so constru- bar to any ed as to prevent any arrangement between the treaty. United States and any foreign nation, which may take place under any treaty or convention, made and ratified in the manner prescribed by the constitution of the United States.

Residence of

States neces

sary to quality a person

Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That no person who shall arrive in the United States, five years in from and after the time when this act shall the United take effect, shall be admitted to become a citi. zen of the United States, who shall not for the continued term of five years next preceding his admission as aforesaid have resided within the United States, without being at any time during the said five years, out of the territory of the United States.

to become a citizen.

zenship or

Sec 13. And be it further enacted, That if Penalty for any person shall falsely make, forge, or coun- forging certi terfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, ficates of citi forged or counterfeited, any certificate or evi- protections dence of citizenship referred to in this act; or shall pass, utter, or use as true, any false, forged or counterfeited certificate of citizenship, or shall make sale or dispose of any certificate of citizenship to any person other than

the person for whom it was originally issued, and to whom it may of right belong, every such person shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of felony; and on being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labor for a period not less than three, or more than five years, or be fined in a sum not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, at the discretion of the court taking cognizance thereof.

Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That no suit shall be brought for any forfeiture or penalty incurred under the provisions of this act, unless the suit be commenced within three years from the time of the forfeiture.

• H. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WM. H. CRAWFORD,
President of the Senate, pro tempore.

March 3, 1813.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

CHAPTER CLXXXV.

AN ACT giving further time to purchasers of pub lic lands to complete their payments.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame rica in Congress assembled, That every person who, prior to the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and nine, had purchased

allowed for

purchasers.

any tract or tracts of land of the United States, not exceeding in the whole six hundred and Further time forty acres, unless the tract purchased be a fractional section or sections of fractional sections classed with an entire section, at any of the land offices established for the disposal of the public lands, and whose lands have not already been actually sold, or reverted to the United States, for non-payment of part of the purchase money, shall be allowed the further term of three years, from and after the expiration of the period already given by law, for completing the payment of the said purchase money, which further term of three years shall be allowed only on condition, First, That all arrears of interest on the purchase money shall have been paid on or before the time shall have expired, according to former laws. for completing the payment of the purchase money: Provided, That in all cases in which Proviso. the time for completing the payment of the purchase money may have expired or shall expire before the first day of June next, the interest may be paid on or before that day. Second, That the residue of the sum due on account of the principal of such purchase, shall be paid with interest thereon, in three equal annual payments, viz: One third of the said residue, with interest which may then be due thereon, within one year; another third of said residue, with interest within two years, and the remaining third of said residue with interest within three years after the expiration of the time for completing the payment on account of such purchase, according to former laws; and in case of failure, in paying either the arrears or interest, or any of three instalments of principal with the accruing interest, at the time and times abovementioned,

Proviso.

the tract of land shall be forthwith advertised
and offered for sale, in the manner and on the
terms directed by law, in case of lands not
paid for within the limited term, and shall re-
vert in like manner, if the sum due with in-
terest be not at such sale bidden and paid:
Provided, That the benefit of this act shall not
extend to any person or persons on account
of any purchase of any tract or tracts of land
made at any of the land offices north west of
the uver Ohio, prior to the first day of April
one thousand eight hundred and eight.
II. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. H. CRAWFORD,

President of the Senate, pro tempore.

March 3, 1813.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON..

CHAPTER CLXXXVI.

AN ACT allowing further time for delivering the evidence in support of claims to land in the territory of Missouri, and for regulating the donation grants therein.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame rica in Congress assembled, That every person or persons who had filed a notice of claim to any tract of land lying within the district of Louisiana (now territory of Missouri) with the recorder of land titles, according to law, and

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