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State Duties.

Package, Cafk, Chest and Trunk by you taken on Board your Ship or Veffel, at
the Port, Ports or Places from which you came, and also a true and perfect Ac-
count of each particular Article of Goods, Wares and Merchandize by you
taken on Board your Ship or Veffel at the Port, Ports or Places from which Oath.
you came, and of which Bales, Packages, Cafks, Trunks, Chests or Goods you
are by Law directed to make a Manifest, and that the Bales, Packages, Cafks,
Chests and Trunks, specified in faid Manifest, did not at the Time they were
shipped or taken on Board your Ship or Veffel, nor do they now contain any other
Goods, Wares and Merchandize, than what you have specified in your Mani-
fest, and that no Article whatever bath been unladen from your Veffel.

So help you GOD.

Provided nevertheless, That if at the Time of exhibiting fuch Manifeft, the Owner of fuch Bale, Package, Cask, Chest or Trunk, or any others credible Person in behalf of fuch Owner, shall appear and exhibit an Invoice expreffing the Kind, Quantity and Quality of each and every Article of Goods, Wares and Merchandize contained in any fuch Bale, Pack- Provifos age, Cask, Cheft or Trunk, and shall before the proper Naval-Officer or Collector, make Oath that the Invoice by him exhibited, is a true and perfect Inventory of every Article of Goods, Wares and Merchandize that was packed or contained therein, at the Time such Bale, Package, Cafk, Cheft or Trunk was shipped on Board the Ship, Vefssel or Boat in which imported, and at the Time of exhibiting faid Invoice, the Master shall not be obliged to infert an Account of fuch Bale, Package, Cafk, Cheft or Trunk, in the Manifest by him exhibited.

And it shall be lawful for the Master of every Veffel, Ship or Boat, within twenty-four Hours after arriving at his Port of Delivery in this State, to open for the Purpose of making a Manifeft according to the Order of this Act, every Bale, Package, Cask, Chest and Trunk, of which he is by Law to make a Manifeft, unless the Owner thereof, or fome other Person in his behalf, shall appear and exhibit an Invoice thereof, according to the Terms of this Proviso, and pay, and secure to be paid, the Duties accordingly.

And be it furtber Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if in any Cafe, the Provisions of this Act, with Respect to exhibiting a Manifeft, and making Oath thereto, shall not be complied with, all the Forfeitures and Penalties of faid former Act, shall, by such Neglect be incurred: Which Forfeitures and Penalties may be profecuted for, and recovered, and difpofed in the fame Manner, and to the fame Uses and Persons, as the Forfei tures and Penalties in similar Cafes, are by faid former Act to be profecuted for and disposed of.

And be it further Enacted, That in all Cafes where a Duty of Five per Cent. ad Valorem, by the faid former Act is to be paid, the Rule for afcertaining the Value of the Goods at the Time and Place of Importation, shall be the fame as is provided in faid former Act, in Cafe of Goods imported in a Ship, Vessel, or Boat of the Burthen of thirty-five Tons or more. And the Perfon who exhibits an Invoice, according to the Provisions of the faid former Act, shall, instead of the Oath therein provided, make Oath before the Naval-Officer or Collector to whom the Invoice is exhibited, that the Invoice, or Invoices by him exhibited, are the true Invoice, or Invoices of the Articles therein enumerated and specified, and that the Prices therein stated, are the Prices at which those respective Articles were bona fide bought by him, and that the Invoice, or Invoices by him exhibited, do contain a full and perfect Account of every Article of Goods, Wares, and Merchandize by him shipped on Board of, or imported directly or indirectly in the Ship, Vessel, or Boat in which the Articles specified in the Invoice by him exhibited were imported.

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Master ena bled to open the packages, &c. unless, &c.

Forfeitures how recovered and difposed of.

Rule for af certaining the values

&c.

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Navigation. Lands.

And be it further Enacted, That if any Perfon whatever, having taken either of the Oaths provided by this Act to be taken, small fallify the Truth in any of the Matters to which the Oath he has taken relates, he thelt on Conviction thereof, fuffer the Pains, Penalties and Disabilities of wilful Perjury.

And be it further Enalted, That all Veffels and Boats, under the Burthen of thirty-five Tons, and their Tackle, Apparel, Furniture, or Cargo, feized by Virtue of faid former Act, shall and may be libeled before the fame Court, and be proceeded with in the fame Manner as by faid former Act is provided in Cafe of Veffels under the Burthen of twenty-five Tons.

An Act in Addition to an Act, entitled, An Act for

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the Regulation of Navigation.

it Enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That in future 'every Veffel of the Burthen of Fifteen Tons and upwards, that shall be, or has been built in this State, or whose Owners, or any Part of them shall belong to or reside within this State, whose Owner or Master shall neglect or refuse to take out a Register from this State, as is directed by faid Act, faid Veffel shall be liable to be seized, and forfeited to the Use of this State. And it shall be the Duty of the Naval-Officer, to feize and prosecute the fame as aforesaid.

An Act in Addition to an Act, entitled, An Act for the Regulation of Navigation.

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E it Enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General Court affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That there shall be kept at the Port of Norwich, one Naval-Officer, who shall be nominated and deputed in the fame Way and Manner, and be subject to the fame Rules and Regulations that other Naval-Officers in this State by Law are. That for the future, the several Naval-Officers in this State, that are, or may hereafter be appointed, shall, once in fix Months render their several particular Accounts to the Treasurer of this State, of all the Monies and Certificates for Interest which they may or shall receive for any Duties or Impofts for the Ufe and Benefit of this State, and pay and deliver the fame to the faid Treasurer, taking his Receipt therefor; and on Failure thereof, he or they shall, upon Complaint and Proof made to his Excellency the Governor, be (ex officio) dismissed from his or their Office, and another appointed in his or their Room and Stead: And it shall be the Duty of faid Treasurer to make Complaint to his Excellency the Governor of all fuch Failures and Neglects.

An Act in further Addition to, and Alteration of an Act, intitled, An Act for the better establishing and confirmation of the Titles of Land, &c. made and passed in October, 1723.

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it Enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General Court afsembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That where any Warrant shall be obtained from an Assistant or Justice of the Peace, purfuant to the directions of faid Act, for calling a Meeting of the Proprie tors of fuch common or undivided Lands, the fame, instead of the Mode directed

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Listers. Washington.

directed by faid Act, shall be published by inserting in fome public NewsPaper, in or nearest the Town where such Lands are situate, four Weeks successively; and also by posting on the public Sign-poft in fuch Town, at least twenty Days before the Day appointed for fuch Meeting; which shall be a fufficient Warning and Notice for holding the fame.

And be it further Enacted, That the Method provided by this and the aforesaid Act, may be had and taken for the obtaining and calling fuch Proprietors Meeting, any Difficulty or Impediment which may have taken place by Means or in Confequence of any fuch Proprietors having adopted, agreeable to the Liberty of faid Act, any other or different Mode of calling fuch Meetings notwithstanding.

An Act in Alteration of an Act, intitled, An Act for the Direction of Lifters in their Office and Duty.

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Enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General Court affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That all Swine empted. shall hereafter be exempted out of the List of rateable Estate.

An Act in Addition to a Law, intitled, An Act for stating, limiting and naming the Counties in this

State.

WHEREAS in the late Revision of the Laws of this State, the Town of
Washington was omitted to be entered in the Lists of Towns for the
County of Litchfield, when it ought to have been inferted in faid List, next
after the Town of Norfolk.

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the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General
Court afssembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That the Town of
Washington, be included in, and be a Part of the County of Litchfield.

NEW-LONDON:

Printed by TIMOTHY GREEN, Printer to the GOVERNOR and STATE of CONNECTICUT. M,DCC, LXXXIV.

Town of
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Litchfield
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ACTS AND LAWS, Made and passed by the General Court or Assembly of the State of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, (in said State) on the second Thursday of May, Anno Domini 1785.

An Act vesting the United States in Congress assembled with Power to regulate the Commerce of the United States.

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HEREAS the United States in Congress assembled, on the 30th Day of Preamble. April 1784, recommended to the several States to vest Congress with certain Powers for the Purpose of enabling them to secure to the Citizens of the United States reciprocal Advantages in their Commerce with foreign Nations, and the same baving been duly confidered and deliberated upon :

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E it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives in General Court affembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the United States in Congress assembled, be, and hereby are vested with full Powers and Authority for the Term of Fifteen Years next ensuing, to prohibit any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, from being imported into, or exported from this State in Vessels belonging to, or navigated by the Subjects of any foreign Power with whom the United States shall not have formed Treaties of Commerce, and to prohibit the Subjects of any foreign State, Kingdoms, or Empire, unless authorised by Treaty, from importing into this State any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, which are not the Produce or Manufacture of the Dominions of the Sovereign, whose Subjects they are, and to take proper Measures for carrying the

same into Effect.

Congress

vested with power to regulate Trade for the term of 15 years.

Provided, That to all Acts of the United States in Congress assembled, Proviso. in Pursuance of the above Powers, the Affent of nine States shall be neceffary. Provided also, That this Act shall not take Effect until ten States in the Union shall have passed Acts vesting Congress with fimilar Powers, and that the Prohibitions that shall be made extend alike to all States.

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