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THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 71. 1854. 301 year from the date of the register, make anew the oath or atlirmation aforesaid, and the collector of the customs shall certify the date of said renewed oath or affirmation on the back of said register, which shall continue in force for one year from said date, andthe oath or affirmation may be so renewed and the indorsement so made once in each and every year thereafter, and the register shall continue in force accordingly. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That before granting a register to Bondtobegivany steamboat or vessel, owned by the company aforesaid, the president en for the emthereof shall, together with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the §;‘g;‘°“" °f um collector of the customs, by whom, under the direction of the Secretary ' of the Treasury, the register may be issued, become bound to the United States in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, with condition that the commons. steamboat or vessel shall be solely employed in the transportation of merchandise and passengers between the Atlantic and Paeiilc ports of the United States as aforesaid; that the register shall be solely used for said steamboat or vessel; that it shall not be sold, lent, or otherwise disposed of to any other company, person, or persons ; and that in ease such steamboat or vessel shall be sold, lost, or otherwise prevented from returning to the United States, the said register shall, within six months thereafter, if preserved, be returned to the collector of the customs who issued it or to the register of the treasury for cancellation; and on failure Penalty ¤r_¤¤c to comply with any of the conditions aforesaid, a forfeiture shall accrue €,§’;“gg;5Q§u;'1;“1gf to the United States of the entire penal sum named in said bond, to be bong_ enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction, and the outstanding register shall be null and void. Size. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever the officer to whom New register said register had been issued shall cease to be the president of said whgggfgg _ company, any register which may have been issued in his name shall be ,0,, bccgmcsu void, and a new register must be issued, in compliance with the pro- president of the visions of this act. °°mp*my` Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That before issuing any register as Vessel must aforesaid, it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the g°;°I$L"$‘)‘?U· , , . . . . . s Ject lreasury that the steamboat or vessel for which the register is to issue to U_ s_ ;,,ws_ shall have been built and equipped wholly in the United States; and said steamboats and vessels shall, in all respects, be subject to the laws of the United States in the same manner as vessels built wholly and registered by American citizens. Approved, June 29, 1854. Cris?. LXXI.———An Act to enable the President tp]` the United States to fuI_jU thathird June 29, 185% article of the Treaty between the United States an the Mexican Republic, of the thzrtieth 1* of December, one thousand eight hundred zmcljijly-three, as amended by the Senate of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and [muse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of ten millions Appropriation of dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in g‘;'{,;‘;T;"};1_ the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the President of the nl third article United States to fulfil the stipulation in the third article of the treaty ggegiity with between the United States and the Mexican Republic, of the thirtieth of ' December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, as subsequently amended by the Senate of the United States; of which said sum of ten when to be millions of dollars, seven millions are to be paid on the exchange of the pm, ratiiications of said treaty, and the remaining three millions as soon as the boundary line shall be surveyed, marked, and established. APPROv1·:n, June 29, 1854.