for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives," the section having been proposed by the Senate as an amendment to a bill for raising revenue which originated in the House.-U. S. v. Billings (C. C.), T. D. 32303. Jurisdiction of General Appraisers.-Where a tonnage duty is assessed by the collector on a vessel under said section 37, tariff act of 1909, the board has no jurisdiction of a protest claiming error in such assessment, a vessel not being imported merchandise within the meaning of section 1 of said tariff act or of section 14 of the customs administrative act, as amended by said act of 1909. But where a duty prescribed by said section at 35 per cent ad valorem is assessed, the board is invested with jurisdiction to pass on the question of its correctness, such assessment being an exaction other than a duty on imported merchandise and not a tonnage duty.-T. D. 30354 (G. A. 6981). Yachts-Sections 4214 and 4218, Revised Statutes, Amended.-The Secretary of Commerce and Labor states that the amendment to section 4214 extends to the vessels mentioned therein navigating the Great Lakes the privilege of proceeding to a foreign country without clearance, which privilege was formerly extended to vessels on the seaboard only. He further states that the amendment to section 4218 relieves every yacht of not more than 15 tons gross, visiting a foreign country, from entry at the customhouse on returning to the United States, provided there are no dutiable articles on board, but requires the delivery to the customs officer at the port or place in the United States at which such yachts or vessels shall arrive of a manifest of all dutiable articles brought in them. AN ACT To amend sections forty-two hundred and fourteen and forty-two hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections forty-two hundred and fourteen and forty-two hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes be, and the same are hereby, amended to read as follows: "SEC. 4214. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor may cause yachts used and employed exclusively as pleasure vessels or designed as models of naval architecture, if built and owned in compliance with the provisions of sections forty-one hundred and thirty-three to forty-one hundred and thirty-five, to be licensed on terms which will authorize them to proceed from port to port of the United States and to foreign ports without entering or clearing at the customhouse; such license shall be in such form as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe. Such vessels, so enrolled and licensed, shall not be allowed to transport merchandise or carry passengers for pay. Such vessels shall have their name and port placed on some conspicuous portion of their hulls. Such vessels shall, in all respects, except as above, be subject to the laws of the United States, and shall be liable to seizure and forfeiture for any violation of the provisions of this title." "SEC. 4218. Every yacht, except those of fifteen gross tons or under, visiting a foreign country under the provisions of sections forty-two hundred and fourteen, forty-two hundred and fifteen, and forty-two hundred and seventeen of the Revised Statutes shall, on her return to the United States, make due entry at the customhouse of the port at which, on such return, she shall arrive: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to exempt the master or person in charge of a yacht or vessel arriving from a foreign port or place with dutiable articles on board from reporting to the customs officer of the United States at the port or place at which said yacht or vessel shall arrive, and deliver in to said officer a manifest of all dutiable articles brought from a foreign country in such yachts or vessels." SEC. 3. That all acts and parts of acts not consistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, August 20, 1912.-Dept. Order (T. D. 32869). Instructions as to the collection of the sums equivalent to the tonnage tax, or the duty in lieu thereof, on foreign-built yachts, provided by section 37 of the tariff act of August 5, 1909.-Dept. Order (T. D. 29962). Foreign-Built American-Owned Yachts.-Regulations as to entries, clearances, payment of tonnage tax, light money, oaths as to ownership, etc.-Dept. Order (T. D. 22547). Foreign-Built Yachts Owned, Chartered, or Used by Citizens of the United States. AN ACT For the protection of yacht owners and shipbuilders of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-two hundred and sixteen of the Revised Statutes be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows: "SEC. 4216. Yachts belonging to a regularly authorized yacht club of any foreign nation which shall extend like privileges to the yachts of the United States shall have the privilege of entering or leaving any port of the United States without entering or clearing at the customhouse thereof or paying tonnage tax: Provided, That the privileges of this section shall not extend to any yacht built outside of the United States and owned, chartered, or used by a citizen of the United States, unless such ownership or charter was acquired prior to the passage of this act." SEC. 2. That section eleven of an act entitled "An act to abolish certain fees for official services to American vessels, and to amend the laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen, and owners of vessels, and for other purposes," approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, so far as the same exempts any yacht built outside of the United States and owned, chartered, or used by a citizen of the United States, from the payment of tonnage taxes, is hereby repealed. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, February 8, 1897. A true copy.-Dept. Order (T. D. 18292). [NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.-The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] 1897 Sec. 11. That no article of imported merchandise which shall copy or simulate the name or trade-mark of any domestic manufacture or manufacturer, or which shall bear a name or mark which is calculated to induce the public to believe that the article is manufactured in the United States, shall be admitted to entry at any customhouse of the United States. And in order to aid the officers of the customs in enforcing this prohibition any domestic manufacturer who had adopted trade-marks may require his name and residence and a description of his trade-marks to be recorded in books which shall be kept for that purpose in the Department of the Treasury, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and may furnish to the department facsimiles of such trade-marks; and thereupon the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause one or more copies of the same to be transmitted to each collector or other proper officer of the customs. 1894 SEC. 6. That no article of imported merchandise which shall copy or simulate the name or trade-mark of any domestic manufacture or manufacturer shall be admitted to entry at any customhouse of the United States. And in order to aid the officers of the customs in enforcing this prohibition any domestic manufacturer who has adopted trade-marks may require his name and residence and a description of his trade-marks to be recorded in books which shall be kept for that purpose in the Department of the Treasury under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and may furnish to the department facsimiles of such trade-marks; and thereupon the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause one or more copies of the same to be transmitted to each collector or other proper officer of the customs. SEC. 7. That on and after March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, no article of imported merchandise which shall copy or simulate the name or trade-mark of any domestic manufacture or manufacturer, shall be admitted to entry at any customhouse of the United States. And in order to aid the officers of the customs in enforcing this prohibition any domestic manufacturer who has adopted trade-marks may require his 1890 name and residence and a description of his trade-marks to be recorded in books which shall be kept for that purpose in the Department of the Treasury under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and may furnish to the department facsimiles of such trademarks; and thereupon the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause one or more copies of the same to be transmitted to each collector or other proper officer of the customs. 1883 SEC. 2496. No watches, watchcases, watch movements, or parts of watch movements, or any other articles of foreign manufacture, which shall copy or simulate the name or trade-mark of any domestic manufacture, shall be admitted to entry at the customhouses of the United States, unless such domestic manufacturer is the importer of the same. And in order to aid the officers of the customs in enforcing this prohibition, any domestic manufacturer who has adopted trade-marks may require his name and residence and a description of his trade-marks to be recorded in books which shall be kept for that purpose in the Department of the Treasury, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and may furnish to the department facsimiles of such trademarks; and thereupon the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause one or more copies of the same to be transmitted to each collector or other proper officer of the customs. Trade-Marks.-The attention of officers of the customs and others is invited to the provisions of section 27 of the act approved February 20, 1905, effective April 1, 1905.-Dept. Order (T. D. 29975). The attention of officers of the customs and others is invited to the provisions of section 3 of the act approved May 4, 1906, effective July 1, 1906.-Dept. Order (T. D. 27416). The attention of officers of the customs and others is invited to the provisions of section 27 of the act approved February 20, 1905, effective April 1, 1905.Dept. Order (T. D. 26198). 1897 Sec. 14. That the sixteenth section of an Act entitled "An Act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes," approved June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 16. That all articles of foreign or domestic production needed and actually withdrawn from bonded warehouses and bonded manufacturing warehouses for supplies (not including equipment) of vessels of the United States engaged in foreign trade, or in trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, may be so withdrawn from said bonded warehouses, free of duty or of internal-revenue tax, as the case may be, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; but no such articles shall be landed at any port of the United States." 1913 1909 SECTION III, TARIFF ACT OF 1913. A. That the Act entitled "An Act to simplify the laws in relation to the collection of the revenues," approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended, be further amended to read as follows: "B. That all merchandise imported into the United States shall, for the purpose of this Act, be deemed and held to be the property of the person to whom the same is consigned; and the holder of a bill of lading duly indorsed by the consignee therein named, or, if consigned to order. by the consignor, shall be deemed the consignee thereof; and in case of the abandonment of any merchandise to the underwriters the latter may be recognized as the consignee." SEC. 28. That the Act entitled "An Act to simplify the laws in relation to the collection of the revenues," approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended, be further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 1. That all merchandise imported into the United States shall. for the purpose of this Act, be deemed and held to be the property of the person to whom the same is consigned; and the holder of a bill of lading duly indorsed by the consignee therein named, or, if consigned to order, by the consignor, shall be deemed the consignee thereof; and in case of the abandonment of any merchandise to the underwriters the latter may be recognized as the consignee." CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATIVE ACT OF JUNE 10, 1890, AS AMENDED BY ACT OF AN ACT To simplify the laws in relation to the collection of the revenues. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all merchandise imported into the United States shall, for the purpose of this Act, be deemed and held to be the property of the person to whom the merchandise may be consigned; but the holder of any bill of lading consigned to order and indorsed by the consignor shall be deemed the consignee thereof; and 1890 in case of the abandonment of any merchandise to the underwriters the latter may be recognized as the consignee. SEC. 30. That this Act shall take effect on the first day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety, except so much of section twelve as provides for the appointment of nine general appraisers, which shall take effect immediately. Approved, June 10, 1890. AN ACT To amend section three thousand and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section three thousand and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes be amended to read as follows: "SEC. 3058. All merchandise imported into the United States shall, for the purpose of this title, be deemed and held to be the property of the person to whom the merchandise may be consigned; but the holder of any bill of lading consigned to order and property indorsed shall be deemed the consignee thereof; and in case of the abandonment of any merchandise to the underwriters, the latter may be recognized as the consignee; and under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may pre3058 scribe, merchandise saved from a vessel wrecked or abandoned at sea, R. S. or on or along the coasts of the United States, and promptly brought into a port of the United States by or in possession of the salvors of the same, can, for the purpose of its title, be regarded as the property of such salvors, and the valuation thereof and payment of duties thereon can be made accordingly and with due reference to the condition of the said Sec. |