Volume 26
Public Law 51–252
to facilitate the collection of commercial statistics required by section two of the river and harbor appropriation acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-six and eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
Approved February 21, 1891
Statutory text
An act
to facilitate the collection of commercial statistics required by section two of the river and harbor appropriation acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-six and eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That owners, agents, masters, and clerks of vessels arriving at or departing from localities where works of river and harbor improvement are carried
Vessel owners, etc., must furnish statement.
on shall furnish, on application of the persons in local charge of the woi'ks. a comprehensive statement of vessels, passengers, freight, and tonnage.
Sec. 2.
That every person or persons offending against the provisions
Penalty.
of this act shall, for each and every offense, be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding two months,
Enforcement.
to be enforced in any district court in the United States within whose territorial jurisdiction such offense may have been committed.
Approved, February 21, 1891.