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before a clearance shall be granted for any such vessel, the master of every such vessel, and the owners, shippers, and consignors, of the cargo, shall state, upon oath or affirmation, to the collector, the foreign place or country in which such cargo is truly intended to be landed; and the said oaths or affirmation shall be taken and subscribed in writing.

. And be it further enacted, That every collector shall keep an accurate account of the national characters and tonnage of all vessels which depart from his district for foreign countries, and of the foreign places or countries for which such vessels depart; and, also, an accurate account of the national characters and tonnage of all vessels which enter his district from foreign countries, and of the foreign places or countries from which such vessels arrive.

. And be it further enacted, That the several collectors shall make quarter yearly returns to the register of the treasury, of all the facts and masters which they are hereby required to ascertain.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall give such directions to the collectors, and prescribe such rules and forms to be observed by them, as may appear to him proper for attaining the objects of this act: Provided, That such directions or rules shall not be contrary to the provisions of any law of the United States.

. And be it further enacted, That the forms of the annual statements hereby required shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall prescribe such forms as may be proper to exhibit the facts hereby required to be stated in the clearest manner, and to show the actual state of commerce and navigation between the United States and foreign countries in each year.

. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from the thirtieth day of September next.

, February 10, 1820.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the duties which have been accrued, or may accrue fo the United States, upon the importation of a statue of George Washington, by order, and for the use, of the State of North Carolina, be, and they are hereby remitted.

, February 24, 1820.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “,” and the, passed on the twenty-fourth of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four, and the act, entitled “,” be, and the same are hereby, extended to the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, unless sooner repealed.

, February 28, 1820.