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THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 101, 102. 1857. 199 ment of the said circuit court; but on any appeal to said circuit court from one of the said district courts, the judge of the [district court from which such appeal was taken shall not sit in said circuit court on the trial or decision of the case so caxried by appeal to said circuit court. The clerk of the circuit court for the present district of Missouri shall Cl°¤’k· be and remain the clerk of the circuit court as modified by this act. D_ i_ t Att The district attorney and marshal for said eastern district of Missouri iieyjs mc °r` shall act as such district attorney and marshal in said circuit court; Mmhar but the process of said circuit court may be directed to the marshal of either of said eastern and western districts of Missouri, and shall be executed only by the marshal to whom it is directed, or by his duly appointed deputy, in his district. Approved, March 3, 1857. Can. CI.——An Act to amend the"Act reducing the on Imports, and for other Pur- March 3, 1857. poses," passed July thiitieth, eighteen hu red and f1rly—st2J. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the eighth section of the act approved July thirty, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and entitled "A.n 1846*_°h' ud 8‘ act reducing the duty on imports, and for other purposes,” be amended as V°1' 1X' p' 43‘ follows: Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the owner, Additions may consignee, or agent of imports which have been actually purchased, or be made to the procured otherwise than by purchase, on entry of the same, to make such VNU? °f §°°dS in addition in the entry to the cost or value given in the invoice as, in his mlm8s` opinion, may raise the same to the true market value of such imports in the principal markets of the country whence the importation shall have been made; and to add thereto all costs and charges which, under existing laws, would form part of the true value at the port where the same may Additional be entered, upon which the duties should be assessed. And it shall be duty on goods the duty of the collector within whose district the same may be imported gggirctggigiger or entered, to cause the dutiable value of such imports to be appraised,` estimated, and ascertained, in accordance with the provisions of existing laws; and if the appraised value thereof shall exceed, by ten per centum or more, the value so declared on the entry, then, in addition to the duties imposed by law on the same, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a Duty never to duty of twenty per centum ad valorem on such appraised value: Provided, be Msesscé <>¤_ nevertheless, That under no circumstances shall the duty be assessed upon lf5U3m" "“'°*°° an amount less than the invoice or entered value, any law of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, March 3, 1857. Cas?. CII.—An Act to constitute Selma, in the State of Alabama, a Port ofDelive1y. March 3, 1857. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Uongress assembled, That Selma, in the State of Sg]mg,' ( A19__) Alabama, shall be and is hereby constituted a port of delivery within the made ¤ vm of collection district of New Orleans; and there shall be appointed a sur- d°hv°ry` veyor of customs, to reside at said port, who shall, in addition to his own P°“’ p' 260 duties, perform the duties and receive the salary and emolnments prescribed by the act of Congress, approved on the second of March, eighteen 183, ch 8, i 6 hundred and thirt -one for importinrr m r h ndise into Pitt bur Wh 1- ’· I i I _ Y r P ¤ Q C 3 S gv 86 Vol. iv. p. 481. mg, and other places. Approved, March 3, 1857.