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CIRCULAR TO COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS. TRAASURY DEPART MBit, April 8, 1844. Sir: I herewith transmit a copy of an act approved on the 2d instant, entitled " An act directing the disposition of certain unclaimed goods, wares or merchandise, seized for being illegally imported into the United States," the design of which is to diminish the costs and charges incident to the seizure of articles of the value of one hundred dollars or less. Whenever the goods, wares or merchandise seized as illegally imported, shall m your opinion, or that of the principal officer making the seizure, be of the value of one ; hundred dollars or less, you will cause to be prepared in duplicate a list containing a particular description of them, and an appraisement. to be made in the manner pointed out in the act; you will transmit a copy of such list and appraisement to the Secretary of the Treasury, endorsing thereon the section of the law supposed to be violated ; and, also, the names of the persons or officers entitled to a distributive portion of the pro- ; ceeds of the articles if condemned or unclaimed, and the shares to which they will be severally entitled.. One of the duplicate lists you will of course retain, and the other when claim is made you will transmit to the United States district attorney for the dis- trict, that he may proceed thereon in the ordinary manner prescribed by law. If, on the appraisement of the goods, wares and merchandise seized, the appraisers shall value or appraise the same above the sum of one hundred dollars, you will pro- ceed no farther under the act, but according to law, as in the case of the seizure of goods, &c. above the value of one hundred dollars. I also transmit the form of the bond required by the act from those making claim to goods, &c. seized as illegally imported. You will take care that the list or schedule, the form of which is endorsed upon the form of the bond sent you, is signed by the claimant in the presence of the witnesses of the bond, and attested by them. When you have received the avails of any sale of the goods, wares or merchandise seized under this act, you will at once place the same to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States in the depository of the Treasury in which you usually deposite the public moneys received by you, and advise this Department of the fact. If there be no such depository, you will immediately advise this Department of the amount of the avails received, and the expenses of the proceedings, stating particularly the seizure on account of which such avails were received; and instructions respecting the disposition of them will be given to you. _.. You will carefully follow all the other provisions of the act, in regard to which it is not considered necessary to furnish special directions. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. C. SPENCER, Secretary of the Treasury. $10 00 720 00 40 00 a ) a B. tion of the goods, wares, or n a claim to which the within bond is given, to wit : do. , marked E. F., + + do. ' "\ ~ ihe OR at er Eh td a i Re rR ae t One box of segars, marked A. B., X X appraised at One _ do. sugar, marked C. D., 111 | list is correct The foregoin } Astost C. D. E. F merchandise," seized, A List or Schedule, " Se a particular descrip One piece woollen clot To Ksq., Collector of the Customs.