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''Art. 9. To everyforeignvessel, with its tackle and apparel and cargo, 

 wliicli may be detected anchored in any of the ports not open to entry 

 in any roadstead, bay, creek^ or river, without permit from some 

 custom-house, for the purpose of receiving cargo of the produce of the 

 country in conformity with the exportation law. 



"Art. 10. To every national or foreign vesssel which may prove to 

 have made a voyage from the ports or coasts of the republic to any foreign 

 point without a lawful clearance, and to every vessel, national or for- 

 eign, that may prove to have sailed directly from foreign ports to a 

 point or to a port on the coast not open to entry for importation." 



Article first of the law of the 28th of April, 1854: ''Immediately 

 as a vessel will have moored in any of the ports open to foreign trade, 

 it shall be visited by the collector, or by such deputy appointed to that 

 end, and by the chief of inspectors, where such shall be employed, 

 accompanied by a chief and one, or more than one, inspector. If the 

 vessel should have come from a foreign port and with a cargo, the 

 captain shall be held to exhibit his letter of clearance and the manifest 

 of the cargo, on which must be stated the name of the vessel, the nation 

 to which it belongs, the captain's name, that of the port or point from 

 which it comes, the number of packages which make up the cargo, 

 specifying whether they are boxes, barrels, trunks, hogsheads, &c.; 

 stating, also, the numbers and marks, and the port for which the 

 articles are intended, the number of the consignees, in accordance with 

 the bills of landing that may have been signed. There shall, besides, 

 be appended to the manifest a list of the ship's provisions and the other 

 stores on board, for sails, rigging, and other uses of the same. After 

 the visit, one or more than one inspector will remain on board. If the 

 vessel shall have come on ballast, the captain will merely be required 

 to exhibit his clearance and a detailed list of the provisions and stores 

 for ship use, and a formal and rigorous examination shall be had to 

 ascertain whether she really sails a ballast." 



We further invoke the authority of all the other articles of this law, 

 a compliance with which can only be enforced in ports open for foreign 

 trade. Equally applicable are those which have force in relation to 

 all the requirements which it prescribes as to the manner of carrying 

 on exportation, and especially that article of the law of May 6, 1833, 

 as follows : 



"Art. 1. No growth or production of any kind, intended for foreign 

 countries or ports, shall be exported except from ports open to foreign 

 commerce." 



The law of the 11th of May, 1854, upon maritime inspection, amend- 

 ing the law of 1843^, which contains a like provision, makes it the duty 

 of the revenue cutters to observe the following requirement of the sixth 

 article : 



"It shall be the duty of the captains of the revenue cutters to take 

 to the nearest port of entry — 



"1st. All foreign vessels, which they may find in any ports not 

 opened to foreign commerce, having on board goods, growths, and 

 products of any kind." 



"4th. All national or foreign vessels, navigating from our coasts to 

 any foreign port, with or without cargo ; provided that they shall 



