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CONGRESS. (THE TARIFF BILL.) 



purpose, such goods shall ho exempt from duty ami 

 from the- requirements relating to revenue stamps. 



Any mate-rials used in the manufacture of such 

 poods, and any packages, coverings, vessels, brands, 

 and lahels used in putting u]> the same, may, under 

 the regulations of the Secretary of the. Treasury, he 

 conveyed without the payment of revenue tax or duty 

 into any honded manufacturing warehouse, and im- 

 ported goods may, under the aforesaid regulations, he 

 transferred without the exaction of duty from any 

 honded warehouse into any honded manufacturing 

 warehouse; but this privilege shall not be held to 

 apply to implements, machinery, or apparatus to he 

 used' in the construction or repair of any honded 

 manufacturing warehouse or for the prosecution of 

 the business carried on therein. 



No articles or materials received into such honded 

 manufacturing warehouses shall be withdrawn or re- 

 moved therefrom except for direct shipment and ex- 

 portation or for transportation and immediate exporta- 

 tion in bond under the supervision of the officer duly 

 designated therefor by the collector of the port, who 

 shall certify to such shipment and exportation, or 

 ladening for transportation, as the case may be, de- 

 scribing the articles by their mark or otherwise, the 

 quantity, the date of exportation, and the name of the 

 vessel. All labor performed and services rendered 

 under these provisions shall be under the supervision 

 of a duly designated officer of the customs and at the 

 expense of the manufacturer. 



A careful account shall be kept by the collector of 

 all merchandise delivered by him to any bonded 

 manufacturing warehouse, and a sworn monthly re- 

 turn, verified ny the customs officers in charge, shall 

 be made by the manufacturers, containing a detailed 

 statement of all imported merchandise used by him 

 in the manufacture of exported articles. 



Before commencing business the proprietor of any 

 manufacturing warehouse shall tile with the Secretary 

 of the Treasury a list of all articles intended to be 

 manufactured in such warehouse, and state the formula 

 of manufacture and the name* and quantities of tiie 

 ingredients to be used therein. 



Articles manufactured under these provisions may 

 be withdrawn, under such regulations as the Secretary 

 of the Treasury may prescribe, for transportation and 

 delivery into any bonded warehouse at an exterior 

 port for the sole purpose of immediate export there- 

 from. 



The provisions of Revised Statutes 3433 shall, so far 

 as may be practicable, apply to any bonded manufac- 

 turing warehouse established under this act and to the 

 merchandise conveyed therein. 



SKC. 10. That all persons are prohibited from im- 

 porting into the United States from any foreign coun- 

 try any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, ad- 

 vertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other 

 representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other 

 material, or any east, instrument, or other article of an 

 immoral nature, or any drug or medicine, or any ar- 

 ticle whatever for the prevention of conception or for 

 causing unlawful abortion, or any lottery ticket or 

 any advertisement of any lottery. No such articles, 

 whether imported separately or contained in packages 

 with other goods entitled to entry, shall be admitted 

 to entry; and all such articles 'shall be proceeded 

 against, seized, and forfeited by due course of law. 

 All such prohibited articles, and the packages in 

 which they are contained in the course ofimportation, 

 hall be detained by the officer of customs, and pro- 

 ceedings taken against the same as hereinafter pre- 

 scribed, unless it appears to the satisfaction of the 

 collector of customs that the obscene articles contained 

 in the package were inclosed therein without th<- 

 knowledge or consent <,!' the importer, owner, agent, 

 or consignee; /'/"/ ///W, That the drugs hereinbefore 

 mentioned, when imported in hulk and not put up for 

 any purposes hereinbefore specified, are exceptcd from 

 the operation of this section. 



SEC. 11. That whoever, being an officer, agent, or 

 employee of the Government of the Tinted States. 



shall knowingly aid or abet any person engaged in 

 any violation of any of the provisions of law prohibit- 

 ing importing, advertising, dealing in, exhibiting, or 

 sending or receiving by mail, obscene or indecent 

 publications or representations, or means for prevent- 

 ing conception or procuring abortion, or other articles 

 of "immoral use or tendency, shall be deemed guilty of 

 a misdemeanor, amUshall for every offense be punish- 

 able by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, 

 or by 'imprisonment at hard labor for not more than 

 ten years, or both. 



SEC. 12. That any judge of any district or circuit 

 court of the United' States, within the proper district, 

 before whom complaint in writing of any violation of 

 the two preceding sections is made, to the satisfaction 

 of such judge, and founded on knowledge or belief, 

 and if upon belief, setting forth the grounds of such 

 belief, and supported by oath or affirmation of the 

 complainant, may issue, conformably to the Constitu- 

 tion, a warrant directed to the marshal or any deputv 

 marshal in the proper district, directing him to search 

 for, seize, and take possession of any such article or 

 thing mentioned in the two preceding sections, and to 

 make due and immediate return thereof, to the end 

 that the name may be condemned and destroyed by 

 proceedings, which shall be conducted in the same 

 manner as other proceedings in the case of municipal 

 seizure, and with the same right of appeal or writ of 

 error. 



SEC. 13. That machinery for repair may be im- 

 ported into the United States without payment of 

 duty, under bond, to be given in double the appraised 

 value thereof, to be withdrawn and exported after 

 said machinery shall have been repaired: and the 

 Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed 

 to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be 

 necessary to protect the revenue against fraud, and 

 secure the identity and character of all such importa- 

 tions when again withdrawn and exported, restricting 

 and limiting the export and withdrawal to the same 

 port of entry where imported, and also limiting all 

 bonds to a period of time of not more than six months 

 from the date of the importation. 



SEC. 14. That a discriminating duty of ten per 

 centum ad valorem, in addition to the duties imposed 

 by law, shall be levied, collected, and paid on all 

 goods, wares, or merchandise which shall be imported 

 in vessels not of the United States ; but this discrimi- 

 nating duty shall not apply to goods, wares, and 

 merchandise which shall be imported in vessels not 

 of the United States entitled, by treaty or any act of 

 Congress, to be entered in the ports of the 'United 

 States on payment of the same duties as shall then be 

 paid on goods, wares, and merchandise imported in 

 veseels of the United States. 



S i-;<:. 15. That no goods, wares, or merchandise, un- 

 less in cases provided for by treaty, shall be imported 

 into the United States from any foreign port or place, 

 except in vessels of the United States, or in such for- 

 eign vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens 

 or subjects of that country of which the goods arc the 

 growth, production, or manufacture, or from which 

 such goods, wares, or merchandise can only be, or 

 most usually are, first shipped for transportation. All 

 goods, wares, or merchandise imported contrary to 

 this section, and the vessel wherein the same shall be 

 imported, together with her caix'o. tackle, apparel, 

 and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States; 

 and such goods, wares, or merchandise, ship or ves- 

 sel, and cargo, shall be liable to be seized, prosecuted, 

 and condemned in like manner, and under the same 

 regulations, restrictions, and provisions as have been 

 heretofore! established for the recovery, collection, and 

 distribution and remission of forfeitures to the United 

 States by the several revenue laws. 



SKI;, lij. That the preceding section shall not apply 

 to vessels or iroods. wares or merchandise imported in 

 vessels of a foreign nation which docs not maintain a 

 similar regulation against vessels of the United States. 



SKC. 17. That the importation of neat cattle and the 

 hides of neat cattle from any foreign country into the 



