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shall incur a penalty of eight hundred dollars; and the vessel may 

 be detained until such penalty is paid ; and unless payment is made 

 within thirty days, such vessel may, after the expiration of such 

 delay, be sold to pay such penalty, and any expenses incurred in 

 making the seizure and in- the safe keeping and sale of such vessel. 



123. If any goods are unlawfully imported on the person or as 

 luggage or among the luggage of any one arriving in this Colony, 

 such goods shall be seized and forfeited. 



124. No entry, and no warrant for the landing of any goods, or 

 for the taking of any goods, out of any warehouse, as herein pro- 

 vided, shall be deemed valid, unless the particulars of the goods and 

 packages in such entry or warrant correspond with the particulars 

 of the goods and packages purporting to be the same, in the report 

 of the vessel, or other report, where any is required, by which the 

 importation or entry thereof is authorized, nor unless the goods have 

 been properly described in such entry by the denominations and with 

 the characters and circumstances according to which such goods are 

 charged with duty or may be imported; and any goods taken or 

 delivered 'out of any vessel or out of any warehouse, or conveyed 

 into this Colony beyond the port or place of entry, by virtue of any 

 entry or warrant not corresponding with the facts in all such re- 

 spects or not properly describing the goods, shall be deemed to be 

 goods, landed or taken without due entry thereof, and shall be seized 

 and forfeited; and the collector or proper officer after the entry of 

 any goods, may, on suspicion of fraud, open and examine any pack- 

 age of such goods, in the presence of two or more credible witnesses, 

 and if, upon examination the same are found to agree with the en- 

 tries, they shall be repacked by such collector or proper officer, at 

 the public cost, but otherwise they shall be seized and forfeited. 



125. Any package of which the importer or his agent declares the 

 contents to be unknown to him, may be opened and examined by the 

 collector or other proper officer, in the presence of such importer or 

 agent, and at the expense of the importer, who shall also bear the 

 expense of repacking and all cost of carriage of the same. 



12G. The collector or other proper officer may cause at least one 

 package in every invoice or entry and at least one package in ten if 

 there are more than ten in any invoice or entry, and so many more 

 as he deems it expedient to examine for the protection of the rev- 

 enue, to be sent to the examining warehouse, and there to be opened, 

 examined and appraised the package so to be opened being desig- 

 nated by the collector or other proper officer. 



127. If any goods are found in any package which are not men- 

 tioned in the invoice or entry, such goods shall be seized and for- 

 feited, and if such goods are not found, but the value thereof has 

 been ascertained, the owner, importer or other person who has made 

 entry or caused to be made entry of such package, and who neglects 

 on receipt of such package to immediately make report and entry of 

 such inclosure, shall forfeit the value thereof. 



128. If any goods are found which do not correspond with the 

 goods described in the invoice or entry, or if the description in the 

 invoice or entry has been made for the purpose of avoiding payment 

 of the duty or of any part of the duty on such goods, or if in any 

 entry any goods have been undervalued for such purpose as afore- 

 said, such goods shall be seized and forfeited. 



