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129. All the packages mentioned in any one entry, although some 

 of such packages have been delivered to the importer, or some one 

 on his behalf, shall be subject to the control of the Customs authori- 

 ties of the port at which they are entered, until such of the packages 

 as have been sent to the examining warehouse for examination have 

 been duly opened and the contents examined and approved ; and the 

 packages so delivered shall not be opened or unpacked before the 

 goods contained in the package or packages sent to the examining 

 warehouses have been examined and passed as aforesaid, under a 

 penalty equal to the value of the contents of the packages so deliv- 

 ered or the seizure and forfeiture of the goods: Provided always, 

 that this prohibition shall not extend beyond a period of three days 

 after the goods designated for examination have been actually de- 

 livered at the examining warehouse. 



130. Any package delivered without examination, or the goods, if 

 lawfully unpacked, shall, if required by the collector of Customs 



of the port at which they are entered, be returned to the Cus- 

 744 toms or examining warehouse within ten days of -delivery, 



under a penalty equal to the value thereof; and the collector 

 shall use due diligence in causing a proper examination thereof to 

 be made, and may, if he sees no objection, permit the remaining 

 packages to be opened and unpacked as soon as the contents of those 

 .sent to the Customs or examining warehouse have been examined and 

 approved. 



131. The collector may require from the importer (or from his 

 agent or from the consignor or his agent) of any goods charged with 

 duty, or exempt from duty or conditionally exempt therefrom, before 

 admitting the said goods to entry, such further proof as he deems 

 necessary, by oath or declaration, production of invoice or invoices 

 or bills of lading or otherwise, that such goods are properly described 

 and rated for duty, or come properly within the meaning of such 

 exemptions. 



132. When any person has occasion to remove, from any port of 

 entry to any other port or place, any goods duly entered, and on 

 which the duties imposed by law have been paid, the collector or 

 principal officer of the Customs at such port, on the requisition in 

 writing of such person, within thirty days after the entry of such 

 goods, specifying the particular goods to be removed and the pack- 

 ages in which such goods are contained, with their marks and num- 

 bers, shall give a permit or certificate in writing signed by him, 

 bearing date of the day it is made, and containing the like particu- 

 lars, and certifying that such goods have been duly entered at such 

 port and the duties paid thereon, and stating the port or place at 

 which the same were paid, and the port or place to which it is in- 

 tended to convey them, and the mode of conveyance, and the period 

 within which they are intended to be so conveyed. 



133. The following goods shall not be imported into this Colony 

 under the penalty of one hundred dollars, and, if imported, shall 

 be forfeited and forthwith destroyed, together with the parcel or 

 package of goods in which the same may be found, that is to say : 

 Books, drawings, pictures, figures, models, paintings and printings 

 of an immoral or indecent character, or base or counterfeit coin. 



134. The owner or agent of all steamships, regularly employed in 

 a conveyance of passengers inwards or otherwise, shall provide a 



