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described in the two sections next preceding, shall incur a penalty 

 equal in amount to the value of the goods represented in such invoice, 

 and the goods shall also be seized and forfeited. 



214. If any entry passed at any Custom House is false in any par- 

 ticular to the knowledge of any person connected with the making 

 thereof, all the packages and goods included or pretended to be in- 

 cluded, or which ought to have been included in such entry, shall 

 be forfeited. 



215. If any warehoused goods are concealed in or unlawfully re- 

 moved from any Customs warehouse in this Colony, such goods 

 shall be seized and forfeited; and every person who conceals or un- 

 lawfulty removes any such goods, or aids or abets such concealment 

 or removal, shall incur the penalties imposed on persons illegally 

 importing or smuggling goods into this Colony; and on the discovery 

 of such concealment or removal, all goods belonging to the importer 

 or owner of the concealed or removed goods, then remaining in the 

 same or any other warehouse, shall be placed under detention until 

 the duty payable on the goods so concealed or removed, and all pen- 

 alties incurred by him have been paid ; and if such duties and penal- 

 ties are not paid within one month after the discovery of the conceal- 

 ment or removal of such goods, the goods so detained shall be dealt 

 with in the same manner as goods unlawfully imported or smuggled 

 into this Colony. 



216. If the importer or owner of any warehoused goods, or any 

 person in his employ, by any contrivance, opens the warehouse in 

 which the goods are or gains access to the goods except in the pres- 

 ence of or with the express permission of the proper officer of the 

 Customs, such importer or owner shall, for every such offence, incur 

 a penalty of one hundred dollars. 



217. Every person who, by any contrivance, gains access to bonded 

 goods in a railway car, or to goods in a railway car. upon which 

 goods the Customs duties have not been paid, or delivers such bonded 

 or other goods without the express permission of the proper officer 

 of Customs, shall, for every such offence, be liable to imprisonment 

 for a term not exceeding one year, and not less than one month. 



218. Every person w r ho wilfully alters, defaces or obliterates any 

 mark placed by any officer of Customs on any package of warehoused 

 goods, or goods in transit shall, for every such offence, incur a penalty 

 of five hundred dollars. 



219. Every person who makes any entry outwards of goods from 

 warehouse for exportation, and who is not the owner or duly author- 

 ized by the owner thereof, or the master of the vessel by which they 

 are to be shipped, shall incur a penalty of two hundred dollars. 



220. Every person who counterfeits, falsifies, or uses when so coun- 

 terfeited or falsified, any paper or document required under this Act. 

 or for any purpose therein mentioned, whether written, printed or 

 otherwise, or by any false statement procures such document, know- 

 ing the same to be so forged or counterfeited, or forges or counter- 

 feits any certificate relating to any oath or declaration or affirmation 

 hereby required or authorized, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



221. Every person who, whether pretending to be the owner or not, 

 either secretly or openly, and whether with or without force or 

 violence, takes or carries away any Broods, vessel, vehicle, or other 

 thing which have been seized or detained on suspicion, as forfeited 



