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under this Act, before the same have been declared by competent 

 authority to have been seized without due cause, and without the 

 permission of the officer or person who seized the same or of some 

 competent authority, shall be deemed to have stolen such goods, being 

 the property of Her Majesty, and is guilty of felony. 



222. Every person who, under any pretence, either by actual assault, 

 force or violence, or by threats of such assault, "force or violence, 

 in any way resists, opposes, molests or obstructs any officer of Cus- 

 toms, or any person acting in his aid or assistance, in the discharge 

 of his or their duty, under the authority of this Act, or any other 

 law in force in this Colony relating to Customs, trade or navigation, 

 or who wilfully or maliciously shoots at or attempts to destroy 

 or damage any vessel belonging to Her Majesty, or in the service of 

 this Colony, or maims or wounds any officer of the army, navy, 

 marine or Customs, or any person acting in aid or assistance of such 

 officer, while duly employed for the prevention of smuggling, and in 

 execution of his or their duty, and every person who is found with 

 any goods liable to seizure or forfeiture, under this Act, or any other 

 law relating to Customs, trade or navigation, and carrying offensive 

 arms or weapons, or in any way disguised and every person who 

 staves, breaks or in any way destroys any such goods, before or after 

 the actual seizure thereof, or scuttles, sinks or cuts adrift any vessel, 

 or destroys or injures any vehicle or animal, before or after the 

 seizure, or wilfully and maliciously destroys or injures, by fire, or 

 otherwise, any Custom house, or any building whatsoever in which 

 seized, forfeited or bonded goods are deposited or kept, is guilty of 

 felony. 



223. Every master or person in charge of any vessel, and every 

 driver or person conducting or having charge of any vehicle or con- 

 veyance who refuses to stop such vessel, vehicle or conveyance when 

 required so to do, in the Queen's name, by an officer of Customs or 

 person employed as such, and every person who is present at any 

 such seizure or stoppage and who, when called upon in the Queen's 

 name by such officer or person to aid and assist him in a lawful way, 

 refuses so to do, shall be liable, on summary conviction before two 

 Justices of the Peace to a penalty of two hundred dollars, and, in 

 default of payment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six 

 months. 



224. If any person offers for sale any goods under pretence that 

 the same are prohibited, or have been unshipped and run on shore, 

 or brought in by land or otherwise, without payment of duties, all 

 such goods, although not liable to any duties or prohibited, shall be 

 seized and forfeited, and every person who offers the same for sale 

 shall be liable, on summary conviction before two Justices of the 

 Peace, to a penalty of two hundred dollars, or to a penalty equal 

 to treble the value of such goods, at the election of the prosecutor, 

 and, in default of payment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 

 sixty days. 



225. Every person required by this Act or by any other law 



751 to answer questions put to him by any officer of the Customs, 



who refuses to answer or does not truly answer such questions, 



shall, in addition to any other penalty or punishment to which he is 



liable, incur a penalty of four hundred dollars. 



