STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, EULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1277 



aid of the goods in respect of which the penalty has been incurred or 

 the forfeiture has accrued, shall be deemed to be a commencement of 

 such action, suit or proceeding. 



243. Every person who desires to claim anything seized after pro- 

 ceedings for condemnation thereof have been commenced, shall file his 

 claim in the office of the Clerk of the Court; and such claim shall 

 state the name, residence and occupation or calling of the person 

 making it, and shall be accompanied by an affidavit of the claimant 

 or his agent having a knowledge of the facts, setting forth the nature 

 of the claimant's title to the thing seized. 



244. Before any such claim can be filed the claimants shall give 

 security to the satisfaction of the Court or a judge thereof by bond 

 in a penal sum of not less than two hundred dollars, or by a deposit 

 of money not less than that sum, for the payment of the costs of the 

 proceedings for condemnation. 



245. No claim to anything seized under this Act and returned 

 into Her Majesty's Courts for adjudication shall be admitted, unless 

 such claim be entered in the name of the owner, with his residence 

 and occupation, nor unless oath to the property in such thing be made 

 by the owner, or by his attorney or agent, by whom such claim shall 

 be entered, to the best of his knowledge and belief ; and any person 

 making a false oath thereto shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and be liable to the pains and penalties to which persons guilty of a 

 misdemeanor are ordinarily liable. 



246. In all cases in which no fine, penalty or forfeiture is imposed or 

 provided for by this Act for a breach or violation of any of the provi- 

 sions thereof, all persons offending against the same in any way shall 

 forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, to be 

 recovered and appropriated in like manner as other fines and penal- 

 ties are under this Act. 



247. All seizures, prosecutions or suits for the recovery or enforce- 

 ment of any of the penalties or forfeitures imposed by this Act, or 

 any other law relating to the Customs, may be made or commenced 

 at any time within three years after the offence was committed or 

 the cause of prosecution or suit arose, but not afterwards. 



248. An appeal shall lie from a conviction by any Magistrate, 

 Judge, Justice or Justices of the Peace under this Act, in the manner 

 provided by law from convictions in cases in summary conviction, 

 on the appellant furnishing security by bond or by recognizance, 

 with two sureties, to the satisfaction of such Magistrate, Judge, Jus- 

 tice or Justices of the Peace, to abide the event of such appeal. 



753 249. If the appeal is brought by Her Majesty's Attorney 

 General, or a collector or officer of the Customs, it shall not be 

 necessary for him to give any security on such appeal. 



250. In any case in which proceedings have been instituted in any 

 Court against any vessel, vehicle, goods or things, for the enforcement 

 of any penalty or forfeiture under this Act, or any law relating to 

 the Customs, trade or navigation, the execution of any decision or 

 judgment for restoring the thing to the claimant thereof shall not be 

 suspended by reason of any appeal from such decision or judgment 

 if the claimant gives sufficient security, approved of by the Court or 

 a Judge thereof, to render and deliver the thing in question, or the 

 full value thereof, to the appellant in case the decision or judgment 

 so appealed from is reversed. 



