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obtained if such lading is effected between six o'clock in the morn- 

 ing and six o'clock in the evening on a day not being Sunday or a 

 statutory holiday, and if the goods, on being so landed, are imme- 

 diately stored in some such approved sufferance warehouse; and such 

 goods shall be thereafter dealt with by the proper officer of Customs 

 as prescribed by law; but nothing in this section shall affect any con- 

 tract, express or implied, between the master or owner of any such 

 vessel and the owner, shipper, or consignee of any such goods as 

 aforesaid, or the rights or liability of any person under such contract. 

 2. The Governor in Council may make similar regulations for the 

 appointment of sufferance warehouses, in which goods arriving by 

 railway may be stored before entry such goods having been duly 

 reported to the collector or proper officer of Customs. 



255. The Governor in Council may' from time to time prohibit the 

 exportation or the carrying coastwise of the following goods: arms, 

 ammunition and gunpowder, military and naval stores, and any 

 articles which the Governor in Council deems capable of being con- 

 verted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of military or 

 naval stores, or for purposes of hostility, or destruction in war, pro- 

 visions or any sort of victual which may be used as food by man; 

 and if any goods so prohibited are exported, carried coastwise, or by 

 inland navigation, or water-borne, or laden in any railway carriage 

 or other vehicle, for the purpose of being so exported or carried, they 

 shall be seized and forfeited. 



256. Any oath or declaration which the Governor in Council deems 

 necessary to protect the revenue against fraud may, in any regulation 

 made by him under this Act, be prescribed, and any person or officer 

 may be authorized to administer the same; and by any such regula- 

 tion a declaration may be substituted for an oath in any case in which 

 an oath is required by this Act. 



257. The Governor in Council may prescribe the forms of oaths 

 required under this Act; such forms may, from time to time, be re- 

 pealed or amended, and the forms of oaths authorized by statute or 

 by the Governor in Council at the time of the coming into force of 

 this Act shall continue to be the authorized forms until altered or 

 dispensed with by the Governor in Council. 



258. All general regulations made by the Governor in Council 

 under this Act, shall have effect from and after the day on which the 

 same are published in the Royal Gazette, or from and after such later 

 day as is appointed for the purpose in such regulations, and during 

 such time as is therein expressed, or if no time is expressed for that 

 purpose, then until the same are revoked or altered. 



259. The surplus, if any, of the proceeds of the sale of any vessel 

 sold for any penalty over and above the amount of the penalty, and 

 expense incurred, shall be paid to the owner of the vessel so sold, or 

 to his lawful agent or other persons entitled thereto. 



260. Chapter eight of the Consolidated Statutes (second series) 

 entitled " Of the Customs, Warehouses, Distilleries, etc.," is hereby 

 repealed. 



