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States from any foreign port or place, shall depart or attempt to 

 depart from the same, unless to proceed on her way to some more 

 interior district to which she may be bound, before report or entry 

 shall have been made by the master or other person having the 

 charge or command of such ship or vessel, with the collector of some 

 district of the United States, the said master or other person having 

 such charge or command shall forfeit and pay the sum of four hun- 

 dred dollars. And it shall be lawful for any collector, naval officer, 

 surveyor, or commander of any of the cutters herein after mentioned, 

 to arrest and bring back, or cause to be arrested and brought back, 

 such ship or vessel, to such port of the United States to which it may 

 be most conveniently done. Provided, that if it shall be made to 

 appear by the oath of the said master or other person having the 

 cnarge or command of such ship or vessel, and of the person next in 

 command, or other sufficient proof to the satisfaction of the collector 

 of the district within which such ship or vessel shall afterwards come, 

 or to the satisfaction of the court in which the prosecution for such 

 penalty may be had, that the said departure, or attempt to depart, 

 was occasioned by distress of weather, pursuit or duress of enemies, 

 or other necessity, the said penalty shall not be incurred. 



SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, that within twenty-four 

 780 hours after the arrival of any ship or vessel from any port or 

 place, at any port of the United States established by law, at 

 which an officer of the customs resides, or within any harbor, inlet 

 or creek thereof, if the hours of business at the office of the chief 

 officer of the customs at such port will permit, or as soon thereafter 

 as the said hours will permit, the master or other person having the 

 charge or command of such ship or vessel, shall repair to the said 

 office, and shall make report to the said chief officer of the arrival of 

 the said ship or vessel ; and within forty-eight hours after such ar- 

 rival, shall make a further report to the collector of the district in 

 which such port may be, of the name, burthen and lading of such 

 ship or vessel, whether in packages or stowed loose, and or the par- 

 ticular marks, numbers and contents of each package, and the place 

 or places, person or persons to or for which or whom they are re- 

 spectively consigned or destined, also of the place or places where 

 she took in her lading, of what country built, from what foreign 

 port or place she last sailed, who was master or commander of her dur- 

 ing the voyage, who is at the time of such report master or commander 

 other, and (if a vessel of the United States) who are owners of her; 

 unless the whole of such information required on the second report 

 as aforesaid, shall have been given at the time of making the first 

 report, in which case it shall not be necessary to make a further re 

 port. And in the cases in which the master or person having the 

 charge or command of any ship or vessel herein before required 

 to have on board at the time of her departure from such foreign port 

 or place for the United States, a manifest or manifests of the lading 

 of such ship or vessel, or of any part thereof, the said master or per- 

 son having the said charge or command shall, at the time of making 

 the said report, deliver the said manifest or manifests to the col- 

 lector to whom the said report shall be made, and shall declare to the 

 truth of such manifest or manifests, as the same ought to be, in 

 conformity to the directions of this Act. And the said master or 

 person having the charge or command of any such ship or vessel, 



