STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1325 



SEC. 30. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the 

 collector of any district at which any ship or vessel may arrive, and 

 for the surveyor of any port where any such ship or vessel may be, 

 to put and keep on board such ship or vessel, while remaining within 

 such district, or in going from one district to another, one or more 

 inspectors to examine the cargo or contents of such ship or vessel, 

 and to superintend the delivery thereof, or of so much thereof as 

 shall be delivered within the United States; and to perform such other 

 duties according to law, as they shall be directed by the said collector 

 or surveyor to perform for the better securing the collection of the 

 duties: Provided, That collectors only shall have power to put on 

 board ships or vessels, inspectors to go from one district to another. 

 And the said inspector or inspectors shall make known to the per- 

 son having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, the duties 

 he or they is or are so to perform; and shall suffer no goods, wares 

 or merchandise to be landed or unladen from such ship or vessel, 

 without a proper permit for that purpose; and shall enter in a book 

 to be by him or each of them kept, the name or names of the person 

 or persons in whose behalf such permit was granted, together with the 

 particulars therein specified, and the marks, numbers, kinds and de- 

 scriptions of the respective packages which shall be unladed pursu- 

 ant thereto. And the wages or compensation of such inspector or 

 inspectors in going from one district to another, shall be defrayed 

 by the master or person having the charge of the vessel in which 

 they respectively go. 



SEC. 31. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for all 

 collectors, naval officers, surveyors, inspectors, and the officers of the 

 revenue cutters herein after mentioned, to go on board of ships or 

 vessels in any part of the United States, or within four leagues of 

 the coast thereof, if bound to the United States, whether in or out 

 of their respective districts, for the purposes of demanding the mani- 

 fests aforesaid, and of examining and searching the said ships or 

 vessels; and the said officers respectively shall have free access to the 

 cabin, and every other part of a ship or vessel; and if any box, trunk, 

 chest, cask, or other package, shall be found in the cabin, steerage or 

 forecastle of such ship or vessel, or in any other place separate from 

 the residue of the cargo, it shall be the duty of the said officer to take 

 a particular account of every such box, trunk, cask or package, and 

 the marks, if any there be, and a 'description thereof; and if he shall 

 judge proper to put a seal or seals on every such box, chest, trunk, 

 cask or package; and such account and description shall be by him 

 forwarded to the collector of the district to which such ship or vessel 

 is bound. And if upon her arrival at the port of her entry, the boxes, 

 trunks, chests, casks or packages so described, or any of them shall 

 be missing, or if the seals put thereon be broken, the master or com- 

 mander of such ship or vessel shall forfeit and pay for every such 

 box, trunk, chest, cask or package so missing, or of which the seals 

 shall be broken, two hundred dollars. And it shall also be lawful 

 for the inspectors who may be put on board of any ship or vessel, 

 to secure after sunset in each evening, the hatches and other communi- 

 cations with the hold of such ship or vessel, with locks or other proper 

 fastenings, which fastenings shall not be opened, broken or removed, 

 until the morning following, or after the rising of the sun, and in 

 presence of the inspector or inspectors by whom the same shall have 



