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Sec. 3. The cities of San Juan, Ponce, and Mayaguez are hereby designated as 

 ports of entry for any and all of said articles, and it shall be unlawful to enter 

 the same at any other port or place. 



Sec 4. The governor is authorized to appoint suitable persons as inspectors, 

 and shall from time to time issue such further and additional rules and regula- 

 tions as may in his opinion be necessary for the guidance of said inspectors and 

 the carrying out of the purpose of this act. Such inspectors shall have full 

 power and authority to enter during reasonable hours any depot, warehouse, 

 freight wharf, transfer, steamship, or express office, or other building or prem- 

 ises, and shall be allowed full access to all way bills, manifests, invoices, or bills 

 of lading therein, whenever, in the opinion of said inspector, the same is neces- 

 sary to determine the presence or record of any shipment of the nature desig- 

 nated in this act. 



Sec. 5. No steamship, railway, express company, or other common carrier, or 

 any person, firm, or corporation shall bring into the island of Porto Rico any of 

 the articles above mentioned without the specified certificate attached, and each 

 of such shipments shall be fully set forth in the manifest, w^ay bills, invoices, or 

 bills of lading of the importing company, specifying where and from whom such 

 shipment was received and to whom consigned. Upon the arrival at any of the 

 ports of entry herein designated, such common carrier shall notify the inspector 

 of the arrival of such goods, and the same shall be held by said common carrier 

 until the inspector has investigated such shipment and give written permission 

 for its removal. In case any common carrier violates the provision of this sec- 

 tion, then the general manager of such common carrier or the captain of such 

 offending vessel shall be deemed guilty, and, upon convicton, punished in the 

 manner hereinafter provided. 



Sec 6. Every transportation company, common carrier, person, firm, or 

 corporation shall immediately notify the inspector at the nearest port of entry, 

 when by oversight, negligence, or otherwise any shipments of the nature desig- 

 nated in section 1 of this act, without a proper certificate attached, shall arrive 

 at any station or wharf owned or operated by said company within the island of 

 Porto Rico, and it shall be the duty of such inspector to proceed as speedily as 

 possible to investigate such shipment. If, upon investigation, he find the ship- 

 ment to be of the nature herein designated, and to have been made without hav- 

 ing first procured the proper certificate, he shall order the same removed from 

 the island of Porto Rico, and upon failure of the owner or shipper to remove 

 same within forty-eight hours after notice to do so said shipment shall be seized 

 and burned. 



Sec 7. Any person or persons, firm, corporation, company, or common car- 

 rier violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided for in sec- 

 tion 16 of the Penal Code of Porto Rico of 1902 ; and any person who shall refuse 

 to comply with the instructions of an inspector, or shall hinder or obstruct, or 

 offer to hinder or obstruct, any inspector in the discharge of his duties, shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished as pro- 

 vided for in said section 16, above referred to. 



• Sec. 8. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, there is 

 hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appro- 

 priated, for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1906, the sum of five hundred dol- 

 lars ($500.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary. 



Sec 9. This law shall take effect on and after May first, 1905. 



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