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drug - or drink, knowing or having reasons to believe the 
same to be adulterated, being the owner or the agent of 
the owner, or the consignor or consignee of the owner, or in 
privity with them, assisting in such unlawful act, shall be 
deemed guiltv of a misdemeanor, and liable to prosecution 
therefor in the district court of the United States for the dis¬ 
trict into which such property is imported; and, on con¬ 
viction, such person shall be fined in a sum not exceeding 
one thousand dollars for each separate shipment, and may be 
imprisoned by the court for a term not exceeding one year, or 
both, at the discretion of the court. 
§ 3. That any article designed for consumption as human 
food or drink, and any other article of the classes or descrip¬ 
tion mentioned in this act, which shall be imported into the 
United States contrary to its provisions, shall be forfeited to 
the United States, and shall be proceeded against under the 
provisions of chapter eighteen of title thirteen of the Re¬ 
vised Statutes of the United States; and such imported prop¬ 
erty so declared forfeited may be destroyed or returned to 
the importer for exportation from the United States after 
the payment of all costs and expenses, under such regulations 
as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and the 
Secretary of the Treasury may cause such imported articles 
to be inspected or examined in order to ascertain whether 
the same have been so unlawfully imported. 
§ 4. That whenever the President is satisfied that there is 
good reason to believe that any importation is being made, 
or is about to be made, into the United States, from any 
foreign country, of any article used for human food or drink 
that is adulterated to an extent dangerous to the health or 
welfare of the people of the United States, or any of them, 
he may issue his proclamation suspending the importation of 
such articles from such country for such period of time as he 
may think necessary to prevent such importation; and 
during such period it shall be unlawful to import into the 
United States from the countries designated in the procla¬ 
mation of the President any of the articles importation of 
which is so suspended. 
§ 5. That whenever the President shall be satisfied that 
