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penalty, or forfeiture, or the refund of any duties, in case the amount involved is not less than one thousand dollars, the applicant shall notify the district attorney and the col lector of customs of the district in which the duties, fine, penalty, or forfeiture accrued; and it shall be the duty of such collector and district attorney to furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury all practicable information necessary to enable him to protect the interests of the United States.

187. Limitation of time.

Whenever any goods, wares, and merchandise shall have been entered and passed free of duty, and whenever duties upon any imported goods, wares, and merchandise shall have been liquidated and paid, and such goods, wares, and merchandise shall have been delivered to the owner, importer, agent, or consignee, such entry and passage free of duty and such settlement of duties shall, after the expiration of one year from the time of entry, in the absence of fraud and in the absence of protest by the owner, importer, agent, or consignee, be final and conclusive upon all parties.

June 22, 1874.

Sec. 21.

No suit or action to recover any pecuniary penalty or for- Sec. 22. feiture of property accruing under the customs revenue laws of the United States shall be instituted unless such suit or action shall be commenced within three years after the time when such penalty or forfeiture shall have accrued:

Provided, That the time of the absence from the United States of the person subject to such penalty or forfeiture, or of any concealment or absence of the property, shall not be reckoned within this period of limitation.

188. Bonded warehouses.

Sec. 24

The Secretary of the Treasury shall, from time to time, June 22, 1874. make such regulations as he may deem necessary for the conduct and management of the bonded warehouses, general-order stores, and other depositories of the imported merchandise throughout the United States; all regulations or orders issued by collectors of customs in regard thereto shall be subject to revision, alteration, or revocation by him; and no warehouse shall be bonded and no generalorder store established without his authority and approval. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, in granting permits to establish general-order warehouses, to require such warehouse or warehouses to be located contiguous, or as near as may be, to the landing places of steamers and vessels from foreign ports; and no officer of the customs shall have any personal ownership of, or interest in, any bonded warehouse or general-order store.

Public cartage of merchandise in the custody of the Sec. 25. Government shall be let after not less than thirty days' notice of such letting to lowest responsible bidder giving sufficient security, and shall be subject to regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury.

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R. S., 3094.

189. Oaths of masters and owners.

Nothing contained in this Title [R. S., 2517-3094] shall be construed to exempt the masters or owners of vessels from making and subscribing any oaths required by any laws of the United States not immediately relating to the collection of the duties on the importation of merchandise into the United States.

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PART XV.-ENTRY OF MERCHANDISE.

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215. Entry of merchandise for different port of destination.

216. Comparison of cargo and manifest. 217. Collection of duties.

218. Permit to deliver.

| 219. Preliminary entry and unlading. 220. Illegal unlading.

221. Special permit to unlade by night.
222. Unlading by day.

223. Supervision of unlading.
224. Limit of time for unlading.

225. Weighing, gauging, and measuring.
226. Unlading of wine and spirits.
227. Post entry.

228. Returns of unlading of cargo.
229. Vessels in distress.

230. Obstruction by ice.

231. Unlawful removal of bonded merchandise.

232. Transportation in bond.

233. Transportation to special ports. 234. Immediate delivery.

235. Immediate transportation.

236. Salvage of merchandise.

237. Bond of firm or partnership.
238. Refund of customs duties.

239. Fraudulent importation of mer

chandise.

240. Bribery and solicitation of bribes. 241. Express packages.

242. Liens for freight or general average.

The word "merchandise," as used in this Title [R. S., R. S., 2766. 2517-3129], may include goods, wares, and chattels of every description capable of being imported.

The word "port," as used in this Title [R. S., 2517-3129], R. S., 2767. may include any place from which merchandise can be shipped for importation, or at which merchandise can be imported.

The word "master," as used in this Title [R. S., 2517- R. S., 2768. 3129], may include any person having the chief charge or command of the employment and navigation of a vessel.

In cases where the forms of official documents, as pre- R. S., 2769. scribed by this Title [R. S., 2517-3129], shall be substantially complied with and observed, according to the true intent thereof, no penalty or forfeiture shall be incurred by a deviation therefrom.

R. S., 2770.

R. S. 2771.

R. S., 2772.

R. S., 2774.

R. S., 2775.

191. Ports of entry.

It shall not be lawful to make entry of any vessel which shall arrive within the United States, from any foreign port, or of the cargo on board such vessel, elsewhere than at one of the ports of entry designated in chapter one [R. S., 2517-2612] of this Title R. S., 2517-3129]; nor to unlade the cargo, or any part thereof, elsewhere than at one of the ports of delivery therein designated, except that every port of entry shall be also a port of delivery. This section shall not prevent the master or commander of any vessel from making entry with the collector of any district in which such vessel may be owned, or from which she may have sailed on the voyage from which she shall then have returned.

[For list of ports of entry and delivery see paragraph 430.]

Vessels which are not vessels of the United States shall be admitted to unlade only at ports of entry established by law; and no such vessel shall be admitted to make entry in any other district than in the one in which she shall be admitted to unlade.

192. Vessels bound to port of delivery.

The master of every vessel bound to a port of delivery only, in any district, shall first come to at the port of entry of such district, with his vessel, and there make report and entry in writing, and pay all duties required by law, port fees and charges, before such vessel shall proceed to her port of delivery. Any master of a vessel who shall proceed to a port of delivery contrary to such directions shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars, to be recovered with costs of suit.

193. Report and declaration of master.

Within twenty-four hours after the arrival of any vessel, from any foreign port, 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 such hours will permit, the master shall repair to such office, and make report to the chief officer, of the arrival of the vessel; and he shall, within forty-eight hours after such arrival, make a further report in writing, to the collector of the district, which report shall be in the form, and shall contain all the particulars required to be inserted in, and verified like, a manifest. Every master who shall neglect or omit to make either of such reports and declarations, or to verify any such declaration as required, or shall not fully comply with the true intent and meaning of this section, shall, for each offense, be liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars.

The master of any vessel having on board distilled spirits, or wines, shall, within forty-eight hours after his arrival,

whether the same be at the first port of arrival of such vessel or not, in addition to the requirements of the preceding section, report in writing to the surveyor or officer acting as inspector of the revenue of the port at which he has arrived, the foreign port from which he last sailed, the name of his vessel, his own name, the tonnage and denomination of such vessel, and to what nation belonging, together with the quantity and kinds of spirits and wines, on board of the vessel, particularizing the number of casks, vessels, cases, or other packages containing the same, with their marks and numbers, as also the quantity and kinds of spirits and wines, on board such vessel as sea-stores, and in default thereof he shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars and any spirits omitted to be reported shall be forfeited.

If any vessel, having arrived within the limits of any collection district, from any foreign port, departs, or attempts 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 with the collector of some district, the master shall be liable to a penalty of four hundred dollars; and any collector, naval officer, surveyor, or commander of any revenue cutter may cause such vessel to be arrested and brought back to the most convenient port of the United States. If, however, it is made to appear by the oath of the master, and of the person next in command, or by other sufficient proof to the satisfaction of the collector of the district within which such vessel shall afterward come, or to the satisfaction of the court in which the prosecution for such penalty may be had, that the departure or attempt to depart was occa sioned by stress of weather, pursuit or duress of enemies, or other necessity, the penalty imposed by this section shall not be incurred.

194. Special inward manifest for Treasury Department.

R. S., 2773.

Mar. 2, 1895.

Each master of a vessel arriving in the United States from a foreign port except vessels carrying traffic in bond Sec. 9. on transfer ferries shall, immediately upon landing and before entering his vessel at the custom-house, mail to the Auditor for the Treasury Department, Washington, a true copy of the manifest of his vessel, and shall on entering his vessel make affidavit that he has mailed such copy and that the same is true and correct; and he shall also mail to the said Auditor a true copy of the corrected manifest filed on any post entry of his vessel. Any master who neglects or refuses to mail to the Auditor the required copy of the original or corrected manifest shall be subject to the same fines and penalties fixed by law for his failure to deliver the manifest of his vessel to the collector: Provided, That this section shall not apply to ports where there is a naval officer.

195. Cargo in bulk.

Vessels arriving at a port of entry in the United States, laden with coal, salt, railroad iron and other like articles in bulk may proceed to places within that collection district

R. S., 2776. June 26, 1884. Sec. 29.

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