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Indecent or obscene prints, paintings, books, cards, lithogra phic or other engravings, or other indecent or obscene

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All such infected cattle, sheep, or other animals, and hides, skins, horns, hoofs, or any other part of cattle or other animals, as the Governor in Council shall at any time prohibit in order to prevent any infectious or contagious distemper or disease.

Spirits (not being perfumed or medicinal spirits), unless in ships of forty tons burden at least, and in casks or other vessels capable of containing liquids, each of such casks or other vessels being of the size or content of fourteen gallons at the least, and duly reported, or in glass bottles or stone bottles not exceeding the size of three pint bottles, and being really part of the cargo of the importing ship and duly reported.

Snuff or tobacco, unless in ships of forty tons burden at least and in whole and complete packages, each containing not less than sixty pounds nett weight, and not containing any other goods, and unless into such ports as are or may be approved by the Governor for the importation of tobacco.

Cigars, unless in ships of forty tons burden at least, and in packages containing not less than sixty pounds nett weight or not less than ten thousand in number each, and not containing any other goods; and unless into such ports as are or may be approved, as last aforesaid.

Opium, unless in ships of forty tons burden at least, and in whole and complete packages, each containing not less than forty-five pounds nett weight; and not containing any other goods, and unless into such ports as are or may be approved by the Governor for the importation and warehousing of opium.

XXXIII. The importation of arms, ammunition, gunpowder, or any other goods may be prohibited by proclamation of the Governor in Council; and if any goods so prohibited be imported they shall be forfeited.

XXXIV. There shall be publicly exposed at the several ports in the colony lists of all books wherein the copyright shall be subsisting, and as to which the proprietor of such copyright, or his agent shall have given notice in writing that such copyright exists, stating in such notice when such copyright expires.

XXXV. If any ship coming into the Colony shall not come as quickly up to the proper place of mooring or unlading as the nature of the port will admit, without touching at any other place, and in proceeding to such proper place shall not bring to at the stations appointed by the Commissioner for the boarding of ships by the officers of the customs, or if after arrival at such place such ship shall remove from such place except directly to some other proper place of mooring or unlading, and with the knowledge of the proper officer of the customs, or if the master of any ship on board of which any officer is stationed neglect or refuse to provide every such officer sufficient room under the deck in some part of the cabin or steerage, or passenger deck, for his bed or hammock, the master of such vessel shall forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.

XXXVI. The proper officers of the customs may board any ship arriving at any port in the Colony, and freely stay on board until all the goods laden therein shall be duly delivered from the same, and shall have free access to every part of the ship, with power to fasten down hatchways or entrances to the hold, and to mark any goods before landing, and to lock up, seal, mark, or otherwise secure, any goods on board such ship; and if any place, or any box or chest be locked, and the keys be withheld, such officers, if they be of a degree superior to that of tidewaiter, may open any such place, box, or chest, in the best manner in their power, and if they be tidewaiters, or only of that degree, they shall send for their superior officer, who may open or cause to be opened any such place, box, or chest, in the best manner in his power; and if any goods be found concealed on board any such ship they shall be forfeited, and if the officers shall place any lock, mark, or seal, upon any goods on board, and such lock, mark, or seal, be wilfully opened altered, or broken, before due delivery of such goods, or if any of such goods be secretly conveyed away, or if the hatchways or entrances to the hold, after having been fastened down by the officer, be opened, the master of such ship shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds; and if the proper officer of the customs shall place any lock, mark, or seal, upon any stores on board any ship or vessel arriving in the Colony, or upon any package whatever at any time, and such lock, mark, or seal, be wilfully opened, altered, or broken, or if any such stores be secretly conveyed away, either while the ship remains in the port at which she shall have so arrived, or before she shall have arrived at any other port in the Colony to which she may then be about to proceed, the master of such ship shall forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.

XXXVII. No goods except live animals, and fresh fish, (which may be landed before report or entry), shall be unshipped from any ship arriving from any parts beyond the seas, or be landed or put on shore, on Sundays or holidays; nor shall they be so unshipped, landed, or put on shore, on any day except during such hours as may for the several ports and landing places be from time to time appointed by the Commissioner; nor shall any goods be unshipped or landed except in the presence or with the authority of the proper officer of the customs; nor shall they be so landed except at some legal quay, wharf, or other place duly appointed for the landing of goods; nor shall any such goods, after having been unshipped or put into any boat or craft to be landed, be transhipped or removed into any other boat or craft previously to their being landed without the permission of the proper officer of the customs. And if any such goods shall be unshipped, landed, transhipped, or removed, contrary hereto, the same shall be forfeited. And if any goods shall be unshipped or removed from any importing ship for the purpose of being landed after due entry thereof, such goods shall be forthwith removed to, and landed at, the wharf, quay, or other place at which the same are intended to be landed. And if such goods are not so removed and landed, the same shall be forfeited, together with the barge, lighter, boat, or other vessel, employed in removing the same. Provided, that in default of any general or special appointment by the Commissioner to the contrary, the times for unshipping and landing goods, on days other than Sundays and holidays, shall be from eight o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the afternoon on and from the first day of October until the first day of April, and from nine o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the afternoon on and from the first day of April until the first day of October, and on Saturday no goods shall be landed after twelve o'clock at noon without the permission of the collector.

AS TO THE MANIFEST AND REPORT OF THE CARGO OF MERCHANT SHIPS, AND OF SHIPS IN COMMISSION BRINGING MERCHANDISE FROM PARTS BEYOND THE SEAS:

XXXVIII. If there be not on board any ship bringing merchandise to the Colony, from any port or place within the British dominions, such full proper and authentic manifest of the cargo, or other proper clearance outwards of such ship as may be required by the laws in force at such port or place, or if any goods appearing on such manifest or clearance be not on board, or duly accounted for, the master of such ship shall forfeit any sum not exceeding one hundred pounds.

XXXIX. The master of every such ship shall produce such manifest or other clearance as last aforesaid to any officer of customs who may board such ship after her arrival within one league of the coast of the Colony, or within the limits of any port thereof, and who may demand the same for inspection; and any such master being thereunto required by any such officer shall also deliver to him a true copy of such manifest or clearance signed by the master; and if such master shall not produce such manifest or clearance, or shall not deliver such copy, being thereunto duly required, he shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding £50.

XL. The master of every ship, whether laden or in ballast, shall, within twenty-four hours after arrival from parts beyond the seas at any port in the Colony, and before bulk be broken, make due report of such ship in the form contained in the first schedule to this Act, or to the same effect, and containing the several particulars indicated or required thereby; and if the cargo of such ship shall have been laden at several places, shall state the particulars of the goods laden at each of those places, in the order of time in which the same were laden, and shall set opposite to such particulars, in the proper column, the name of the place of lading. And with respect to any ship arriving coastwise at any port in the Colony with any goods therein laden at any place beyond the seas, the like report shall, within twenty-four hours after arrival of such ship, be made of such ship and goods by the master of such ship as would be required if such ship had arrived direct from parts beyond the seas.

XLI. If such master shall wilfully fail to make such report according to the particulars hereinbefore required, so far as the same are applicable to such ship, cargo, and voyage, or if the particulars or any of them contained in such report be false, such master shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds.

XLII. Goods not duly reported may be detained by any officer of customs until the same shall be so reported, and the cause of the omission explained to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, who may thereupon order the said goods to be restored on such terms as he may think proper; and such goods may in the meantime, should the Commissioner deem necessary, be taken to the Queen's warehouse.

XLIII. The captain, master, purser, or other person in charge of any ship, having commission from Her Majesty or from any foreign State, having on board any goods laden in parts beyond the seas, shall on arrival at any port in the Colony, and before any part of such goods be taken out of such ship, or when called upon so to do by any officer of the customs, deliver an account in writing under his hand to the best of his knowledge of the quality, and quantity of every package or parcel of such goods, and of the marks and numbers thereon, and of the names of the respective shippers and consignees of the same; and shall make and subscribe a declaration at the foot of such account declaring to the truth thereof, and shall also truly answer to the collector such questions concerning such goods as shall be required of him, and on failure thereof, such captain, master, purser, or other person, shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds, and all such ships shall be liable to such searches as merchant ships are liable to, and the officers of the customs may freely enter and go on board all such ships, and bring from thence on shore into the Queen's warehouse any goods found on board such ships as aforesaid, subject nevertheless to such regulations in respect of ships of war belonging to Her Majesty as shall from time to time be directed in that respect by the Governor.

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XLIV. The master of every ship arriving from parts beyond the seas shall at the time of making such report deliver to the collector the manifest of the cargo of such ship (where a manifest is requisite) and also, if thereunto required, the bill of lading, or a copy thereof, for every part of the cargo laden on board, and shall answer all such questions relating to the ship, cargo, crew, and voyage, as shall be put to him by such collector, and in case of failure or refusal to answer such questions, or to answer truly, or to produce any such manifest, bill of lading, or copy, or if any such manifest, bill of lading, or copy, shall be false, or if any manifest bill of lading be uttered or produced by any master, and the goods expressed therein respectively shall not have been bonâ fide shipped on board such ship, or if any manifest or bill of lading, uttered or produced by any master shall not have been signed by him, or any such copy shall not have been received or made by him previously to his leaving the place where the goods expressed in such manifest bill of lading or copy were shipped, or if after the arrival of any ship within one league of the coast of the Colony, bulk shall be broken, or any alteration made, in the stowage of the cargo of such ship, so as to facilitate the unlading of any part of such cargo, or if any part be staved, destroyed, or thrown overboard, or any package be opened, unless accounted for to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, in every such case such master shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds.

XLV. If the contents of any package intended for exportation in the same ship, or for transhipment, shall be reported by the master as being unknown to him, the officers of the customs may open and examine such package on board, or bring the same to the Queen's warehouse for that purpose, and if there be found in such package any goods which are prohibited to be imported, such goods shall be forfeited, unless the commissioner shall permit them to be exported.

AS TO THE ENTRY OF DUTIABLE GOODS TO BE DELIVERED FOR HOME CONSUMPTION ON THE LANDING THEREOF FROM THE IMPORTING SHIP:

XLVI. The importer of any goods liable to duties of customs and intended to be delivered for home use on the landing thereof from the importing ship, or his agent, shall, before unshipment thereof, make perfect entry of such goods by delivering to the collector a bill of entry thereof, in the form contained in the second schedule to this Act, or to the same effect, and containing the several particulars indicated in or required thereby; and the particulars in such entry hall correspond with the particulars given of the same goods and packages in the report of the ship, and shall state the value of such goods, and the importer or his agent shall subscribe a declaration of the truth of such value in the form set forth at the foot of such entry.

XLVII. The importer or his agent shall, immediately upon the entry of any goods entered by him to be delivered for home use, pay down any duties which may be payable upon the goods mentioned in such bill of entry to the collector or other person authorized to receive the same, and such bill of entry, when signed by the collector or other person, shall be transmitted to the landing waiter, and be his warrant for the landing and delivery of such goods.

AS TO THE ENTRY OF GOODS INSENDED TO BE WAREHOUSED WITHOUT PAYMENT OF DUTY ON FIRST ENTRY THEREOF:

XLVIII. The importer of any goods intended to be warehoused without payment of duty on the first entry thereof, or his agent, shall deliver to the collector a bill of entry of such goods in the same manner and form, and containing the same particulars, as are hereinbefore required on the entry of goods to be delivered for home use on the landing thereof, so far as the same shall be applicable; and the name and description of the warehouse in which such goods are intended to be warehoused, and the name of person in whose name they are to be so warehoused; and such bill of entry, when signed by the collector shall be transmitted to the proper officer of customs, and be the warrant for the due warehousing of such goods.

XLIX. If after any goods shall have been duly entered and landed to be warehoused, though not actually deposited in the warehouse, the importer shall further duly enter the same, or any part thereof, for home use or exportation, the same may be delivered and taken for home use or exportation as the case may be.

AS TO THE ENTRY OF GOODS FREE OF DUTY:

L. The importer of any goods not subject to duties of customs, or his agent, shall deliver to the collector a bill of entry of such goods, in the same manner and form, and containing the same particulars as hereinbefore required on the entry of dutiable goods, so far as the same is applicable; and such bill of entry, when signed by the collector, shall be transmitted to the proper officer, and be his warrant for the delivery of the goods mentioned therein.

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LI. The importer of any goods, or his agent, if unable, for want of full information, to make a perfect entry of such goods, on making and subscribing a declaration to that effect before the collector, may make an entry by bill of sight for the packages or parcels of such goods in the form contained in the third schedule to this Act, or to the same effect, and containing the several particulars indicated or required thereby.

LII. Such entry, being delivered to the collector and signed by him, shall be the warrant for provisionally landing such goods to be examined by such importer in the presence of the proper officers; and the importer shall, within three days after the landing thereof, and before the same shall be delivered, make full and perfect entry thereof, by endorsing upon such bill of sight such particulars of such goods as are hereinbefore required on making perfect entry of goods, whether for payment of duty, or for warehousing or for delivery free of duty, as the case may be, and to such endorsement he shall affix the date thereof, together with his signature and place of abode; and such endorsement, when signed by the collector, shall be taken as a perfect entry for such goods.

LIII. Where an entry for the landing and examination of goods for delivery on payment of duty shall be made by bill of sight, such goods shall not be delivered until perfect entry thereof shall have been made and the duties thereon paid unless the importer or his agent shall have deposited with the proper officer of the customs a sum of money

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