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ACT XVI.
[A.D. 1837.
Penalty.
tom-house pass.
Penalty.
takmg goods ashore
without a boat-note.
passing custom-house,
liable to confiscation.
Modification of Sched.
(B), Act XIV. 1836, as
regards exportation of
sugar.
vide such officer and such servant with suitable shelter and accommoda-
tion, and likewise with a due allowance of fresh water, and with the means
of cooking on board ; and if any commander of a vessel shall wilfully dis-
obey the directions contained in this section, he shall be punished with
fine not exceeding five hundred rupees.
VII. And it is hereby enacted, that no cargo-boat, laden with goods
intended for exportation by sea, shall make fast to, or lie alongside of, any
vessel, unless there shall be on hoard the boat, or have been received by
the custom-house officer on hoard of the vessel, a custom-house permit or
order for the shipment of the goods; and the goods on hoard of any boat
that may so lie alongside, or may he made fast to a vessel, if such goods he
not covered by a custom-house pass accompanying them, or previously
received by the customs officer on board the said vessel, shall be liable to
confiscation.
VIII. And it is hereby enacted, that when goods shall be sent from on
hoard ship for the purpose of being landed and passed for importation,
there shall be sent with each boat-load or other separate despatch, a boat-
note, specifying the number of packages and the marks and numbers or
other description thereof, and such boat-note shall he signed by an officer
of the vessel, and likewise by the customs officer that may he on board ;
and if any imported goods be found in a boat proceeding to land without
a boat-note, or if, being accompanied by a boat-note, they he found out of
the proper track between the ship and the custom-house wharf, or other
wharf or ghaut at which they have been permitted to he landed, the boat
containing such goods may he detained by any inspector or by any other
officer of the preventive service of the custom-house, duly authorized by
the collector of customs ; and unless the cause of deviation be explained to
the satisfaction of the officers of customs, the goods shall be liable to con-
fiscation.
IX. And it is hereby enacted, that when goods shall be brought to
be passed through the custom-house, either for importation or exporta-
tion by sea, if the packages in which the same may be contained shall be ^
found not to correspond with the description of them given in the applica-
tion for passing them through the custom-house, or if the contents thereof
be found not to have been correctly described in regard to sort, quality,
or quantity, or if any goods not stated in the application be found
concealed in or mixed up with the specified articles, all such packages,
with the whole of the goods contained therein, shall be liable to confis-
cation. t
X. And it is hereby enacted, that if any person, after goods have been
landed, and before they have been passed through the custom-house,
removes or attempts to remove them with the intention of defrauding the
revenue, the goods shall be liable to confiscation.
XI. And it is hereby enacted, in modification of the article of Sche-
dule (B) of Act No. XIV. of 1836, which provides, that when sugar or
rupi shall be exported* on British bottoms to any British possession, no
ACT XVI.
[A.D. 1837.
Penalty.
tom-house pass.
Penalty.
takmg goods ashore
without a boat-note.
passing custom-house,
liable to confiscation.
Modification of Sched.
(B), Act XIV. 1836, as
regards exportation of
sugar.
vide such officer and such servant with suitable shelter and accommoda-
tion, and likewise with a due allowance of fresh water, and with the means
of cooking on board ; and if any commander of a vessel shall wilfully dis-
obey the directions contained in this section, he shall be punished with
fine not exceeding five hundred rupees.
VII. And it is hereby enacted, that no cargo-boat, laden with goods
intended for exportation by sea, shall make fast to, or lie alongside of, any
vessel, unless there shall be on hoard the boat, or have been received by
the custom-house officer on hoard of the vessel, a custom-house permit or
order for the shipment of the goods; and the goods on hoard of any boat
that may so lie alongside, or may he made fast to a vessel, if such goods he
not covered by a custom-house pass accompanying them, or previously
received by the customs officer on board the said vessel, shall be liable to
confiscation.
VIII. And it is hereby enacted, that when goods shall be sent from on
hoard ship for the purpose of being landed and passed for importation,
there shall be sent with each boat-load or other separate despatch, a boat-
note, specifying the number of packages and the marks and numbers or
other description thereof, and such boat-note shall he signed by an officer
of the vessel, and likewise by the customs officer that may he on board ;
and if any imported goods be found in a boat proceeding to land without
a boat-note, or if, being accompanied by a boat-note, they he found out of
the proper track between the ship and the custom-house wharf, or other
wharf or ghaut at which they have been permitted to he landed, the boat
containing such goods may he detained by any inspector or by any other
officer of the preventive service of the custom-house, duly authorized by
the collector of customs ; and unless the cause of deviation be explained to
the satisfaction of the officers of customs, the goods shall be liable to con-
fiscation.
IX. And it is hereby enacted, that when goods shall be brought to
be passed through the custom-house, either for importation or exporta-
tion by sea, if the packages in which the same may be contained shall be ^
found not to correspond with the description of them given in the applica-
tion for passing them through the custom-house, or if the contents thereof
be found not to have been correctly described in regard to sort, quality,
or quantity, or if any goods not stated in the application be found
concealed in or mixed up with the specified articles, all such packages,
with the whole of the goods contained therein, shall be liable to confis-
cation. t
X. And it is hereby enacted, that if any person, after goods have been
landed, and before they have been passed through the custom-house,
removes or attempts to remove them with the intention of defrauding the
revenue, the goods shall be liable to confiscation.
XI. And it is hereby enacted, in modification of the article of Sche-
dule (B) of Act No. XIV. of 1836, which provides, that when sugar or
rupi shall be exported* on British bottoms to any British possession, no