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     shall be forfeited ; brovided that nothing in this 
     
     section contained shall apply to any such liquors 
     
     imported into this Island from Europe, the Bri- 
     
     tish \Vest Indies, or any British l’ossessnons Ill 
     
     North America. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VI. On the seizure of any goods, wares and 
     
     merchandize, by any Iandwaiter or preventive 
     
     oflicer, under the. provisions of the said herein- 
     
     before recited Act, the duties on such goods, 
     
     wares and merchandize, shall be first paid into 
     
     the public treasury within thirty days after the 
     
     sale thereof; and the balance or residue of the 
     
     proceeds arising from such sales, after the pay 
     
     ment of the duties as aforesaid, shall be paid to 
     
     or equally divided between the ollicer or otlicers 
     
     making the seizure, together with three fourth 
     
     parts of all fines relating to such seizure 5 which 
     
    
   
   
    
     shall be sued for and recovered in the name or 
     
    
   
   
    
     names of such oflicer or oflicers making the sei- 
     
     zure, or by an information filed by the Attorney 
     
     or Solicitor General. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VII. No goods, wares or merchandize shall 
     
     be liable to forfeiture by reason of the same not 
     
     having been duly entered by the master of the 
     
     ship or vessel in which the same shall have been 
     
     imported ; provided always, that such goods, 
     
     wares or merchandize shall have been duly en- 
     
     tered according to law, by the importer or con- 
     
     signee thereof, or other person interested in the 
     
     same. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VIII. No ship or vessel shall be liable to 
     
     seizure, detention or forfeiture, under the pro- 
     
     visions of the said recited Act, by reason of any 
     
     breach or violation ofthe said Act, having been 
     
     committed by the master, (not being the owner) 
     
     of such ship or vessel, unless the owner. or own- 
     
     ners of such ship-or vessel shall, either directly 
     
     or indirectly, be privy or accessory to, or in some 
     
     way concerned in the breach or violation ofsuch 
     
     Act as aforesaid. 
     
    
   
   
    
     IX. All masters of ships coasting, fishing, and 
     
     of all other vessels whatsoever whether laden or 
     
     in ballast, coming into any harbor, port, river, 
     
     creek, qr any other part of the coasts of this Is- 
     
     land, shall, before breaking bulk, or landing 
     
     passengers or baggage, and within twenty four 
     
     hours after their arrival, make report in writing, 
     
     upon oath, to the collector ofimpost for the bar- 
     
     bor or district wherein such vessel shall have 
     
     arrived, and the masters of all vessels having on 
     
     heard any wines, gin, brandy, rum, or other dis- 
     
     tilled spirituous liquors, tea, tobacco, goods, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     *wares, or merchamhze, ot what nature or kind 
     
    
   
   
    
     soever, shall also spccity in such report, the kinds 
     
     of casks, packages, parcels, boxes, trunks, bales 
     
     and all other manner of things in which such 
     
     wines, gin, brandy, rum, or other distilled spiri- 
     
     tuous liquors, tea, tobacco, goods, wares and 
     
     merchandize, shall or may be contained, together 
     
     with the marks and numbers thereof, and that 
     
     [boy have not landed, nor sull'ered. to be landed, 
     
     sold, artered or exchanged, any wine, gin, 
     
     brandy, rum or other distilled spirituous liquors, 
     
     tea. tobacco, goods, wares, or merchandize, at 
     
     any port or place within this Island, or on the 
     
     coast thereof, since their sailing from the port or 
     
     place where the same were laden on board any 
     
     ship or vessel for exportation, which oath the 
     
     said collector is empowered to administer in the 
     
     form following : 
     
    

    
     You .1. 13., do swear that the report which 
     
     you have made (read or heard read, as the case 
     
     may be) and subscribed, contains a just and true 
     
     account of all wines, gin, brandy, rum, or other 
     
     distilled spirituous liquors, tea, tobacco, goods, 
     
     wares, or merchandize, laden on board the 
     
     at the port of or any other port or ports, 
     
     or elsewhere, before or since your sailing from 
     
    

    
     and that you have not landed,nor suffered 
     
     to he landed, sold or delivered, barteer or ex- 
     
     changed any wine, rum, brandy, gin, or other 
     
     distilled spirituous liquors, tea, tobacco, goods, 
     
     wares or merchandim, at any port or place with- 
     
     in this Island, or on the coast thereof, since your 
     
     sailing from or since your sailing from any 
     
     other place. So help you God. 
     
    

    
     X. \Vhen any landx ’aiter or preventive officer 
     
     shall have made a seizure ofany goods prohibited, 
     
     or unlawfully imported, or attempted to be un- 
     
     lawfully inqmrted, or landed in this Island, it 
     
     shall be the duty ofsuch otlicer, and he is hereby 
     
     required to furnish to the nearest collector of 
     
     impost, a list or account ofthe goods so seized, 
     
     before proceeding to the sale thereof. and which 
     
     sale shall be made known by posting a notice 
     
     thereof in the form prescribed in the schedule 
     
     marked (A.) to this Act annexed, in twelve of 
     
     the most public places, at and in the vicmity of 
     
     the place where such sale is to take place, at 
     
     least fifteen days previous to such sale; and the 
     
     collector or collectors of impost who may receive 
     
     such list of seizures as aforesaid, are hereby re— 
     
     quired to furnish the same, annually, to the 
     
     Treasurer ofthis Island, who shall lay the same 
     
     before the [louse of Assembly, at the next ses- 
     
     sion thereof.