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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cn. 147. 1830.

Number ofpackages to beexamined.

Consequencesof discrepancy.

1799, ch. 22.

1823, ch. 21.

Goods, whento be delivered.

Proviso.

Goods for re-exportation.

rent value of the said goods, including said charges, at the place ofexportation, the collector shall designate one merchant, skilled in thevalue of such goods, and the owner, importer, consignee, or agent, maydesignate another, both of whom shall be citizens of the United States ,who, if they cannot agree in an appraisement, may designate an umpirewho shall also be a citizen of the United States , and when they, or amajority of them, shall have agreed, they shall report the result tothe collector, and if their appraisements shall not agree with thatof the United States ’ appraisers, the collector shall decide betweenthem.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the collectors of the customsshall cause at least one package out of every invoice, and one package atleast out of every twenty packages of each invoice, and a greater number,should he deem it necessary, of goods imported into the respective dis-tricts, which package or packages he shall have first designated on theinvoice to be opened and examined, and if the same be found not tocorrespond with the invoice, or to be falsely charged in such invoice, thecollector shall order, forthwith, all the goods contained in the same entryto be inspected; and if such goods be subject to ad valorem duty, thesame shall be appraised, and if any package shall be found to contain anyarticle not described in the invoice, or if such package or invoice bemade up with intent, by a false valuation, or extension or otherwise,to evade or defraud the revenue; the same shall be forfeited, and thefifteenth section of the “ Act supplementary to an act to amend anact, entitled ' An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports andtonnage, passed second March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes,’ ” passed first March, one thousand eighthundred and twenty-three ; and also so much of any act of Congress asimposes an additional duty or penalty of fifty per centum on duties uponany goods which may be appraised at twenty five per centum, or ten percentum above their invoice price, is hereby repealed; and no goods liableto be inspected or appraised as aforesaid, shall be delivered from the cus-tody of the officers of the customs, until the same shall have beeninspected or appraised, or until the packages sent to be inspected orappraised, shall be found correctly and fairly invoiced and put up, and soreported to the collector : Provided, That the collector may, at therequest of the owner, importer, consignee, or agent, take bonds, withapproved security, in double the estimated value of such goods, condi-tioned that they shall be delivered to the order of the collector, at anytime within ten days after the package or packages sent to the publicstores shall have been appraised and reported to the collector. And if,in the mean time, any of the said packages shall be opened, without theconsent of the collector or surveyor given in writing, and then in thepresence of one of the inspectors of the customs, or if the said packageor packages shall not be delivered to the order of the collector, accord-ing to the condition of the said bond, the bond shall, in either case, beforfeited.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of thecollector to cause all goods entered for re-exportation, with the right ofdrawback, to be inspected, and the articles thereof compared with theirrespective invoices, before a permit shall be given for lading the same;and where the goods so entered shall be found not to agree with theentry, they shall be forfeited : and every importer, owner, consignee,agent, or exporter, who shall enter goods for importation, or for expor-tation, or transportation from one port or place to another, with the rightof drawback, shall deposit with the collector the original invoice of suchgoods, if not before deposited with the collector, and in that case anauthenticated invoice thereof to be filed and preserved by him in thearchives of the custom-house, which shall be signed by such importer,