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If any foreign vessel, of whatever burden or form, or wherever she may have come from, be found loadmg or unloading goods of any kind at any coast, river, harbour, bay, or other place, not pointed out by the tariff as a port for foreign vessels, she shall for this alone be confiscated, together with the cargo and all that belongs to her. The commander of the said vessel shall be fined from 500 to 3,000 dollars, according to the value of the cargo and shall be condemned besides to from six to five years of labour and banishment. All those who knowingly aid or protect the loading of said vessels, or the carriage of goods by land, introduced into, or carried out of places described by decree, shall suffer the following fines and punishments, viz.:—the owner, or his deputy, of the carts, beasts of burden, and everything used in the transport of the effects and the persons who receive the goods, as well as he who delivers, deposits, takes charge of, or conceals them, shall all undergo the same penalties and punishments as the captain or supercargo of the vessel, and the other shall be punished by paying a tenth part of the fine,