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 548 Trru: xxx1v.—COLLEC'l‘ION OF DUTIES.-—Ch. 4. Treasury, board all such vessels, and indorse their manifests, and place an officer on board of each vessel bound up James River, having a cargo from a forei n port. lf, however, there is no revcnuecuttcron that station for the purpose of boarding vessels, or when the state of the weather may be such as to render it impracticable to send an officcr on board any vessel bound up James River, having a cairigo from a foreign port, the captain shall deposit, with the surveyor at ampton, a copy of the manifest of the cargo on board such vessel. Duties of muster Sec. 2836. The master of any vessel arriving within the districts of g°““‘Lf°' 1;§*°’,f‘ Petersburgh or Richmond, laden with merchandise, belonging or con- °r Nsigned to persons resident within both the districts, shall make entry of j such vessel, in manner already prescribed by law, with the collector of 25, ,.f 2, IQ1w_ ’that district wherein the owner or consignee, or the husband or acting manager of such vessel, shall actually reside; and the master shall, at the time of makin the entry, deliver a duplicate manifest of the cargo to the collector, whose duty it shall then be to certify the same as a true co y, and to transmit it to the collector of the other district, and the delivery of such merchandise shall be authorized by permits from the collector of each district, respectively, in which the same has been duly entered according to law. No importer, owner, or consignee of merchandise, residin in either district, dhall, however, be admitted to make an entry of suclli merchandise with the collector of the district in which such importer, owner, or consignee does not reside. All entries, moreover, for merchandise, made by agents, for persons residing in other distripts, shgll pc made with the collector of the district in which such vesse mav isc ar e. What weights Sec. 2837. All irivoices shall be made out in the weights or measures i‘;":n’:]:;‘;g‘B’°¤ ““d of the country or place from which the importation is made, and shall ‘—30—JK@—€ contain a true statement of the actual weights or measures of such mer- 171, ,_ 27,2-. 13,’p_' ghgtiglise, without any respect to the weig ts or measures of the United 217. s. [Sw suns. ma.] What currency Src. 2838. All invoices of merchandise subject to a duty ad valorem used i¤ i¤V¤i<>¤¤- shall be made out in the currency of the place or country from whence 3 Mn, 1801, c_ the importation shall be made, and shall contain a true statement of the 28,s. 2,v. 2, p. 121. actual cost of such merchandise, in such foreign currency or currencies, without any respect to the value of the coins of the United States, iie1d,4B1atch.,47s. or of foreign coins, by law made current within the United States, in such foreign place or country. [SM S 2008-1 Forfeiture when Sm. 2839. If any merchandise, of which entry has been made in the 90%* is *39* M ******1 office of a collector, is not invoiced according to the actual cost thereof “} ““'°‘°°‘ at the place of exportation, with design to evade payment of duty, all 2z2s Dggr;,,}7)9%,_ sucih merepandip1e,1p£6tpeyah1;e] thereof, to be recovered of the person é2·Ju;w; {854, (_; ma ing en ry, s a or G1. 391,.¤.11,v. 18, .188.-U. Sn-. Riddle, 5Cr.,311; U. S. v. One Hundred and Fifty Crates Earthenwazeiii Wh.,232; Clifton r. U. S.,4 How.,242; Buckly 1-. U. S.,4 How., 251; Caldwell v. U. S., 8 How., 366; U. S. r. Sixty-seven Packages, 17 How., 85; U. S. 11. One Package, 17 How.,97; U. S. 1-. One Case of Clocks, 17 ]·{ow.,99; Wood v. U.S., 16 Pet., 342; Alfonso z-. U.S., 2 Story, 421; Schmalz, 5 Court Claims, 294. Ccllepwrwwke Sec. 2840. In every case in which a. collector shall suspect that any ?:n;‘;*;§; merchandise is not invoiced at a sum epual to that for which it has wah usually been sold in the place or_ country rom whence it was imported, he shall take the merchandise into his possession, and retain the same 22 S_ 66 ,;j1 pd,.71 with reasonable care, at the risk and expense of the owner or consignee, é2 _;,},,,, E374, C until its value at the time and place of importation has been ascertained, 391, B. 11, L-. 18, p. as in the case of damaged merchandise, or of merchandise not accom- 188. panied with an invoice, and until the duties arisin, according to such valuation, have been paid, or secured to be id. lgutin case of a prosecution for_forfeiture, such appraisement sliiill not exclude other proof, gplon the trial, of the actual cost of the merchandise at the place of exporion. Oaths eq mmm- Sec. 2841. Whenever merchandise imported into the United States is entered by invoice, one of the following oaths, according to the nature of