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 550 rms mom.--cohnsction or norms.-ca. 4. goods, wares, and merchandise were not_actually bought by me, or by my agent, in the ordinary mode of barga1n and sale, but that, nevertheless, the invoice which I now produce containsa just and faithful valuation of the same, at their fair market-value, including charges of purchasing, carriages, bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, putting up, and packing, at the time or times, and place or places, when and where procured for my account, (or for account of myself and partners;) that the said invoice contains also a just and faithful account of all charges actually paid, and no other discount, drawback, or bounty but such as has been actually allowed on the said goods, wares, and merchandise; that I do not know nor believe in the existence of any invoice or bill of lading., other than· those now produced by me, and that they are in the state in which I actually received them. And I do further solemnly and truly swear (or athrm) that I have not, in the said entry or invoice, concealed or suppressed anything whereby the United States may be defrauded of any part of the duty awfully due on the said goods, wares, and merchandise, and that if, at any time hereafter, l discover any error in the said invoice or in the account now roduced, of the said goods, wares, and merchandise, or receive any othier invoice of the same, I will immediately make the same known to the collector of this district. B9} {bqé/, Ugg. *‘· [AN ACT to provide for the separate entry of packages contained in one importation. , ‘. · ,]). . . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Ozmgress assembled, That a separate entry may be made of one or more packages contained in an importation of packed packages consigned to one importer or consignee, and concerning which packe dpackages, no invoice, or statement of contents or values, has been receive . Every such entry shall contain a declaration of the whole number of parcels contained in such origlinal packed package; and shall embrace all the goods wares, and mere andise imported in one vessel at one time for one and the same actual owner, or ultimate consignee. Sec. 2. That the importer, consifgnee, or agent’s oath prescribed by section twenty-eight hundred and orty-one of the Revised Statutes, is hereby modified for the purposes of this Act, so as to require the importer consignee or agent to declare therein that the entry contains an account of all the goods ———— imported in the ———-·—— whereof ————— ~———— is master, from ——— for account of —— which oath so modihed, shall in each case, be taken on the entry of one or more packages contained in an original package. But nothing in this act contained shall be construed to relieve the importer, consignee, or agent from producing the oath of the owner or ultimate consignee in every case, now required by law; or to rovide that an importation may consist of less than the whole numbier of (parcels contained in any packed package, or parked packages consigne in one vessel at one time, to one importer, consignee or a. ent. S50. 3.] That all provisions of law inconsistent herewith are hereby re ale . B0,,d;,,,p,.0duc. Size. 2842. No merchandise subject to ad-valorcm duty imported into tion of invoice of the United States, and belonging to a person residing in the United g¤<»d¤ of ¤b*¤* States, but at the time absent from the place where the merchandise is °]Xi'$L____ _ intended to be entered, shall be admitted to an entry, unless the importer, 1 Mar., 1823, c. consignee, or agent, shall previousl give bond, the form of which shall 21§3·§&;é?ig,g3i· be prescribed by the Secretary of the 'I`reasury, with sufficient suretics, ,36 v_ 19’p_ mjto produce, wit un four mont s, to the collector of the port where the ’ ’ merchandise may be, the invoice of the same, duly certified, according to the circumstances of the case, by the oath of the owner, or one of the owners; which oath shall be administered by a collector, if there is any in {the géace vghpre tgp owrger mgy be; or, if hthere is none, by some pu lic officer u y au orize to a minister oat s. h0¤¤h Of PDF Sec. 2843. No jucrchandise subject to ad-valorem duty belonginginw Li" a person not residing at the time in the United States, and who B ll