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 132 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 407. 1890. otherwise than by purchase,the actual market value or wholesale Price thereof at the time of exportation to the United States, in_ the principal markets of the country from which the same has been imported; w `ch statement shall be verined by the oath of the owner, 1m(por-, ter, consignee, or agent desiring to make entry of the merchan ise, to be administered by the collector or his deputy, and it shall be law· F¤¤¤;‘i¤:¤=i¤¤br¤¤P ful for the collector or his delputglto examine the deponent under ’oath touching the sources of is owledoge, information, or belief in the premises, and to require him to pr uce anly letter, paper, or statement of account, in his possession, or under is control. which may assist the officers of customs in ascertaining the actual value of the importation or any part thereof; and in default of such production w en so requested, such owner, importer, consignee, or agent shall be thereafter debarred from producing any such letter, paper, or statement for the purpose of avoiding any additional dutv, penalty, or forfeiture incurred under this act, unless he shall show to the satisfaction of the court or the officers of the customs, as the case may be, that it was not in his power to roduce the same when so demanded ; and no merchandise shall be admitted to entry under the provisions of this section unless the collector shall be satisned that the failure to produce a duly certified invoice is due to causes beyond That the Secretary of the Treasury may make regulations by which 1£¤N¤=·¤¤¤ i¤ ¤¤· books, magazines, and other periodicals published and imported in successive parts, numbers, or volumes, and entitled to be imported free of duty, shall require but one declaration for the entire series. And when entry of merchandise exceedinfg one hundred dollars in value is made by a statement in the form o an invoice the collector ·¤¤¤¤- shall require a bond` for the production of a duly certified invoice. ‘ _ Sec. 5. Thatpwhenever merchandise into the United States IS entered by mvoice, one of the following declarations, according to the nature of the case, shall be filed with the collector of the port, at the time of entry by the owner, importer, consignee, or agent; ¤•¤•- which declaration sofil shall be duly signed by the owner, importer, _ consignee, or agent, before the collector, or before a notary (public or other officer uly authorized bv law to administer oaths an take acknowledgments, who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to receive such declarations and to certify to the identity of the persons making them, under regulations to be prescribed b the Secretary of the reasury; and every officer so designated shall iile with the collector of the port a copy of his official signature and MM- seal: Provided. That if Elly of the invoices or bills of lading of any chlpnjenzjopgmevgdf merchandise imported in any one vessel, which should otherwise be at um or mq. embraced in said entry, have not been received at the date of the entry, the declaration may state the fact, and thereupon such merchandise of which the invoices or bills of lading are not produced shall not be included in such entry, but may be entered subsequently. ,,F§§“&‘Q,YQ,‘§$ DEcLARAT10N or consmzmm, IMPORTER, on AGENT. 0f,0l'l§0l1t. I -——-—— —————, do solemnly and truly declare that I am the consignee [importer or agent] of the merchandise described in the annexed entry and invoice ; that the invoice and bill of ladin now presented by me to the collector of ———— ———- are the true and only invoice and bill of lading by me received of all the goods, wares, and merchandise imported in the ——>—whereof -——- ———- is master, , from ———-— -———, for account of any person whomsoever for whom I am authorized to enter the same ; that the said invoice and bill of lading are in the state in which they were actually received by me, and that I do not know or believe in the existence of any other invoice or bill of lading of the said goods, wares. and merchandise; that the entry now de ivered to the collector contains a just and true
 * ’¤•‘•¤· the control o the owner, consignee, or agent thereof : Provided,