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 104 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 6. 1909. on conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars or be imprisoned at hard labor not more than two years, or mh? "°*° °"" both, in the discretion of the court; and evidence of such soliciting; ' demanding, exact', or receiving, satisfactory to the court m whic such trial is had:1§iall be regarded as prima facie evidence that such solicitipg, demanding, exacting, or receiving was contrary to law and sh put upon the accused the burden of proving that such act was innocent and not with an unlawful intention. _ “‘¤‘¥°"'“""'“~ "Sec. 27. That any baggage or personal eEects arrivmtg in the United States in transit to any foreign coimtry may be ehvered by the parties having it m charge to the collector of the proper district, to be b him retained, without the payment or exaction of any import diity, or to be forwarded by such collector to the collector of) the port of de arture and to be elivered to such Iparties on their departure for tgeir foreign destination, under suc_ rules and regulations as the Secretary 0 the Treasury may prescribe. Qiévgclgsumw NSec. 28. That sections twenty-six hundred and eight, twenty- eight hundred and thirgy-eight, twenty-eight hundred and thirty- °°°°‘”°’2°°°’28°` nine, twenty-eight hun red and fort -one, twenty-eight hundred 2g§°§“m°3’¤“'““' and forty-three, twenty-eight hundreg, and forty-five, twenty-eight hundred _ and fifty-three twenty-eight hundred and fifty-four, twenty-eight hpndred and :(ifty-s1.x, twenty-eight hundred an fifty- §,g°c§§,‘}, mm eight, twenty-eight hundred and sixty, twenty-mne hundred, twenty- ' nine hundred and two, twenty-nine hundred and five, twenty-nine °°°"”°7`2°°°' hundred and seven, twenty-nine hundred and eight, twenty-nine mgmt hundred and nine, twenty-nine hundred and twenty-two, twenty- S"` nine hundred and twenty-three, twenty-nine hundred and twenty- 8,,u,,2.,'m,_ four, twenty-nine hundred and twenty-seven, twenty-nine hundred Sm mm and twenty-nine, twenty-nme hundred and thirty, twenty-nine Sm M M 2952 hundred and thu·t(y-one,twenty-nme hundred and thirty-two,twenty- ° ’ nine hundred an forty-three, twenty-nine hundred and forty-five, Sm ,,,u_,,,,,,,,_ twenty-nine hundred and fifty-two, three thousand and eleven, three thousand and twelve, three thousand and twelve and one—half three ram. thousand and thirteen, of the Revised Statutes of the `(Jnited "°L ”· PP- ms- ‘”°· States, be, and the same are hereby, repealed and sections nine, ten, eleven twelve, fourteen, and sixteen of an Act entitled ‘An Act to amend the customs-revenue laws and to rplpeal moieties,’ approved Vol- 2*1. vv- ¤*¤*-M5- Jime twenty-second, eighteen hundred an seventy-four, and sections seiven, eight, and nine gffthe awt entitled ‘An Act to} reducle interna —revenue taxation, an or other p oses, a rove Marc I°°°°°m°°° M"' third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, afidp all othefgcts and parts b,§{§{·,";";§,';*§‘€',§,{§?‘ of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed, but the repeal of existing laws or modihcations thereof embraced m this Act shaH not affect any act done, or any right accriung_or accrued, or any] Slllbl or proceeding had or_ commenced in any CIVII cause_ before the said repeal or modifications; but all iights and l1ab11it1es under said laws shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner, except as otherwise provided in this Act, as if said repeal or modifications had not been made. Any offenses committed, and all fpenalties or forfeitures or liabilities incurred prior to tlégipassage o this Act under any statute embraced in or changed,_mo ed, or repealed by this Act may be prosecuted and punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this _Act had not been passed. All acts of limitation, whether agphcable to civil causes and proceedings or to the prosecution of o enses or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures embraced in or modified, changed, or repealed by this Act, shall not be affected m§;¤di¤S P*°°°°d· thereby; and all suits, proceedings, or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes arising or acts done or committed rior to the passage of this Act,_ may be commenced and prosecutedli except as otherwise provided in this Act, within the same time and witg the