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 SIXTY·SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Crr. 356. 1922. 983 in charge thereof, has become subject to a penalt for violation of °"“’°,}.{g,;”°"’·" the customs—revenue laws of the United States, such, vessel or vehicle i shall be held for the payment of such penalty and may be seized and proceeded against summarily by libel to recover the same: Provided, §'.r%`§&;.,,. QS to hat no vessel or vehicle used by an person as a common carrier °°““"°¤ °°"‘°”· in the transaction of business as such common carrier shall be so held or subiect to seizure or forfeiture under the customs laws, unless it shall appear that the owner or master of such vessel or the conductor, driver, or other erson in charge of such vehicle was at the time of the alleged ille al) act a consenting party or privy thereto. Sec. 595. WA1tBANT.—§ any collector of customs or other officer i;’;,';`ff,Y££l?’,,.,d or person authorized to make searches and seizures shall have cause fi,$,;’g;f§»,g;‘j,E”,,P*,*,§Ii°I;’n‘;? to suspect the presence in any dwellin house, store, or other building Mmmor place of any merchandise upon wlnich the duties have not been paid, or which has been otherwise brought into the United States contrary to law, he may make application, under oath, to any justice of the Eeace, to any municipal, count, State, or Federal ju e or to any nited States commissioner, andy shall thereupon be entitid to a warrant to enter such dwelling house in the daytime only, or such store or other lace at ht or- by day, and to search for and seize ,,,,,,,,,_,_ such merchandlise: Progogzd, That if any such house, store, or other Buildings ¤¤ bwudbuilding, or place in which such merchandise shall be found, is upon mi lu"' °t°` or within ten feet of the bound line between the United States and a foreign country, such portionaiiereof as is within the United States may forthwith be taken down or removed. I I I M Sec. 596. BUILDINGS ON BoUNDA11Y.—-Any person who receives or ceivingimetgl lmpciitos deposits in such building upon the boundary hne between the United ,,{“‘Q$“§,',, b,{’,;,d*f{,y*f"“d' States and any foreign coimtry, or carries any merchandise through the same, or aids therein, in violation of law, shall be punishable y · a hne of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both. _ Sec. 597. CONCEAIMENT.—If any merchandise is fraudulently ,,,f,§,§‘,§,${‘m,§,',§,$v£ concealed in, removed from, or repacked in any bonded warehouse, f1Q;>I;gfI’°m b°¤d°d W°’°· or if any marks or numbers laced u on packages deposited in such a Iuegai acts Spanner. warehouse be fraudulently alltered, siefaced, or obliterated, such merchandise and packages shall be subject to forfeiture, and all persons convicted of the fraudulent concealment, repacking, or removal of such merchandise, or of altering, defacing, or obliterating such marks and numbers thereon, and all persons aiding and abetting therein shall ge liable to the same penalties as are imposed by section 593 of this A”t”’p'°82` ct. Sec. 598. Farsn SEALS.··—If any unauthorized person affixes or m§?"8r;§’§”'u,°l`$,L'L'g°e€,`§Q attaches or in any way willfully assists or encourages the  or °'·°· attaching of a customs seal or other fastening to an vessel or vehicle, or of any seal, fastenin, or mark purporting to lie a customs seal, fastening, or mark; or   any unauthorized person willfully or mali— R°m°“”¥$°“'s·°‘°· ciously removes, breaks, injures, or defaces any customs seal or other fastening placed upon any vessel, vehicle, warehouse, or package containing merchandise or baggage in bond or in customs custody, or willfully aids, abets, or encourages any other person to remove, break, UDIBWMII injure, or deface such seal, fastening, or mark; or if any person mg gms rh bxigé maliciously enters any bonded warehouse or any vessel or vehicle §’;°§,“e,§’,,§{If}‘°“S°#V°*s°> laden with or containing bonded merchandise wit intent unlawfully to remove or cause to be removed therefrom any merchandise or baggage therein, or unlawfully removes or causes to be removed any merchandise or baggage in such vessel, vehicle, or bonded warehouse or otherwise in customs custody or control, or aids or assists therein; R. . · · - ecervmg, etc. unor if an person receives or transports any merchandise or baggage rawruimmvsis. ’ unlawfully removed from any such vessel, vehicle, or warehouse, knowing the same to have been unlawfully removed, he shall be guilty