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declared and included in the manifest, it shall be confiscated, and the captain fined in a sum quadruple that of the duties which the said goods should pay to the Customs. VI-The captains of vessels arriving from another Spanish port, and duly provided with a freight list from the Custom-house of that port, will deliver this document to the collector here immediately on arrival, and will only manifest such, the above freight list explaining the reasons that have caused its omission, and specifying, moreover, the provisions and stores existing on board, unless the ship should have called in at a foreign port and there received cargo, in which case manifests shall be presented and the same formalities observed as laid down in the preceding rules for all documents in proof from the Spanish Consul at the port touched at.
VII.-Whatever may be the nationality of a vessel, and whencesoever she comes, either la len or in ballast, her captain, crew, and passengers are not allowed on coming ashore to take with them anything without special permission from the Collector of Customs except a writing case, such wearing apparel as can be carried in an open travelling bag or bundle, which is to be examined by the carbineer on board and by the one at the Captain of the Port's office.
VIII. The masters of national or foreign vessels who neglect to obey the provision made by Rule II. of these Regulations, shall forfeit fifty dollars, unless they can prove to the satisfaction of the Collector the causes which prevented it, and the master who shall present a manifest with any of the afore-mentioned requisites wanting shall remedy the same as soon as the Collector of Customs orders it, other- wise the person who presents such manifest shall forfeit twenty-five dollars.
IX.--Should the master of a vessel omit to include in the manifest the quanttiy of gold and silver, in coin or bullion, that may be on board, whatever its origin may be, or to give private information of it and its amount to the Collector of Customs, he will be fined one per cent, on its value, always supposing the owners may not have declared it.
X.-Any produce, goods, articles of use on board, or cargo
of any kind whatsoever transferred from one ship to another in the bay, without permission of the Collector of Customs, will be liable to seizure, as well as the lighter, launch, or other boat in which such transfer may be made, and the master of each vessel shall be fined five hundred dollars when the value of the merchandise or articles transferred does not exceed two hundred dollars; exceeding this sum, the fine will be one thousand dollars each, if the vessels are not the property of the masters, but being their property they will be confiscated, and the same course will be pursued when mer- chandise or goods of any description are discharged without permission, and moreover the captains of vessels from which the merchandise or other effects are discharged shall be liable to the fine and penalties above named.
XI.-The master of every national or foreign ship entering a port open to trade in these Islands, in ballast or with cargo, in distress or in transit, and those who may be obliged to put into a port not open to trade, are bound to produce their manifest or register as provided by the preceding Rule, and to fulfil the same duties as required by the Custom-house of Manila.
XII.-Except in cases in which wrecks or unavoidable damage may occur, any foreign or national ship coming from sea discharging or loading any quantity of goods at a port not open to trade, will incur the confiscation of such goods, and in the contrary cases he will incur the penalty provided by Rule X. for eases of fraudulent transhipment.
XIII.-Masters of all vessels are obliged to supply the Custom-house officers during their stay on board with suitable lodgings and allow them to have their meals at the second table, in compliance with the decree of the Government of these Islands, dated 26th August, 1851.
NOTE.--On the 2nd October, 1878, it was notified that the Director General of Finance had been pleased to approve of vessels consigned to the Philippine Islands for the purpose of loading timber touching at any other fit port of Luzon in pre- ference to Manila should it suit their interest to do so.