Chapter 215. to amend section five of the act entitled “An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes”, approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty
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CHAP. 215.— An Act to amend section five of the act entitled “An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes”, approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.Feb. 23, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Immediate transport at ion act, amended.Vol. 21, p. 174. That section five of the act entitled “An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes”, approved June tenth,eighteen hundred and eighty, be, and the same is hereby, amended so that it shall read as follows, namely:
" Sec. 5. “That merchandise transported under the provisions of this. Transportation of sealed merchandise.act shall be conveyed in ears, vessels, or vehicles securely fastened with locks or seals, under the exclusive control of the officers of the customs; and merchandise may also be transported under the provisions of this act by express companies on passenger-trains, in safes, ‘ pouches’, and trunksExpress companies., which shall be of such size, character, and description and secured in such manner as shall be from time to time prescribed by the 412 Secretary; and in cases where merchandise shall be imported in boxes’ or packages too large to be included within the sales, trunks, or ‘pouches’ as prescribed, such merchandise may be transported under the provisions of this act by such express companies, ‘corded and sealed’, in such manner as shall from time to time be prescribed by the Secretary of the Passengers’ baggage.Treasury; and ‘passengers’ baggage and effects arriving at any of the ports specified in section one of this act, which shall appear by the manifest of the importing vessel, or other satisfactory evidence, to be destined to any of the ports specified in the seventh section, may also be transported by express companies under the provisions of this act to any of the ports specified in the seventh section thereof, in such manner and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury Bulky merchandise.may prescribe’; and merchandise such as pig-iron, spiegle-iron, scrap-iron, iron-ore, railroad-iron, and similar articles commonly transported upon platform or flat cars may be transported under the provisions of this act upon such platform or flat cars; and the weight of such merchandise so transported shall be ascertained in all cases before shipment, and ordinary railroad seals may be used for such purposes,; and inspectors shall be stationed at proper points along the designated routes, or upon any car, vessel, vehicle, or train, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, and at the expense of the companies, Transshipment.respectively.
Such merchandise shall not be unladen or transshipped between the ports of first arrival and final destination, unless authorized by the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury in cases which may arise from a difference in the gauge of railroads, or ‘where the route is bonded for both land and water carriage’, or from accidents, or from legal intervention, or when, by reason of the length of the route, the cars, after due inspection by customs officers, shall be considered unsafe or unsuitable to proceed further, or from low water, ice, or other unavoidable obstruction to navigation; and in no case shall there be permitted any breaking of the original packages of such merchandise.
” " Approved, February 23, 1887.