                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
              CHAPTER 3--THE TARIFF AND RELATED PROVISIONS
 
                   SUBTITLE IV--CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION
 
                        Administrative Provisions
 
       part 2--report, entry, and unlading of vessels and vehicles
 
Sec. 283. Duty on saloon stores

    Articles purchased for the use of or for sale on board any such 
vessel, as saloon stores or supplies, shall be deemed merchandise, and 
shall be liable, when purchased at a foreign port, to entry and the 
payment of the duties found to be due thereon, at the first port of 
arrival of such vessel in the United States; and for a failure on the 
part of the saloon keeper or person purchasing or owning such articles 
to report, make entries, and pay duties, as hereinbefore required, such 
articles, together with the fixtures and other merchandise, found in 
such saloon or on or about such vessel, belonging to and owned by such 
saloon keeper or other person interested in such saloon, shall be seized 
and forfeited, and such saloon keeper or other person so purchasing and 
owning shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $100 and not more 
than $500, and shall be punishable by imprisonment for not less than 
three months and not more than two years.

(R.S. Sec. 3113.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 3113 derived from acts July 18, 1866, ch. 201, Sec. 22, 14 
Stat. 183; Feb. 10, 1871, ch. 45, 16 Stat. 409.
