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Penalty on breaking seals, &c., placed by officers on stores from warehouse outwards.
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135. If any officer of Customs shall place any lock, mark, or seal upon any stores or goods taken from the warehouse without payment of duty as stores on board any ship or vessel departing from any port in the United Kingdom, and such lock, mark, or seal be wilfully opened altered or broken, or if such stores be secretly conveyed away, either while such ship or vessel remains at her first pert of departure, or at any port or place in the United Kingdom, or on her passage from one such port or place to another before the final departure of such ship or vessel on her foreign voyage, the master shall forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.
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