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offense under any section of this act may be paid to the
person or persons giving information leading to such re-
covery, and one-half of any bail forfeited and collected
in any proceedings brought under this act may be paid to
the person or persons giving the information which led to
the institution of such proceedings if so directed by the
court exercising jurisdiction in the case: Provided, That
no payment for giving information shall be made to any
officer or employee of the United States.
Sec. 8. (a) That a narcotic drug that is found upon a ves-
sel arriving at a port of the United States or territory
ander its control or jurisdiction and is not shown upon
the vessel's manifest, or that is landed from any such
vessel without a permit first obtained from the collector
of customs for that purpose, shall be seized, forfeited, and
disposed of in the manner provided in subdivision (d) of
section 2, and the master of the vessel shall be liable (1)
if the narcotic drug is smoking opium, to a penalty of $25
an ounce, and (2) if any other narcotic drug, to a penalty
equal to the value of the narcotic drug.
(b) Such penalty shall constitute a lien upon the vessel
which may be enforced by proceedings by libel in rem.
Clearance of the vessel from a port of the United States
may be withheld until the penalty is paid, or until there is
deposited with the collector of customs at the port, a bond
in a penal sum double the amount of the penalty, with
sureties approved by the collector, and conditioned on the
payment of the penalty (or so much thereof as is not re-
mitted by the Secretary of the Treasury) and of all costs
and other expenses to the Government in proceedings for
the recovery of the penalty, in case the master’s application
for remission of the penalty is denied in whole or in part by
the Secretary of the Treasury.
(¢) The provisions of law for the mitigation and remis-
sion of penalties and forfeitures incurred for violations of
the customs laws shall apply to penalties incurred for a
violation of the provisions of this section.
Sec. 9. That this act may be cited as the *“ Narcotic
Drues Import and Export Aet.”
Congress has power to prohibit the importation of opium and,
as a measure reasonably calculated to aid in the enforcement
of the prohibition, to make its concealment, with knowledge of
its unlawful importation, a crime. The presumptions created
by sections 2 and 3 of the act of February 9, 1909, as amended
by the act of January 17, 1914, are reasonable and do not con.
travene the due process of law and the self-incrimination clauses
of the fifth amendment of the Constitution. (Yee Hem wv.
United States, 268 U. S., 178.)
Treaty with Canada to suppress smuggling, proclaimed July
17, 1925, and regulations promulgated thereunder hv Executive
nrder. (T. D. 3758.)
AN ACT PROHIBITING THE IMPORTATION OF CRUDE OPIUM
FOR THE PURPOSE OF MANUFACTURING HFROIN
{Act of June 7, 192} (43 Stat., 657).] That subdivision
(b) of section 2 of the act entitled “An act to prohibit
the importation and the use of opium for other than
medicinal purposes,” approved February 9, 1909, as amended,
is amended by striking out the period at the end of the
first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and
the following: “but no crude opium may be imported or
brought in for the purpose of manufacturing heroin.”
See regulations issued by Federal Narcotics Control Board.
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