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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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