19 U.S.C. § 283 — Duty on saloon stores

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Ship supplies bought for a ship's saloon count as merchandise under customs law. If bought abroad, they must be reported and taxed when the ship reaches the U.S. Failing to do this can mean seized goods, fines, and prison time.

Goods bought for use in, or for sale on, a ship's saloon — called saloon stores or supplies — count as merchandise under the customs laws. If someone buys these goods at a foreign port, the goods must be entered with customs and the duties owed on them must be paid. This must happen at the first U.S. port where the vessel arrives. If the saloon keeper, or the person who bought or owns the goods, fails to report them, enter them with customs, and pay the duties as required, there are serious consequences. Customs can seize and forfeit the goods themselves, along with the saloon's fixtures and any other merchandise found in the saloon or on the vessel that belongs to that saloon keeper or owner. On top of that, the saloon keeper or owner faces a penalty of at least $100 and at most $500, and can be imprisoned for at least three months and at most two years.

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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.

Source credit: (R.S. § 3113.)

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