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Packages of goods for exportation on drawback may be opened for examination of the contents.
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11. In every case where a notice of shipping any goods, wares, or merchandize for exportation on drawback shall be given, it shall be lawful for any officer or officers of excise to open any or all of the package or packages mentioned or described in such notice, and unpack and examine the contents thereof: and the exporter or exporters thereof shall, on the request of such officer or officers, repack such goods (unless he, she, or they shall choose to receive back such goods unpacked) in the presence of a proper officer or officers of excise, in order that the same may be secured and sealed as by law is required for goods packed for exportation on drawback, he, she, or they being afterwards allowed and paid by the commissioners of excise the reasonable expenses of such repacking, and shall either forthwith ship the same under the before-mentioned notice, or give a fresh notice for that purpose, as the occasion may require, and as required by the said Act.
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