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Commissioners of Inland Revenue to provide wrappers for enclosing imported cards, &c.
Forfeiture of cards not enclosed in wrappers.
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115. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall provide wrappers for enclosing cards imported into the United Kingdom, in such form and with such device and with any words and figures thereon as they shall think proper, and shall appoint an officer, at any port or place where the same shall be required, to enclose in such wrappers any cards imported; and every such officer, on reasonable notice and upon delivery to him of a certificate, under the hand of the proper officer of Customs at the port where any cards shall be imported, that the duties by law charged on such cards imported have been duly paid, and specifying such particulars as the Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall direct, shall enclose every pack of such cards in one of such wrappers, and securely fasten the same by means of some adhesive substance, in such manner as the said last-mentioned commissioners shall direct; and no such cards shall be delivered out of the custody of the officers of Customs until they shall be enclosed in such wrappers as aforesaid; and if any such cards, or any cards made in the United Kingdom and purporting to be or intended to be represented as cards imported, or which shall not be . . . packs of cards in respect of which the stamp duties shall have been paid, shall be found in any part of the United Kingdom not enclosed in any such wrapper as aforesaid, all such cards shall be forfeited, and may be seized and taken by any officer of Customs or Inland Revenue, and shall be disposed of as the Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall direct.
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