Rule I - Troopships - Rules for passing free of import duty baggage in actual use, and for the landing of passenger’s baggage and passing the same through the ports, Saurashtra

I. Troopships 1. Returns in the appended form [See Form 36 in Part 5] will be supplied to the Commanding Officer on board, who should see that they are filled in as regards columns 1 and 2 and countersign them himself before the arrival of the transport in the harbour. 2. Immediately on the arrival of the transport she will be boarded by a Customs Officer, who will receive all the returns along with a list of all the officers on board. 3. The said Customs Officer will fill up columns 3, 4 and 5 in each return and recover the amount of duty payable from the persons in whose name the goods are entered, and give a receipt in the appended form [See Form 38 in Part 5]. 4. If the said Customs Officer is furnished with a list of all the officers on board, and with complete returns duly filled in as aforesaid, all passengers' baggage on board may be landed free from Customs control. 5. The foregoing rules will not, however, preclude the Custom House authorities from examining or detaining any goods as to which any doubt may arise.