Section 329
SEC. 329. If any box, trunk, chest, cask, or other package shall be found in the cabin, steerage, or forecastle of a vessel, or in other place separate from the residue of the cargo, the officer of the customs shall take a particular account of such package, and of the marks and numbers thereof, if any and a description thereof, and, if he judges proper, shall seal every such package and such account and description shall be by him forwarded without delay to the collector of the district to which the vessel is bound. If, upon arrival at the port of entry the package or packages so described, or any of them, are missing, or if any seal put thereon has been broken, the master shall be liable to a penalty for every package missing, or on which any seal shall be broken, of two hundred dollars, and shall also be subject to all the penalties in this Act prescribed for violation of the provisions of this Act by unlawful importation of merchandise, and the fact that such package or packages are missing, or that the seal thereon has been broken, shall be prima facie evidence of an unlawful importation of the goods contained therein.