Section 351
SEC. 351. Passengers' baggage shall be examined as soon as landed, except during the night time. Before dispatching the baggage the inspector shall ask the passenger if he has dutiable merchandise or effects to declare. The examination shall then be made in the presence of the owner or his representative, for the appraisal of such goods as may be dutiable within the amount, namely: Five hundred dollars prescribed in the following section. The duties shall be made out in a stub book and, after being c duly liquidated, the amount of the same shall be paid to the cashier and the detached slips shall be subject to the same formalities as the regular entries. These detached slips shall be known as baggage declarations. The passengers shall be searched only in case of extreme suspicion of fraud, and always with due regard to sex and class. If, upon terminating the examination of the baggage, any packages remain whose owners do not appear to claim them, the collector shall order them weighed, strapped, and sealed, and sent to the warehouse for unclaimed goods, where they shall be subject to the same proceedings prescribed for unclaimed merchandise.