--------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Marks. | Numbers. | Packages or | Contents or | Value at the | | articles | quantities. | port of | | in bulk. | | exportation. --------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | --------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Before a clearance shall be granted for any vessel bound to a foreign port, the owners, shippers, or consignors of the cargo of such vessel shall deliver to the collector manifests of the cargo, or the parts thereof shipped by them respectively, and shall verify the same by oath. Such manifests shall specify the kinds and quantities of the articles shipped respectively, and the value of the total quantity of each kind of articles; and the oath to each manifest shall state that it contains a full, just, and true account of all articles laden on board of such vessel by the owners, shippers, or consignors respectively, and that the values of such articles are truly stated, according to their actual cost, or the values which they truly bear at the port and time of exportation. And before a clearance shall be granted for any such vessel, the master of that vessel, and the owners, shippers, and consignors of the cargo, shall state, upon oath, to the collector, the foreign port or country in which such cargo is truly intended to be landed. The oaths shall be taken and subscribed in writing. (R. S., 4200; Apr. 29, 1902.) Form of clearance. The form of a clearance, to be granted to a ship or vessel on her departure to a foreign port or place, shall be as follows: District of          , Port of          . These are to certify all whom it doth concern, that          , master or commander of the          , burden      tons, or thereabouts, mounted with      guns, navigated with      men,      built, and bound for          , having on board     , hath here entered and cleared his said vessel according to law. Given under our hands and seals, at the custom-house of          , this      day of     , one thousand     , and in the      year of the Independence of the United States of America. (R. S., 4201; Apr. 29, 1902.) State inspection laws. The collectors and other officers of the customs shall pay due regard to the inspection laws of the States in which they may respectively act, in such manner that no vessel having on board goods liable to inspection shall be cleared until the master, or other proper person, shall have produced such certificate that all such goods have been duly inspected, as the laws of the respective States may require to be produced to collectors or other officers of the customs. (R. S., 4202; Apr. 29, 1902.) Manifests in Alaskan and insular trades.