Art. 7. The Custom-house, in order to check the declarations set out of the employment, whether as to raw material or manufactured articles, shall make use of whatever mode of proceeding it may judge necessary.
Art. 8. There shall not be applied to vessels in substitution:—
1st. For iron in bars of irregular shape, any except articles manufactured with iron of a like irregular shape.
2nd. For iron plates and rolled copper of a millimètre and less in thickness, any objects unless manufactured with sheet iron or rolled copper not exceeding that thickness.
In no case shall articles be admitted in the auditing of the importation accounts, made up with materials of a degree of manufacture less advanced than that of the articles tendered for entry.
Art. 9. Products manufactured with raw materials introduced duty free must represent those same materials weight for weight, and without any allowance for waste.
Art. 10. All infractions of the provisions of the present Decree will be followed by the application of the penalties provided under the third paragraph of Article 1 of the Law of the 19th May, 1866.
Art. 11. All articles placed on board vessels, and all material incorporated into the construction of the said vessels under the provisions of the present Decree, shall, in case of landing, or in case of the dismantling, repairing, or breaking up of the ships, be subject to the provisions of general legislation in matters of Customs’ dues.
[231] This gentleman was an eminent merchant and shipowner of Havre; he was also one of the most able and consistent supporters of the freedom of navigation.
[232] See ante, [p. 363], in regard to how some persons calculated their losses.