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Before clearance, certificates to be delivered to the proper officer.
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128. Before any ship shall be cleared outwards from the United Kingdom, the master or other person authorised in writing by him, shall attend before the collector or other proper officer, and shall answer all such questions as shall be demanded of him by such collector or other proper officer concerning the ship, the cargo, and the voyage, and shall deliver to the collector or other proper officer a content of such ship in the form No. 10 in Schedule B. to this Act, or to the same effect, and containing the several particulars therein required, as far as the same can be known by him, and shall make and subscribe the declaration at the foot thereof in the presence of the collector or other officer, unless such content shall be in any case dispensed with by the Commissioners of Customs under such regulations as they may see fit; and before clearance shall deliver the certificates, if any, to the collector or any other proper officer, who shall file them, together with a copy of the report inwards, if any, of goods reported for exportation in such ship, and the victualling bill, with a label attached and sealed thereto in the form and to the effect following:
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