Section I. It is hereby enacted, that if any person after the passing of this Act, lands or attempts to land, o

I. It is hereby enacted, that if any person after the passing of this Act, lands or attempts to land, or shall introduce by land in any part of the Territories subject to the Government of the Presidency of Fort St. George in Madras, any Rum or Rum Shrub, which is the produce of any Foreign Country, or of any British possession into which Foreign Sugar or Rum can be legally imported, such Rum or Rum shrub shall be seized by the Collector of the Customs, or by any other Officer authorized to seize and detain Contraband Goods, and shall be brought to confiscation according to the Rules in force for confiscating such Goods, unless the District in which such Rum or Rum Shrub, be a District in which the Governor in Council has authorized the importation of such Rum or Rum Shrub, and it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to authorize the importation of such Rum and Rum Shrub into any District of the Territories aforesaid by an Order in the Official Gazette.