Section VIII. And it is further enacted, that it shall be lawful for all Officers of the Customs Department to sea

VIII. And it is further enacted, that it shall be lawful for all Officers of the Customs Department to search any carriages and conveyances, and any packages upon reasonable grounds of suspicion that such carriage, conveyances or packages, contain any articles made subject to duty, or prohibited to be imported by this Act, and to detain all such articles as may be liable to confiscation under the provisions thereof.