Section 57

The owner or agent of any vessel, other than a local craft, leaving any customs port shall, not less than twenty-four hours before the departure of such vessel or such period as the Director General may determine, whichever is lesser, present to the proper officer of customs a true outward manifest of the vessel in the National Language or in

English, in the form and manner as determined by the Director General and certified by such owner or agent, containing all particulars as to

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marks, numbers and contents of each package shipped at the customs port and the names of the shippers.