
      If any shipper of platina, gold, gold dust, silver, bullion, or
    other precious metals, coins, jewelry, bills of any bank or public
    body, diamonds, or other precious stones, or any gold or silver in
    a manufactured or unmanufactured state, watches, clocks, or
    timepieces of any description, trinkets, orders, notes, or
    securities for payment of money, stamps, maps, writings, title
    deeds, printings, engravings, pictures, gold or silver plate or
    plated articles, glass, china, silks in a manufactured or
    unmanufactured state, and whether wrought up or not wrought up with
    any other material, furs, or lace, or any of them, contained in any
    parcel, or package, or trunk, shall lade the same as freight or
    baggage, on any vessel, without at the time of such lading giving
    to the master, clerk, agent, or owner of such vessel receiving the
    same a written notice of the true character and value thereof, and
    having the same entered on the bill of lading therefor, the master
    and owner of such vessel shall not be liable as carriers thereof in
    any form or manner; nor shall any such master or owner be liable
    for any such goods beyond the value and according to the character
    thereof so notified and entered.

                                SHORT TITLE                            
      Sections 190 to 196 of this Appendix are popularly known as the
    "Harter Act".

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