Penalty for master opening mail bag, etc

(1) Every master of a vessel who, (a) opens a mail bag or postal packet with which he is entrusted for conveyance; (b) takes out of a mail bag or postal packet with which he is entrusted for conveyance a letter or any other thing; or (c) fails to deliver a mail bag or postal packet with the contents at the Post Office on his arrival without wilful or avoidable delay after his arrival, shall forfeit two hundred dollars. (2) Every person who breaks the seal of, or in any manner wilfully opens, any letter entrusted to him by the master of a vessel to bring ashore shall forfeit two hundred dollars.