Volume 1
Public Law 1–V
to prevent the exportation of goods not duly inspected according to the laws of the several States.
Approved April 2, 1790
Statutory text
An Act
to prevent the exportation of goods not duly inspected according to the laws of the several States.
Section 1.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the
Collectors, &c. not to grant clearances, until a certificate of inspection is produced.
collectors and other officers of the customs in the several ports of the United States, be, and they are hereby directed to pay due regard to the inspection laws of the states in which they may respectively act, in such manner, that no vessel having on board goods liable to inspection, shall be cleared out until the master or other proper person shall have produced such certificate, that all such goods have been duly inspected, as the laws of the respective states do or may require to be produced to collectors or other officers of the customs.(a)(a)The laws of the United States do not require a person, in order to entitle himself to a clearance, to produce to the collector a certificate of his having complied with the inspection laws of the State, unless the law of the State requires it. Bass et al. v. Steele, 3 Wash. C. C. R. 381.
Approved, .