Volume 15
Public Law 40–CCLIV
to amend Section one of “An Act to prevent and punish Frauds upon the Revenue, and for other Purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.
Approved July 27, 1868
Statutory text
An Act
to amend Section one of “An Act to prevent and punish Frauds upon the Revenue, and for other Purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of America in Congress assembled,
That the act entitled “An act
Declaration to truth of invoices in certain cases, may be made to, &c.
to prevent and punish frauds upon the revenue, to provide for [the] more certain and speedy collection of claims in favor of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding to section one thereof an additional proviso, as follows: And provided further, That in case of goods, wares, and merchandise, imported from a foreign country adjacent to the United States, the declaration in this section hereinbefore required may be made to, and the certificate endorsed by, the consul, vice-consul, or commercial agent, at or nearest to the port or place of clearance for the United States.
Approved, .