Volume 29
Public Law 54–394
To amend section forty of “An Act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes,” approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, so as to authorize the sale of forfeited domestic smoking opium to the highest bidder.
Approved March 3, 1897
Statutory text
An Act
To amend section forty of “An Act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes,” approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, so as to authorize the sale of forfeited domestic smoking opium to the highest bidder.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section forty of an Act
Opium.
Sale of forfeited domestic, prepared.
entitled “An Act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes,” approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended by adding at the end of said section the words “and may be sold to the highest bidder, pursuant to the provisions of section thirty-four hundred and sixty, Revised Statutes, if not valued
Vol. 26, p. 621.
R. S. sec. 3460, p. 685.
as therein provided at over five hundred dollars; but if valued at more than five hundred dollars the sale shall be made pursuant to the judgment of the court in the proceedings for condemnation or forfeiture.”
Approved, .