Volume 49
Public Law 74–611
To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the transportation of bonded merchandise by other than common carriers under certain conditions.
Approved June 19, 1936
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the transportation of bonded merchandise by other than common carriers under certain conditions.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, when it appears to him to be in the interest of commerce, and notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation requiring that the transportation of imported merchandise be by a bonded common carrier, to permit such merchandise which has been entered and examined for customs purposes to be transported by bonded cart men or bonded lightermen between the ports of New York, Newark, and Perth Amboy, which are all included in Customs Collection District Numbered 10 (New York): Provided,
Proviso.
Rights of ports affected not abridged.
That this resolution shall not be construed to deprive any of the ports affected of its rights and privileges as a port of entry.
Approved, June 19, 1936.