Title 19 — Customs Duties
Part 1 · Chapter 3 — The Tariff and Related Provisions
§ 233. Departure from prescribed forms
Statutory text
In cases where the forms of official documents, as prescribed by title 34 of the Revised Statutes, shall be substantially complied with and observed, according to the true intent thereof, no penalty or forfeiture shall be incurred by a deviation therefrom.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
(R.S. § 2769.)
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 233
(R.S. § 2769.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 2769.)
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
Title 34 of the Revised Statutes, referred to in text, was in the original “this Title”, meaning title 34 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. §§ 2517 to 3129. For complete classification of R.S. §§ 2517 to 3129 to the Code, see Tables.
Codification
R.S. § 2769 derived from act Mar. 2, 1799, ch. 22, § 111, 1 Stat. 704.
Credits
(R.S. § 2769.)