§ 338. Indorsement upon invoice; port of entry

Statutory text

The person producing an invoice for certification shall at the same time declare to the consul or vice consul the port in the United States at which it is intended to make entry of merchandise; whereupon the consul, or vice consul, shall indorse upon each of the triplicates a certificate, under his hand and official seal, stating that the invoice has been produced to him, with the date of such production, and the name of the person by whom the same was produced, and the port in the United States at which it shall be the declared intention to make entry of the merchandise therein mentioned.

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.

undated
R.S. § 2855
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 338
R.S. § 2855
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 2855

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Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 2855 derived from act Mar. 3, 1863, ch. 76, § 1, 12 Stat. 738.

Section is based on the first sentence of R.S. § 2855. The second sentence of R.S. § 2855, which related to the disposition of certified copies of invoices, was superseded by section 482(e) of the Tariff Act of 1922, and later by section 482(e) of the Tariff Act of 1933 which is classified to section 1482(e) of this title.

Credits

1906 · 2 acts

R.S. § 2855
1906Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, § 3, 34 Stat. 100.

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(R.S. § 2855; Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, § 3, 34 Stat. 100.)