Title 19 — Customs Duties
Part 3 · Chapter 3 — The Tariff and Related Provisions
§ 340. Consuls to exact proof of invoice
Statutory text
All consular officers are authorized to require, before certifying any invoice, satisfactory evidence, either by the oath of the person presenting such invoices or otherwise, that such invoices are correct and true. In the exercise of the discretion hereby given, the consular officers shall be governed by such general or special regulations or instructions as may from time to time be established or given by the Secretary of State.
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. § 2862.)
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 340
(R.S. § 2862.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 2862.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 2862 derived from act Mar. 3, 1865, ch. 111, 13 Stat. 532.
Credits
(R.S. § 2862.)