Title 19 — Customs Duties
Part 5 · Chapter 3 — The Tariff and Related Provisions
§ 537. Officers, informers, and defendants as witnesses
Statutory text
No officer, or other person entitled to or claiming compensation under any provision of Act (chapter 391, 18 Statutes 188) shall be thereby disqualified from becoming a witness in any action, suit, or proceeding for the recovery, mitigation, or remission thereof, but shall be subject to examination and cross-examination in like manner with other witnesses, without being thereby deprived of any right, title, share, or interest in any fine, penalty, or forfeiture to which such examination may relate; and in every such case the defendant or defendants may appear and testify and be examined and cross-examined in like manner.
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.
Pub. L. 42–391 § 8 · 18 Stat. 186
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 537
(June 22, 1874, ch. 391, § 8, 18 Stat. 188.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 22, 1874, ch. 391, § 8, 18 Stat. 188.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 8. That no officer, or other person entitled to or claiming compensation under any provision of this act, shall be thereby disqualified horn becoming a witness in any action, suit, or proceeding for the recovery, mitigation, or remission thereof, but shall be subject to examination and cross-examination in like manner with other witnesses, without being thereby deprived of any right, title, share, or interest in any tine, penalty, or forfeiture to which such examination may relate; Defendant may appear and testify. and in every such case the defendant or defendants may appear and testify and be examined and cross-examined in like manner.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 4 of Act , referred to in text, providing for compensation to officers of the customs or other persons detecting goods being smuggled, was repealed by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, § 643, 42 Stat. 989. For corresponding provisions in the Tariff Act of 1930, see section 1619 of this title.
Credits
(June 22, 1874, ch. 391, § 8, 18 Stat. 188.)