Title 19 — Customs Duties
Chapter 1 — Collection Districts, Ports, and Officers
§ 60. Penalty for extortion
Statutory text
Every officer of the customs who demands or receives any other or greater fee, compensation, or reward than is allowed by law, for performing any duty or service required from him by law, shall be liable to a penalty of $200 for each offense, recoverable to the use of the party aggrieved.
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. § 2636.)
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 60
(R.S. § 2636.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 2636.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 2636 derived from act Mar. 2, 1799, ch. 22, § 73, 1 Stat. 680.
Credits
(R.S. § 2636.)