Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 52 — Foreign Service
§ 4205. Retention of papers of American vessels until payment of demands and wages
Statutory text
All consular officers are authorized and required to retain in their possession all the papers of vessels of the United States, which shall be deposited with them as directed by law, till payment shall be made of all demands and wages on account of such vessels.
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. § 1718.)
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 4205
(R.S. § 1718.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 1718.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 1718 derived from act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 127, § 28, 11 Stat. 63.
Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter.
Section was formerly classified to section 1185 of this title, and prior thereto to section 88 of this title.
Credits
(R.S. § 1718.)