Title 50 — War and National Defense
Chapter 13 — Insurrection
§ 211. Investigations to detect and prevent frauds and abuses
Statutory text
It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, from time to time, to institute such investigations as may be necessary to detect and prevent frauds and abuses in any trade or transactions which may be licensed between inhabitants of loyal States and of States in insurrection. And the agents making such investigations shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, and to make examinations on oath.
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. § 5307.)
Enacted · 50 U.S.C. § 211
(R.S. § 5307.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 5307.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 5307 derived from act July 2, 1864, ch. 225, § 10, 13 Stat. 377.
Credits
(R.S. § 5307.)