                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                     SUBTITLE II--SPECIAL PROVISIONS
 
                          Part I--Miscellaneous
 
Sec. 1310. Free importation of merchandise recovered from sunken 
        and abandoned vessels
        
    Whenever any vessel laden with merchandise, in whole or in part 
subject to duty, has been sunk in any river, harbor, bay, or waters 
subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and within its limits, 
for the period of two years and is abandoned by the owner thereof, any 
person who may raise such vessel shall be permitted to bring any 
merchandise recovered therefrom into the port nearest to the place where 
such vessel was so raised free from the payment of any duty thereupon, 
but under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may 
prescribe.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title III, Sec. 310, 46 Stat. 691.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act 
Oct. 3, 1913, ch. 16, Sec. IV, L, 38 Stat. 197, superseding similar 
provisions of previous tariff acts. That section was superseded by act 
Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title III, Sec. 310, 42 Stat. 938, and repealed 
by section 321 of that act. Section 310 of act Sept. 21, 1922, was 
superseded by section 310 of act June 17, 1930, and repealed by section 
651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.
