                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
      Part II--Report, Entry, and Unlading of Vessels and Vehicles
 
Sec. 1461. Inspection of merchandise and baggage

    All merchandise and baggage imported or brought in from any 
contiguous country, except as otherwise provided by law or by 
regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be unladen in the 
presence of and be inspected by a customs officer at the first port of 
entry at which the same shall arrive; and such officer may require the 
owner, or his agent, or other person having charge or possession of any 
trunk, traveling bag, sack, valise, or other container, or of any closed 
vehicle, to open the same for inspection, or to furnish a key or other 
means for opening the same.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 461, 46 Stat. 717.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in R.S. 
Sec. 3100, as amended by act Feb. 18, 1875, ch. 80, Sec. 1, 18 Stat. 
319, and act Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, Sec. 1, 19 Stat. 248, which was 
superseded by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, Sec. 461, 42 Stat. 
956, and was repealed by section 642 thereof. Section 461 of the 1922 
act was superseded by section 461 of act June 17, 1930, comprising this 
section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.
