                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
       Part III--Ascertainment, Collection, and Recovery of Duties
 
Sec. 1495. Partnership bond

    When any bond is required by law or regulations to be executed by 
any partnership for any purpose connected with the transaction of 
business at any customhouse, the execution of such bond by any member of 
such partnership shall bind the other partners in like manner and to the 
same extent as if such other partners had personally joined in the 
execution, and an action or suit may be instituted on such bond against 
all partners as if all had executed the same.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 495, 46 Stat. 727.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act 
Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, Sec. 495, 42 Stat. 964. That section 
was superseded by section 495 of act June 17, 1930, comprising this 
section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.
    Provisions substantially similar to those in this section, except 
that they applied to bonds for the payment of duties or for any other 
purpose connected with the general transaction of business at any 
customs house, were contained in act June 20, 1876, ch. 136, 19 Stat. 
60, as amended by act Aug. 27, 1894, ch. 349, Sec. 70, 28 Stat. 569, 
prior to repeal by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, Sec. 643, 42 
Stat. 989.
