                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
     Part IV--Transportation in Bond and Warehousing of Merchandise
 
Sec. 1556. Bonded warehouses; regulations for establishing

    The Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time establish such 
rules and regulations as may be necessary for the establishment of 
bonded warehouses and to protect the interests of the Government in the 
conduct, management, and operation of such warehouses and in the 
withdrawal of and accounting for merchandise deposited therein.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 556, 46 Stat. 743.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act 
Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, Sec. 556, 42 Stat. 976. That section 
was superseded by section 556 of act June 17, 1930, comprising this 
section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.
    Prior provisions on the subject matter of this section were 
contained in R.S. Sec. 2989, as amended by act Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, 
Sec. 1, 19 Stat. 247, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to 
establish rules and regulations for the execution of the provisions of 
that chapter (chapter 7 of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes, The Bond 
and Warehouse System); and in act June 22, 1874, ch. 391, Sec. 24, 18 
Stat. 191, authorizing the Secretary to make regulations for the conduct 
and management of bonded warehouses, general order stores and other 
depositories, and to revise, alter or revoke regulations or orders, 
issued by collectors, prohibiting the bonding of warehouses or the 
establishment of general order stores without his authority and 
approval, and making it his duty to require warehouses to be located 
contiguous, or as near as might be, to landing places of vessels. These 
sections were repealed by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, 
Secs. 642, 643, 42 Stat. 989.
