                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                    Part VI--Miscellaneous Provisions
 
Sec. 1645. Transportation and interment of remains of deceased 
        employees in foreign countries; travel or shipping expenses 
        incurred on foreign ships
        

(a) Transfers in foreign countries

    The expense of transporting the remains of customs officers and 
employees who die while in or in transit to foreign countries in the 
discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this 
country for interment, and the ordinary and necessary expenses for such 
interment, at their posts of duty or at home, are authorized to be paid 
upon the written order of the Secretary of the Treasury. The expenses 
authorized by this subdivision shall be paid from the appropriation for 
the collection of the revenue from customs.

(b) Transportation on foreign ships

    Notwithstanding the provisions of section 601 of the Merchant Marine 
Act, 1928, or of any other law, any allowance, within the limitations 
prescribed by law, for travel or shipping expenses incurred on a foreign 
ship by any officer or employee of the Bureau of Customs or the Customs 
Service, shall be credited if the Secretary of the Treasury certifies to 
the Comptroller General that transportation on such foreign ship was 
necessary to protect the revenue.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 645(a), (c), 46 Stat. 761; Aug. 
2, 1946, ch. 744, Sec. 2, 60 Stat. 807.)

                       References in Text

    Section 601 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1928 [46 U.S.C. 891r], 
referred to in text, was repealed by the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 
(approved June 29, 1936, ch. 858, Sec. 903(c), 49 Stat. 2016), but was 
reenacted in substance by section 901 of that Act, which is classified 
to section 1241 of Title 46, Appendix, Shipping.

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of subsecs. (a) and (c) of section 645 of act 
June 17, 1930. Subsec. (b) of section 645 repealed in part section 48 of 
this title.


                               Amendments

    1946--Subsec. (a). Act Aug. 2, 1946, eff. Nov. 1, 1946, repealed 
first sentence relating to traveling expenses of transferred employees. 
See section 5729 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

                         Change of Name

    Bureau of Customs redesignated United States Customs Service by 
Treasury Department Order 165-23, Apr. 4, 1973, eff. Aug. 1, 1973, 38 
F.R. 13037. See, also, section 308 of Title 31, Money and Finance.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of all officers of Department of the Treasury and 
functions of all agencies and employees of such Department transferred, 
with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Treasury, with power vested 
in him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his 
functions, by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by Reorg. 
Plan No. 26, of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. July 31, 1950, 15 F.R. 4935, 64 
Stat. 1280, 1281, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees. Bureau of Customs and Customs Service, 
referred to in text, are under Department of the Treasury.
