                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
              CHAPTER 3--THE TARIFF AND RELATED PROVISIONS
 
                   SUBTITLE IV--CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION
 
                        Administrative Provisions
 
       part 2--report, entry, and unlading of vessels and vehicles
 
Sec. 293. Documented vessels touching at foreign ports

    Any United States documented vessel with a registry or coastwise 
endorsement, or both, may engage in trade between one port in the United 
States and one or more ports within the same, with the privilege of 
touching at one or more foreign ports during the voyage, and land and 
take in thereat merchandise, passengers and their baggage, and letters, 
and mails.

(R.S. Sec. 3126; Pub. L. 91-271, title III, Sec. 318, June 2, 1970, 84 
Stat. 293; Pub. L. 103-182, title VI, Sec. 686(a)(2), Dec. 8, 1993, 107 
Stat. 2220; Pub. L. 104-295, Sec. 21(e)(1), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 
3530.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 3126 derived from act May 27, 1848, ch. 48, Sec. 1, 9 
Stat. 232.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-295 inserted comma after ``or both''.
    1993--Pub. L. 103-182 substituted ``Any United States documented 
vessel with a registry or coastwise endorsement, or both'' for ``Any 
vessel, on being duly registered in pursuance of the laws of the United 
States,'' and struck out at end ``All such vessels shall be furnished by 
the appropriate customs officers of the ports at which they shall take 
in their cargoes in the United States, with certified manifests, setting 
forth the particulars of the cargoes, the marks, number of packages, by 
whom shipped, to whom consigned, at what port to be delivered; 
designating such merchandise as is entitled to drawback, or to the 
privilege of being placed in warehouse; and the masters of all such 
vessels shall, on their arrival at any port of the United States from 
any foreign port at which such vessel may have touched, as herein 
provided, conform to the laws providing for the delivery of manifests of 
cargo and passengers taken on board at such foreign port, and all other 
laws regulating the report and entry of vessels from foreign ports, and 
be subject to all the penalties therein prescribed.''
    1970--Pub. L. 91-271 substituted reference to appropriate customs 
officers for reference to collectors.


                    Effective Date of 1970 Amendment

    For effective date of amendment by Pub. L. 91-271, see section 203 
of Pub. L. 91-271, set out as an Effective Date of 1970 Amendment note 
under section 1500 of this title.
