                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
              CHAPTER 3--THE TARIFF AND RELATED PROVISIONS
 
                   SUBTITLE IV--CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION
 
                        Administrative Provisions
 
        part 3--ascertainment, collection, and recovery of duties
 
Sec. 338. Indorsement upon invoice; port of entry

    The person producing an invoice for certification shall at the same 
time declare to the consul or vice consul the port in the United States 
at which it is intended to make entry of merchandise; whereupon the 
consul, or vice consul, shall indorse upon each of the triplicates a 
certificate, under his hand and official seal, stating that the invoice 
has been produced to him, with the date of such production, and the name 
of the person by whom the same was produced, and the port in the United 
States at which it shall be the declared intention to make entry of the 
merchandise therein mentioned.

(R.S. Sec. 2855; Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, Sec. 3, 34 Stat. 100.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2855 derived from act Mar. 3, 1863, ch. 76, Sec. 1, 12 
Stat. 738.
    Section is based on the first sentence of R.S. Sec. 2855. The second 
sentence of R.S. Sec. 2855, which related to the disposition of 
certified copies of invoices, was superseded by section 482(e) of the 
Tariff Act of 1922, and later by section 482(e) of the Tariff Act of 
1933 which is classified to section 1482(e) of this title.
