                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
              CHAPTER 3--THE TARIFF AND RELATED PROVISIONS
 
                   SUBTITLE IV--CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION
 
                        Administrative Provisions
 
                     part 5--enforcement provisions
 
Sec. 537. Officers, informers, and defendants as witnesses

    No officer, or other person entitled to or claiming compensation 
under any provision of Act June 22, 1874 (chapter 391, 18 Statutes 188) 
shall be thereby disqualified from becoming a witness in any action, 
suit, or proceeding for the recovery, mitigation, or remission thereof, 
but shall be subject to examination and cross-examination in like manner 
with other witnesses, without being thereby deprived of any right, 
title, share, or interest in any fine, penalty, or forfeiture to which 
such examination may relate; and in every such case the defendant or 
defendants may appear and testify and be examined and cross-examined in 
like manner.

(June 22, 1874, ch. 391, Sec. 8, 18 Stat. 188.)

                       References in Text

    Section 4 of Act June 22, 1874, referred to in text, providing for 
compensation to officers of the customs or other persons detecting goods 
being smuggled, was repealed by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, 
Sec. 643, 42 Stat. 989. For corresponding provisions in the Tariff Act 
of 1930, see section 1619 of this title.
