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[CITE: 50USC216]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 13--INSURRECTION
 
Sec. 216. Preventing transportation of goods to aid insurrection

    The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to prohibit and prevent 
the transportation in any vessel, or upon any railroad, turnpike, or 
other road or means of transportation within the United States, of any 
property, whatever may be the ostensible destination of the same, in all 
cases where there are satisfactory reasons to believe that such property 
is intended for any place in the possession or under the control of 
insurgents against the United States, or that there is imminent danger 
that such property will fall into the possession or under the control of 
such insurgents; and he is further authorized, in all cases where he 
deems it expedient so to do, to require reasonable security to be given 
that property shall not be transported to any place under 
insurrectionary control, and shall not, in any way, be used to give aid 
or comfort to such insurgents; and he may establish all such general or 
special regulations as may be necessary or proper to carry into effect 
the purposes of this section; and if any property is transported in 
violation of this chapter, or of any regulation of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, established in pursuance thereof, or if any attempt shall be 
made so to transport any, it shall be forfeited.

(R.S. Sec. 5312.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5312 derived from act May 20, 1862, ch. 81, Sec. 3, 12 
Stat. 404.
