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[CITE: 50USC219]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 13--INSURRECTION
 
Sec. 219. Removal of customhouse and detention of vessels 
        thereat
        
    Whenever, at any port of entry, the duties on imports cannot, in the 
judgment of the President, be collected in the ordinary way, or by the 
course provided in section 218 \1\ of this title, by reason of the cause 
mentioned in said section, he may direct that the customhouse for the 
district be established in any secure place within the district, either 
on land or on board any vessel in the district, or at sea near the 
coast; and in such case the collector shall reside at such place, or on 
shipboard, as the case may be, and there detain all vessels and cargoes 
arriving within or approaching the district, until the duties imposed by 
law on such vessels and their cargoes are paid in cash. But if the owner 
or consignee of the cargo on board any vessel thus detained, or the 
master of the vessel, desires to enter a port of entry in any other 
district where no such obstructions to the execution of the laws exist, 
the master may be permitted so to change the destination of the vessel 
and cargo in his manifest; whereupon the collector shall deliver him a 
written permit to proceed to the port so designated. And the Secretary 
of the Treasury, with the approval of the President, shall make proper 
regulations for the enforcement on shipboard of such provisions of the 
laws regulating the assessment and collection of duties as in his 
judgment may be necessary and practicable.
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(R.S. Sec. 5315.)

                       References in Text

    Section 218 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. 
L. 89-554, Sec. 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632.

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5315 derived from acts July 13, 1861, ch. 3, Sec. 2, 12 
Stat. 256; Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 136, Sec. 2, 18 Stat. 469.

                          Transfer of Functions

    All offices of collector of customs, comptroller of customs, 
surveyor of customs, and appraiser of merchandise of the Bureau of 
Customs of Department of the Treasury to which appointments were 
required to be made by President with advice and consent of Senate 
ordered abolished, with such offices to be terminated not later than 
Dec. 31, 1966, by Reorg. Plan No. 1, of 1965, eff. May 25, 1965, 30 F.R. 
7035, 79 Stat. 1317, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees. All functions of offices eliminated were 
already vested in Secretary of the Treasury by Reorg. Plan No. 26 of 
1950, eff. July 31, 1950, 15 F.R. 4935, 64 Stat. 1280, set out in the 
Appendix to Title 5.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 220, 221 of this title.
