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[CITE: 50USC220]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 13--INSURRECTION
 
Sec. 220. Enforcement of section 219

    It shall be unlawful to take any vessel or cargo detained under 
section 219 of this title from the custody of the proper officers of the 
customs, unless by process of some court of the United States; and in 
case of any attempt otherwise to take such vessel or cargo by any force, 
or combination, or assemblage of persons, too great to be overcome by 
the officers of the customs, the President, or such person as he shall 
have empowered for that purpose, may employ such part of the Army or 
Navy or militia of the United States, or such force of citizen 
volunteers as may be necessary, to prevent the removal of such vessel or 
cargo, and to protect the officers of the customs in retaining the 
custody thereof.

(R.S. Sec. 5316.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5316 derived from act July 12, 1861, ch. 3, Sec. 3, 12 
Stat. 256.

                          Transfer of Functions

    All offices of collector of customs, comptroller of customs, 
surveyor of customs, and appraiser of merchandise of 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 section 221 of this title.
