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[CITE: 50USC221]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 13--INSURRECTION
 
Sec. 221. Closing ports of entry; forfeiture of vessels seeking 
        to enter closed port
        
    Whenever, in any collection district, the duties on imports can not, 
in the judgment of the President, be collected in the ordinary way, nor 
in the manner provided by sections 218 \1\ to 220 of this title, by 
reason of the cause mentioned in section 218 of this title, the 
President may close the port of entry in that district; and shall in 
such case give notice thereof by proclamation. And thereupon all right 
of importation, warehousing, and other privileges incident to ports of 
entry shall cease and be discontinued at such port so closed until it is 
opened by the order of the President on the cessation of such 
obstructions. Every vessel from beyond the United States, or having on 
board any merchandise liable to duty, which attempts to enter any port 
which has been closed under this section, shall, with her tackle, 
apparel, furniture, and cargo, be forfeited.
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(R.S. Sec. 5317.)

                       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    Section 218 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub.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. 5317 derived from act July 12, 1861, ch. 3, Sec. 4, 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.
