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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 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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