tions, and other documents or papers required by law or regulations made in pursuance thereof upon the entry of imported merchandise; and that he will comply with all the requirements of the laws or regulations made in pursuance thereof relating to the importation and admission of such merchandise and will return to the collector, when demanded by such collector, not later than ten days after the appraiser's report, such of the merchandise as was not sent to the public stores, and also will return to the collector, on demand by him, any and all merchandise found not to comply with the law and regulations governing its admission into the commerce of the United States. Such bond shall be given in a form and in a penalty to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the penalty thereof to be paid as liquidated damages: Provided, That instead of a bond upon each entry the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe a bond to be taken from any consignee to cover all importations entered by him within a period of one year from the date thereof. ACT OF 1930 (b) DEPOSITS IN LIEU OF BONDS.-The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to permit the deposit of money or obligations of the United States, in such amount and upon such conditions as he may by regulations prescribe, in lieu of any bond required by the provisions of the customs laws, or by regulations promulgated thereunder. [No corresponding provision in act of 1913.] [Nc corresponding provision in act of 1922.] ACT OF 1930 SEC. 624. GENERAL REGULATIONS. In addition to the specific powers conferred by this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. (a) REGULATIONS FOR LICENSING.-The Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe rules and regula tions governing the licensing as customhouse brokers of citizens of the United States of good moral char acter, and of corporations, associations, and partnerships, and may require as a condition to the granting of any license, the showing of such facts as he may deem advisable as to the qualifications of the applicant to render valuable service to importers and exporters. No such license shall be granted to any corpora tion, association, or partnership unless licenses as customhouse brokers have been issued to at least two of the officers of such corporation or association, or two of the members of such partnership, and such licenses are in force. Any license granted to any such corporation, association, or partnership shall be deemed revoked if for any continuous period of more than sixty days after the issuance of such license there are not at least two officers of such corporation or association or two members of such partnership who are qualified to transact business as customhouse brokers. Except as provided in subdivision (e) of this section, no person shall transact business as a customhouse broker without a license granted in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision, but nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the requiring of a license in the case of any person transacting at a customhouse business pertaining to his own importations. (b) REVOCATION OR SUSPENSION.-The collector or chief officer of the customs may at any time, for good and sufficient reasons, serve notice in writing upon any customhouse broker so licensed to show cause why said license shall not be revoked or suspended, which notice shall be in the form of a statement specifically setting forth the ground of compalint. The collector or chief officer of customs shall within ten days thereafter notify the customhouse broker in writing of a hearing to be held before him within five days upon said charges. At such hearing the customhouse broker may be represented by counsel, and all proceedings including the proof of the charges and the answer thereto, shall be presented, with the right of cross-examination to both parties, and a stenographic record of the same shall be made and a copy thereof shall be delivered to the customhouse broker. At the conclusion of such hearing the collector or chief officer of customs shall forthwith transmit all papers and the stenographic report of the hearing, which shall constitute the record in the case, to the Secretary of the Treasury for his action. Thereupon the said Secretary of the Treasury shall have the right to revoke or suspend the license of any customhouse broker, in which case formal notice shall be given such customhouse broker within ten days. (c) APPEAL FROM SECRETARY'S DECISION.-Any licensed custom house broker aggrieved by the decision of the Secretary of the Treasury may, within thirty days thereafter, and not afterwards, apply to the United States Customs Court for a review of such decision. Such application shall be made by filing in the office of the clerk of said court a petition praying relief in the premises. Thereupon the court shall immediately ACT OF 1930 give notice in writing of such application to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall forthwith transmit to said court the record and evidence taken in the case, together with a statement of his decision therein. The filing of such application shall operate as a stay of the revocation or suspension of the license. The matter may be brought on to be heard before the said court in the same manner as a motion, by either the Assistant Attorney General or the attorney for the custom house broker, and the decision of said United States Customs Court shall be upon the merits as disclosed by the record and be final, and the proceedings remanded to the Secretary of the Treasury for further action to be taken in accordance with the terms of the decree. (d) REGULATIONS BY SECRETARY.-The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe regulations necessary or convenient for carrying this section into effect. (e) LICENSES UNDER ACT OF JUNE 10, 1910.-The Act entitled "An Act to license custom house brokers," approved June 10, 1910, is hereby repealed, except that any license issued under such Act shall continue in force and effect, subject to suspension and revocation in the same manner and upon the same conditions as licenses issued pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section. ACT OF 1913 [No corresponding provisions.] 20 ACT OF 1922 [No corresponding provisions.] 20 ACT OF 1930 SEC. 642. INVESTIGATION OF METHODS OF VALUATION. The President is requested (1) to cause a survey to be made, by such agency or agencies as he may desig nate or appoint, of bases for the valuation of imported merchandise for the assessment of customs duties, particularly with a view to determining the extent to which values in the United States may properly be used as a basis for the assessment of customs duties; and (2) to submit to the Congress, at the earliest practicable date, a report thereon, with such recommendations for legislation as he may deem advisable, including such formulæ as he may propose for adjusting the rates of duty imposed by this Act to conform to any change in basis he may recommend. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section, to be expended in the discretion of the President. SEC. 643. APPLICATION OF CUSTOMS REORGANIZATION ACT. The rights, privileges, powers, and duties vested in or imposed upon the Secretary of the Treasury by this Act shall be subject to the provisions of subdivision (a) of section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to create a Bureau of Customs and a Bureau of Prohibition in the Department of the Treasury," approved March 3, 1927. SEC. 644. APPLICATION OF AIR COMMERCE ACT OF 1926. The authority vested by section 7 of the Air Commerce Act of 1926 in the Secretary of the Treasury, and in the Secretary of Commerce, by regulation to provide for the application to civil air navigation of the laws and regulations relating to the administration of customs, and of the laws and regulations relating to the entry and clearance of vessels, respectively, shall extend to the application in like manner of any of the provisions of this Act or of any regulations promulgated hereunder. 20 The acts of 1913 and 1922 left unchanged the act of June 10, 1910, relating to the licensing of customhouse brokers, which was as follows: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the collector or chief officer of the customs at any port of entry or delivery shall, upon application, issue to any person of good moral character, being a citizen of the United States a license to transact business as a custom-house broker in the collection district in which such license is issued, and on and after sixty days from the approval of this Act no person shall transact business as a custom-house broker without a license granted in accordance with this provision; but this Act shall not be so construed as to prohibit any person from transacting business at a custom-house pertaining to his own importations. SEC. 2. That the collector or chief officer of the customs may at any time, for good and sufficient reasons, serve notice in writing upon any custom-house broker so licensed to show cause why said license shall not be revoked, which notice shall be in the form of a statement specifically setting forth the grounds of complaint. The collector or chief officer of customs shall within ten days thereafter notify the custom-house broker in writing of a hearing to be held before him within five days upon said charges. At such hearing the custom-house broker may be represented by counsel, and all proceedings, including the proof of the charges and the answer thereto, shall be presented, with right of cross-examination to both parties, and a stenographic record of the same shall be made and a copy thereof shall be delivered to the custom-house broker. At the conclusion of such hearing the collector or chief officer of customs shall forthwith transmit all papers and the stenographic report of the hearing, which shall constitute the record in the case, to the Secretary of the Treasury for his action. Thereupon the said Secretary of the Treasury shall have the right to revoke the license of any custom-house broker, in which case formal notice shall be given such customhouse broker within ten days. SEC. 3. That any licensed custom-house broker aggrieved by the decision of the Secretary of the Treasury may, within thirty days thereafter, and not afterwards, apply to the United States circuit court for the circuit in which the collection district is situated for a review of such decision. Such application shall be made by filing in the office of the clerk of said court a petition praying relief in the premises. Thereupon the court shall immediately give notice in writing of such application to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall forthwith transmit to said court the record and evidence taken in the case, together with a statement of his decision therein. The filing of such application shall operate as a stay of the revocation of the license. The matter may be brought on to be heard before the said court in the same manner as a motion, by either the United States district attorney or the attorney for the custom-house broker, and the decision of said United States circuit court for the circuit in which the collection district is situated shall be upon the merits as disclosed by the record and be final, and the proceedings remanded to the Secretary of the Treasury for further action to be taken in accordance with the terms of the decree. SEC. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe regulations necessary or convenient for carrying this Act into effect. SEC. 5. That the word person wherever used in this Act shall include persons, copartnerships, associa tions, joint stock associations and corporations. Approved, June 10, 1910. ACT OF 1930 SEC. 645. TRAVEL AND SUBSISTENCE. (a) TRANSFERS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.-In the case of a transfer to or from an official station in a foreign country, or from one official station to another in a foreign country, customs officers and employees may be allowed, within the discretion and under written orders of the Secretary of the Treasury, the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of their families in respect of such transfer. The expense of transporting the remains of customs officers and employees who die while in or in transit to foreign countries in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and the ordinary and necessary expenses for such interment, at their posts of duty or at home, are hereby authorized to be paid upon the written order of the Secretary of the Treasury. The expenses authorized by this subdivision shall be paid from the appropriation for the collection of the revenue from customs. (b) TRANSFER OF HOUSEHOLD AND PERSONAL EFFECTS.-So much of the Act entitled "An Act to provide the necessary organization of the Customs Service for an adequate administration and enforcement of the Tariff Act of 1922 and all other customs revenue laws", approved March 4, 1923, as amended, as limits the amount of household effects and other personal property of customs officers and employees for which expenses may be allowed upon transfer from one official station to another, is hereby repealed. (c) TRANSPORTATION ON FOREIGN SHIPS.-Notwithstanding the provisions of section 601 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1928, or of any other law, any allowance, within the limitations prescribed by law, for travel or shipping expenses incurred on a foreign ship by any officer or employee of the Bureau of Customs or the Customs Service, shall be credited if the Secretary of the Treasury certifies to the Comptroller General that transportation on such foreign ship was necessary to protect the revenue. SEC. 646. TENURE AND RETIREMENT OF JUDGES OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF CUSTOMS AND PATENT APPEALS. 21 The judges of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals shall hold office during good behavior. For the purposes of section 260 of the Judicial Code, as amended (relating to the resignation and retirement of judges of courts of the United States) any service heretofore rendered by any present or former judge of such court, including service rendered prior to March 2, 1929, shall be considered as having been rendered under an appointment to hold office during good behavior. SEC. 647. REVIEW OF DECISIONS OF COURT OF CUSTOMS AND PATENT APPEALS. 21 So much of section 195 of the Judicial Code, as amended, as reads "in any case in which there is drawn in question the construction of the Constitution of the United States, or any part thereof, or of any treaty made pursuant thereto, or in any other case when the Attorney General of the United States shall, before the decision of the Court of Customs Appeals is rendered, file with the court a certificate to the effect that the case is of such importance as to render expedient its review by the Supreme Court," is hereby repealed. SEC. 648. UNCERTIFIED CHECKS, UNITED STATES NOTES, AND NATIONAL BANK NOTES RECEIVABLE FOR CUSTOMS DUTIES. Collectors of customs may receive uncertified checks, United States notes, and circulating notes of national banking associations in payment of duties on imports, during such time and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but if a check so received is not paid the person by whom such check has been tendered shall remain liable for the payment of the duties and for all legal penalties and additions to the same extent as if such check had not been tendered.. SEC. 649. CHANGE IN DESIGNATION OF CUSTOMS ATTACHÉS. SEC. 650. APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to appoint, in accordance with the civil service laws, a deputy commissioner in the Bureau of Customs, in addition to the deputy commissioners now authorized by law. (a) SPECIFIC REPEALS.-The following Acts and parts of Acts are repealed, subject to the limitations provided in subdivision (c): (1) The Tariff Act of 1922, except that the repeal of sections 304 and 482 (relating to marking of imported articles and to certified invoices, respectively) shall take effect sixty days after the enactment of this Act; (2) Section 16 of the Act entitled "An Act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying trade and for other purposes," approved June 26, 1884, as amended (relating to supplies for certain vessels); 22 (3) The Joint Resolution entitled "Joint Resolution Authorizing certain customs officials to administer oaths," approved April 2, 1928: 23 and (4) Section 2804 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (relating to limitations on importation packages of cigars). SEC. IV. * ACT OF 1913 S. That, except as hereinafter provided, sections one to forty-two both inclusive, of an Act entitled "An Act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes," approved August fifth, nine ACT OF 1922 SEC. 321. That, except as hereinafter provided, Sections I and IV of the Act of October 3, 1913, chapter 16, as amended; the Act of July 26, 1911, chapter 3; so much of section 4132 of the Revised Statutes as amended by the Act of August 24, 1912, chapter 390, as relates to the free admission of ma 21 The title of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals was changed from United States Court of Customs Appeals by the Act of March 2, 1929, 45 Stat. L. 1475. 22 See sec. 309. 23 See sec. 486. ACT OF 1922 terials for the construction or repair of vessels and the building or repair of their machinery and articles for their outfit and equipment; and so much of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of March 2, 1895, chapter 189, as relates to the sampling and assaying of lead ores, are hereby repealed: SEC. 642. REVISED STATUTES. The following sections of the Revised Statutes, as amended, are hereby repealed: 909, 2520, 2521, 2524, 2537, 2540, 2554, 2561, 2581, 2588, 2589, 2590, 2609, 2610, 2637, 2638, 2652, 2770, 2771, 2772, 2773, 2774, 2775, 2776, 2777, 2778, 2779, 2780, 2781, 2782, 2783, 2784, 2785, 2786, 2787, 2788, 2789, 2790, 2791, 2794, 2795, 2796, 2797, 2798, 2799, 2800, 2801, 2802, 2803, 2805, 2806, 2807, 2808, 2809, 2810, 2811, 2812, 2813, 2814, 2815, 2816, 2817, 2818, 2819, 2820, 2821, 2822, 2823, 2824, 2825, 2826, 2827, 2828, 2829, 2830, 2831, 2832, 2833, 2834, 2836, 2837, 2840, 2842, 2844, 2846, 2847, 2848, 2849, 2850, 2852, 2857, 2859, 2864, 2865, 2867, 2858, 2869, 2870, 2872, 2873, 2874, 2875, 2876, 2877, 2878, 2879, 2880, 2881, 2882, 2883, 2884, 2887, 2888, 2889, 2890, 2891, 2892, 2893, 2894, 2895, 2896, 2898, 2899, 2901, 2906, 2910, 2911, 2912, 2913, 2914, 2915, 2916, 2920, 2921, 2925, 2926, 2928, 2933, 2935, 2936, 2937, 2939, 2945, 2946, 2947, 2948, 2949, 2950, 2953, 2954, 2955, 2956, 2957, 2958, 2959, 2960, 2961, 2962, 2963, 2964, 2965, 2966, 2967, 2968, 2969, 2970, 2971, 2972, 2973, 2974, 2975, 2976, 2977, 2978, 2979, 2980, 2981, 2982, 2983, 2984, 2985, 2986, 2987, 2988, 2989, 2998, 3000, 3001, 3002, 3003, 3004, 3005, 3006, 3007, 3008, 3010, 3015, 3016, 3017, 3018, 3019, 3020, 3021, 3022, 3023, 3024, 3025, 3026, 3028, 3029, 3030, 3031, 3032, 3033, 3034, 3035, 3036, 3037, 3038, 3039, 3040, 3041, 3042, 3043, 3044, 3045, 3046, 3047, 3049, 3050, 3051, 3052, 3053, 3054, 3055, 3056, 3057, 3058, 3059, 3060, 3063, 3064, 3065, 3066, 3067, 3069, 3070, 3074, 3075, 3076, 3077, 3078, 3079, 3080, 3081, 3082, 3083, 3084, 3085, 3086, 3088, 3090, 3095, 3096, 3097, 3098, 3099, 3100, 3101, 3102, 3103, 3104, 3105, 3106, 3107, 3108, 3110, 3120, 3121, 3123, 3128, 3129, 4209, 4210, 4211, 5292, and 5293. SEC. 643.-STATUTES AT LARGE.-The following Acts and parts of Acts are hereby repealed: The Act of March 24, 1874, chapter 65; Act of June 22, 1874, chapter 391, sections 3, 4, 6, 7, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, and 25; Act of March 3, 1875, chapter 136; Act of May 1, 1876, chapter 89; Act of June 20, 1876, chapter 136, as amended; Act of June 10, 1880, chapter 190, as amended; Act of February 8, 1881, chapter 34; Act of February 23, 1887, chapter 218; Act of June 10, 1890, chapter 407, as amended, except sections 12 and 22; Act of March 2, 1895, chapter 177, section 9; Act of February 2, 1899, chapter 84; Act of February 13, 1911, chapter 46, sections 1, 2, 3, and 4; Act of October 3, 1913, chapter 16, section III; and Titles I, III and V of the Act entitled "An Act Imposing temporary duties upon certain agricultural products to meet present emergencies, and to provide revenue; to regulate commerce with foreign countries; to prevent dumping of foreign merchandise on the markets of the United States; to regulate the value of foreign money; and for other purposes," approved May 27, 1921, as amended. ACT OF 1930 (b) GENERAL REPEAL.-All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. IV. S. * # * * * all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed: * SEC. 644. GENERAL REPEAL.-All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. (c) RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES UNDER ACTS REPEALED OR MODIFIED.-The repeal of existing laws or mod fications or reenactments thereof embraced in this Act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruin or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil or criminal case prior to such repeal modifications, or reenactments, but all liabilities under such laws shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner as if such repeal, modifications, or reenactments had not been made. All offenses committed and all penalties, under any statute embraced in, or changed, modified, or repealed by this Act, may be prosecuted and punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed. No Acts of limitation now in force, whether applicable to civil causes and proceedings, or to the prosecution of offenses or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures embraced in, modified, changed, or repealed by this Act shall be affected thereby so far as they affect any suits, proceedings, or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes arising or acts done or committed prior to the taking effect of this Act, which may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed. SEC. IV. * * S.* * * but the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof embraced in this Act shall SEC. 641. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES.-The repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof embraced in this Act shall not affect any act done, nor any ACT OF 1913 not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil case before the said repeal or modification; but all rights and liabilities under said laws shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner as if said repeal or modifications had not been made. Any offenses committed and all penalties or forfeitures or liabilities incurred prior to the passage of this Act under any statute embraced in or changed, modified, or repealed by this Act may be prosecuted or punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed. No Acts of limitation now in force, whether applicable to civil causes and proceedings or to the prosecution of offenses or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures embraced in or modified, changed, or repealed by this Act shall be affected thereby so far as they affect any suits, proceedings, or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes arising or acts done or committed prior to the passage of this Act, which may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed. ACT OF 1922 right accruing or accrued, nor any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil or criminal case prior to said repeal or modifications, but all liabilities under said laws shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner as if said repeal or modifications had not been made. All offenses committed and all penalties, forfeitures, or liabilities incurred prior to the taking effect hereof, under any statute embraced in, or changed, modified, or repealed by this Act, may be prosecuted and punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed. No acts of limitation now in force, whether applicable to civil causes and proceedings, or to the prosecution of offenses or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures embraced in, modified, changed, or repealed by this Act shall be affected thereby so far as they affect any suits, proceedings, or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes arising or acts done or committed prior to the taking effect of this Act, which may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed. ACT OF 1930 (d) CERTAIN ACTS NOT AFFECTED.-Nothing in this Act shall be construed to amend or repeal any of the following provisions of law: (1) Subsections 1, 2, and 3 of paragraph J of Section IV of the Act entitled "An Act to reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes," approved October 3, 1913 (relating to restrictions on importations in foreign vessels or through contiguous countries), as modified by the Act of March 4, 1915, chapter 171; 24 (2) Subsection 2 of paragraph N of Section IV of such Act of October 3, 1913 (relating to the manufacture of alcohol for denaturization only); 25 (3) Section 30 of the Act entitled "An Act to simplify the laws in relation to the collection of the revenues, approved June 10, 1890, as amended (providing for an Assistant Attorney General in charge of customs matters); (4) The Act entitled "An Act relating to the use or disposal of vessels or vehicles forfeited to the United States for violation of the customs laws or the National Prohibition Act, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1925; nor J. Subsection 1. That a discriminating duty of 10 percentum ad valorem, in addition to the duties imposed by law, shall be levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wares, or merchandise which shall be imported in vessels not of the United States, or which being the production or manufacture of any foreign country not contiguous to the United States, shall come into the United States from such contiguous country; but this discriminating duty shall not apply to goods, wares, or merchandise which shall be imported in vessels not of the United States entitled at the time of such importation by treaty or convention or Act of Congress to be entered in the ports of the United States on payment of the same duties as shall then be payable on goods, wares, and merchandise imported in vessels of the United States, nor to such foreign products or manufactures as shall be imported from such contiguous countries in the usual course of strictly retail trade. J. Subsection 2. That no goods, wares, or merchandise, unless in cases provided for by treaty, shall be imported into the United States from any foreign port or place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such foreign vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of that country of which the goods are the growth, production, or manufacture, or from which such goods, wares, or merchandise can only be, or most usually are, first shipped for transportation. All goods, wares, or merchandise imported contrary to this section, and the vessel wherein the same shall be imported, together with her cargo, tackle, apparel, and furnitire, shall be forfeited to the United States; and such goods, wares, or merchandise, ship, or vessel, and cargo shall be liable to be seized, prosecuted, and condemned in like manner, and under the same regulations, restrictions, and provisions as have been heretofore established for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission of forfeitures to the United States by the several revenue laws. J. Subsection 3. That the preceding subsection shall not apply to vessels or goods, wares, or merchandise imported in vessels of a foreign nation which does not maintain a similar regulation against vessels of the United States. [Provisions relating to foreign-built vessels owned by citizens of the United States were repealed by the act of March 4, 1915, as to vessels which after entering American ports were, before leaving the same, registered as vessels of the United States.] 25 This provision relates to internal revenue only. 26 The Antidumping Act is printed in full in the Appendix, p. 395. 27 That part of par. S, Sec., IV, relating to the nonrepeal of parts of laws other than those pertaining to the tariff, is omitted. |