Chapter CXI. *further to Provide for the Verification of Invoices.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all consular officers of the THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS
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Chap. CXI.— An Act *further to Provide for the Verification of Invoices.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all consular officers of the THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 112, 113, 114. 1865. 533United States be, and they are hereby, authorized to require before certifying Consular officers before certifying invoices, may require satisfactory proof of their correctness. 1863, ch. 76.
Vol. xii. p. 737.any invoice or invoices under the provisions of the first section of the act entitled “An act to prevent and punish frauds upon the revenue, to provide for the more certain and speedy collection of claims in favor of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, satisfactory evidence, either by the oath of the person or persons presenting such invoices or otherwise, that such invoices are correct and true: *Provided,* That in the exercise of the dis cretion hereby given, the said consular officers shall be governed by such general or special regulations or instructions as may from time to time be established or given by the Secretary of State.
Approved, March 3, 1865.