Chapter 218. to amend an act entitled an “Act to amend the Statutes in relation to the immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes”, approved June tenth eighteen hundred and eighty
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CHAP. 218.— An Act to amend an act entitled an “Act to amend the Statutes in relation to the immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes”, approved June tenth eighteen hundred and eighty.Feb. 23, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Immediate transportation act amended.Vol. 21, p. 173Merchandise liable to specific duties may be shipped without appraisement from port of entry upon application.
That the provisions of the act entitled “An act to amend the statutes in relation to the immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and tor other purposes,” approved June tenth eighteen hundred and eighty, be, and the same are hereby, so amended as to allow merchandise liable to specific rates of duty only to be entered for immediate transportation without appraisement to any of the ports mentioned in the seventh section of said act, although the same may not appear by the invoice, bill of lading, or manifest of the importing vessel to be consigned to or destined for either of said ports, when the consignee at the port of first arrival shall make written application therefor to the collector, giving the name of the person at the port or destination to whom he desires the merchandise to be consigned; and whenever such application and entry shall be made, the original invoice presented by the consignee at the port of first arrival shall be forwarded, with a copy of the transportation entry, to the colector at the port of destination; and a copy of such invoice shall be retained on file at the port of first arrival.
The original invoice so forwarded shall be treated as the only invoice of the merchandise upon which entry shall be made at the port of destination, and the person making such entry shall be held responsible for the statements contained therein in the same manner as if the merchandise had been originally consigned *Provisos*.Ad valorem duties.to him: *Provided, however*, That the privileges herein conferred shall not extend to any merchandise the duties upon which, or any portion thereof, depend upon the value of such merchandise:Application to be prior to landing. *And provided further*, That such privilege shall be granted only in cases where no part of the merchandise shall have been landed prior to entry for immediate transportation as aforesaid.
Approved, February 23, 1887.