Chapter 221. to amend section three thousand and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes
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CHAP. 221.— An Act to amend section three thousand and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes.Feb. 23, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Ownership of imported merchandise.[R. S., sec. 3058, p. 588, amended](/us/rs/t/s3058/p588).Consignee deemed the owner.Holder of bill of lading deemed consignee. That section three thousand and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes be amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 3058.
All merchandise imported into the United States shall, for the purpose of this title, be deemed and held to be the property of the person to whom the merchandise may be consigned; but the holder of any bill of lading consigned to order and properly indorsed shall be 416 deemed the consignee thereof; and in case of the abandonment of any merchandise to the underwriters, the latter may be recognized as the Merchandise saved from wrecks.consignee; and under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, merchandise saved from a vessel wrecked or abandoned at sea, or on or along the coasts of the United States, and promptly brought into a port of the United States by or in possession of the salvors of the same, can, for the purpose of its title, be regarded as the property of such salvors, and the valuation thereof and payment of duties thereon can be made accordingly and with due reference to the condition of the said merchandise as thus saved and the necessities of *Provisos*.the case: *Provided, however*, That such bringing in by salvors shall be in good faith and without intent to evade the just payment of duty:Bight of property not prejudiced, *And provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall he so construed as to prejudice in any other respect the rights of property, or of or through abandonment or allowance of the owner, or any other person interested in said merchandise ”.
" Approved, February 23, 1887.