Chapter 394. To amend section forty of “An Act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes,” approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, so as to authorize the sale of forfeited domestic smoking opium to the highest bidder
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CHAP. 394.— An Act To amend section forty of “An Act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes,” approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, so as to authorize the sale of forfeited domestic smoking opium to the highest bidder. March 3, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section forty of an ActOpium.Sale of forfeited domestic, prepared. entitled “An Act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes,” approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended by adding at the end of said section the words “and may be sold to the highest bidder, pursuant to the provisions of section thirty-four hundred and sixty, Revised Statutes, if not valuedVol. 26, p. 621.R.
S. sec. 3460, p. 685. as therein provided at over five hundred dollars; but if valued at more than five hundred dollars the sale shall be made pursuant to the judgment of the court in the proceedings for condemnation or forfeiture.” Approved, March 3, 1897.