Chapter 487. To amend section three thousand and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States
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CHAP. 487.— An Act To amend section three thousand and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States. May 21, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section three thousand Transportation in bond through the United States of merchandise for foreign countries. [R. S., sec. 3005, p. 579, amended](/us/rs/s3005/p579). and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 3005. All merchandise arriving at any port of the United States destined for any foreign country may be entered at the custom-house, and conveyed, in transit, through the territory of the United States, without the payment of duties, under such regulations as to examination and transportation as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.” " Sec. 2. That the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution in Mexican Free Zone. Repeal. reference to the Free Zone along the northern frontier of Mexico and adjacent to the United States,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the Vol. 28, p. 973. full operation of section three thousand and five of the Revised Statutes as existing prior to the adoption of such joint resolution is hereby revived.
Approved, May 21, 1900.