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title: "19 U.S.C. § 81d"
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title_number: 19
title_name: "CUSTOMS DUTIES"
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# 19 U.S.C. § 81d - Customs officers and guards

## Text

The Secretary of the Treasury shall assign to the zone the necessary customs officers and guards to protect the revenue and to provide for the admission of foreign merchandise into customs territory.

(June 18, 1934, ch. 590, § 4, 48 Stat. 1000.)

## Notes

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions Functions of all officers of Department of the Treasury and functions of all agencies and employees of such Department transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Treasury, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his functions, by any of such officers, agencies, and employees, by Reorg. Plan No. 26 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. July 31, 1950, 15 F.R. 4935, 64 Stat. 1280, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.