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FEDERAL
VOLUME 3

REGISTER
1934

NUMBER 60

Washington, Saturday, March 26, 1938
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

T .D . 49469
C u s t o m s R e g u l a t io n s A m e n d e d I l l u s t r a t io n s o f P o stage S tam ps
Bureau of Customs.
T . D. 49467

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C u s t o m s R e g u l a t i o n s A m e n d e d R e le a s e o f S e iz e d P r o p e r t y U p o n P a y m e n t o f A p p r a is e d D o m e s t ic V a l u e GENERAL PRIOR APPROVAL TO ACCEPTANCE OF OFFERS TO PAY AP
PRAISED DOMESTIC VALUE OF SEIZED PROPERTY AND TO THE
RELEASE OF SUCH PROPERTY IN CERTAIN CASES

To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned:
Pursuant to the authority contained in sections 614 and 624, Tariff Act of 1930, U. S. C., title 19, secs. 1614 and 1624, respectively and section 251, Revised Statutes, U. S. C., title 19, sec. 66, article 1138, Customs Regulations of 1937,1
is hereby amended as follows:
A new paragraph, designated b , reading as .follows, is added:
5 When the appraised domestic value of property seized under the customs laws does not exceed $5,000, and the col lector is satisfied that the claimant making a written offer to pay such value has, in fact, a substantial interest therein, approval is hereby granted and the collector is hereby au thorized to accept such offer and to release such property, provided that its importation is not prohibited by law and that the claimant or his attorney executes an assent to for feiture and a waiver of further proceedings on customs Form 4607. In any case where the collector is not satisfied that the proponent has a substantial interest in the seized prop erty or for any other reason he believes that it would not be in the interest of the United States to accept the offer, the procedure outlined in paragraph c of ttys article will be followed.
The present paragraph b is redesignated c and is amended by deleting the first two words The application and by inserting in lieu thereof the phrase Applications not covered by the preceding paragraph.
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Jam es H . M o y l e ,
Commissioner of Customs.
Approved: March 18, 1938.
S t e p h e n B . G ib b o n s ,
Acting Secretary of the Treasury.
F. R. Doc. 38-863; Filed, March 25,1938; 9:41 a. m .
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To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned:
Pursuant to section 2 o f the act of Congress approved Jan uary 27, 1938 Public No. 421, 75th Congress, authorizing the printing of black-and-white illustrations of United States and foreign postage stamps for philatelic purposes, and the authority contained in section 161 of the Revised Statutes U. S. C., title 5, sec. 22 and section 624 of the Tariff Act of 1930 U. S. C., title 19, sec. 1624, article 691 of the Customs Regulations of 19371 is hereby amended as indi cated below.
Paragraph g is amended to read as follows:
g United States Code, title 18, sec. 350, as amended by section 2 of the act approved January 27, 1938:
That a nothing in sections 161, 172, and 220 of the Crim inal Code, as amended, or in any other provision of law, shall be construed to forbid or prevent the printing, publishing, or importation, or the making or importation of the neces sary plates for such printing or publishing, for philatelic purposes in articles, books, journals, newspapers, or albums including the circulars -or advertising literature of legiti mate dealers in stamps or publishers of or dealers in phila telic or historical articles, books, journals, or albums, of black and white illustrations of 1 foreign revenue stamps if from plates so defaced as to indicate that the illustrations are not adapted or intended for use as stamps;
2 foreign postage stamps; or 3 such portion of the border of a stamp of the United States as may be necessary to show minor distinctive fea tures of the stamp so illustrated, but all such illustrations shall be at least four times as large as the portion of the original United States stamp so illustrated.
b Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secre tary of the Treasury, subject to the approval of the Presi dent, may, upon finding that no hindrance to the suppression of counterfeiting and no tendency to bring into disrepute any obligation or other security of the United States will result, by regulations, permit, to the extent and under such conditions as he may deem appropriate, the printing, pub lishing or importation or the making or importation of the necessary plates for such printing, or publishing, for phila12 F. R. 1884 D I .

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