---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 40"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "40"
heading: "Repealed. Aug. 2, 1956, ch. 887, § 4(a)(15), 70 Stat. 947"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/40"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Collection Districts, Ports, and Officers"
---

# [§40. Repealed. Aug. 2, 1956, ch. 887, § 4(a)(15), 70 Stat. 947 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, R.S. § 2627; act June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 523, 46 Stat. 740, related to duties of surveyor of customs. Section 5a of this title abolished the offices of surveyor of customs at all ports except New York.