50 U.S.C. § 216 : US Code - Section 216: Preventing transportation of goods to aid insurrection

Search 50 U.S.C. § 216 : US Code - Section 216: Preventing transportation of goods to aid insurrection

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to prohibit and
prevent the transportation in any vessel, or upon any railroad,
turnpike, or other road or means of transportation within the
United States, of any property, whatever may be the ostensible
destination of the same, in all cases where there are satisfactory
reasons to believe that such property is intended for any place in
the possession or under the control of insurgents against the
United States, or that there is imminent danger that such property
will fall into the possession or under the control of such
insurgents; and he is further authorized, in all cases where he
deems it expedient so to do, to require reasonable security to be
given that property shall not be transported to any place under
insurrectionary control, and shall not, in any way, be used to give
aid or comfort to such insurgents; and he may establish all such
general or special regulations as may be necessary or proper to
carry into effect the purposes of this section; and if any property
is transported in violation of this chapter, or of any regulation
of the Secretary of the Treasury, established in pursuance thereof,
or if any attempt shall be made so to transport any, it shall be
forfeited.