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Any person other than an official or employee of the United States or of Puerto Rico, who furnishes information to an official of the Federal Customhouse Service established in Puerto Rico, or to the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico, or to the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, in connection with the illegal importation of coffee into Puerto Rico, in violation of the provisions of this chapter, which information results in the capture of the illegally imported coffee, or puts the Federal Customhouse Service established in Puerto Rico in a position to recover the corresponding tax and to impose the regulation fines for such violation, shall be entitled to demand from the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico, chargeable to the appropriation made in § 2203 of this title, a reward equal to fifty percent (50%) of the net amount obtained for the coffee seized by reason of the information furnished, when the said product is sold at public auction by the Federal Customhouse Service.\nHistory —May 5, 1931, No. 77, p. 474, added as § 1a on Apr. 9, 1934, No. 7, p. 206, § 2.