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R. S., 3070.

R. S., 2830.

R. S., 3035.

direct; and where two inspectors are assigned to the same district, one or the other of them must be constantly on duty during the prescribed hours. They have general supervision of all vessels coming into their districts, and will report all discovered violations of the revenue or navigation laws and regulations to the surveyor. They are to make examinations as often as necessary of vessels coming into their districts, and to ascertain whether American vessels are properly documented and have duly complied with the laws relating to navigation. They will secure and seal the hatches and openings of all vessels from foreign ports coming into their districts and retain the custody of the same until relieved by discharging officers.

If no assignment of an inspector be made specially to such vessels, the district inspector will take charge of the unlading thereof without further notice.

They will indorse upon the certified manifests of vessels proceeding to another district, before completely discharging, a statement of the portions of the cargo already discharged, and transmit the same to the surveyor for delivery to the district inspectors under whose supervision the remainder of the cargo is to be discharged. The inspector in charge of the final delivery will make the final returns of discharge. They will report daily to the surveyor the vessels which arrived in their districts during the previous day, distinguishing between those not discharged, those partly discharged in other districts, and those wholly discharged.

They will each keep a permanent record book in which to enter, with necessary particulars, all entries, orders, and permits received by them, and another book to enter an account of all coasting vessels examined; both books to be in the prescribed form.

ART. 1615. On receiving due notice, they are to inspect and superintend the shipment of merchandise exported for the benefit of drawback or return of duty. They are required to examine the merchandise to see if it agrees in all particulars with the export entries, to take samples when needed, and will guard against any change of packages, or the abstraction of any part of the contents thereof, while the same are in their custody. They are also to supervise the shipment of goods for exportation or transportation in bond in their respective districts.

ART. 1616. When the lading of the merchandise on board the vessel, or other conveyance is completed, the

district officer under whose supervision the lading is done will indorse upon the original entry, and upon the copies thereof, the proper certificate of the shipment. When merchandise for export or transportation has been ordered to be weighed or gauged, the name of the weigher or gauger by whom the same was done will be given underneath the certificates. If a manifest is required to be delivered to the master of the vessel, or to the conductor of a railroad car, such manifest must be certified by the district inspector and delivered as directed.

ART. 1617. Whenever any portion of the merchandise described in an export or transportation entry is not shipped in accordance with the orders and direction upon the entry, the district inspector, in making his certificate of shipment, will state that the merchandise was shipped "in part," and the number of packages or quantity of merchandise not shipped must be specified underneath the certificates, and the reason, if known, why the merchandise was not shipped, and what disposition was made thereof, must also be stated.

ART. 1618. Such unshipped merchandise must be sent to the nearest general-order store, with a ticket or receipt describing the merchandise, and stating upon it that the merchandise is "for export-or-transportation, as the case may be but not shipped," which ticket or receipt will be signed by the storekeeper. Lumber "short shipped" must be returned to the bonded yard from whence it

came.

ART. 1619. Whenever a customs officer ordered to supervise the lading of merchandise for export with benefit of drawback is unable, after due diligence, to see the same actually placed on board the exporting vessel or conveyance, but shall find and identify such merchandise in the acknowledged custody of an exporting vessel or line, under a bill of lading or contract for exportation, such finding and identification shall be held to be substantially a compliance with the order to supervise the lading thereof, and certification may be made accordingly. In no case shall an officer certify to such lading unless he shall have personally seen in the custody of the exporting line the merchandise, and shall have inspected the authentic record of receipt, or the export bill of lading covering the same.

Whenever a customs officer who has been ordered to inspect and sample any merchandise, under the special instructions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating to

T. D. 11462.

R. S., 2637.

R. S., 307, 3068, 3069, 3070, 30671.

drawbacks, finds it impracticable to inspect and sample the same, he shall, in each case, report to the collector the facts in regard to such failure, and no drawback will be allowed in such cases, except upon the special order of the Department.

ART. 1620. When the export or transportation entries are returned to the surveyor's office, the ticket or receipt for goods not shipped and sent to the general-order store will be attached to the original entry.

Severe penalties are imposed by law upon officers who certify shipments of goods without due inspection and supervision of the shipments.

Boarding inspectors.

ART. 1621. It is the duty of boarding inspectors to board vessels arriving from foreign ports, and, after ascertaining the name of vessel and master, and port of departure, in each case, to examine the documents relating to the vessel and crew, and certify the manifest of cargo, verifying the same by actual examination, and to seal or otherwise secure the hatches and openings till the necessary permits for unlading can be granted and a discharging officer assigned to the vessel. If the vessel be American, the crew must be mustered and compared with the crew list. If destitute American seamen be returned, they must be identified with the certificate of the consul. Proper certificates to the manifests, crew lists, and statements of consuls relative to the return of seamen will be made, and all such papers sent to the custom-house.

Coast inspectors.

ART. 1622. Coast inspectors are appointed to protect the interests of the revenue with respect to all goods, wares, and merchandise which may be landed, or in any way come to the land, from a vessel from a foreign port, wrecked or stranded upon the coast.

On learning that a vessel has been wrecked or stranded, the coast inspector or other customs officer nearest the place where the casualty has occurred will at once proceed to or as near the location of the stranded or wrecked vessel as is possible, and, as soon as he ascertains the situation of the vessel, make report, in writing, to the surveyor of all the facts and circumstances in relation thereto. In case the vessel is likely to break up, or if the condition of the vessel is such that its cargo can be landed or discharged therefrom, he shall remain at or near the wreck,

and take possession and keep charge of all goods and merchandise which may come or be brought to land.

ART. 1623. In case the cargo of a vessel wrecked or stranded is delivered into lighters or other vessels for conveyance into port, the coast inspector will keep an account thereof, and, before any lighter or vessel having on board any of the cargo is allowed to depart, will make out two lighter manifests, in the form prescribed, to be signed by the master and stating, as particularly as possible, what cargo has been taken on board thereof. One copy of such lighter bill shall be retained by the master, and be by him delivered at the custom-house on the arrival of the lighter or vessel in port; the other copy will be transmitted by the coast inspector to the surveyor. Whenever necessary the surveyor will send an inspector of the customs to any wrecked or stranded vessel.

1880, 21 Stat. 263.

ART. 1624. Masters of light-house tenders are investedAct June 16, by law with police powers of search, seizure, and arrest for smuggling and other crimes pertaining to Government property.

Keepers of life-saving stations as coast inspectors.

ART. 1625. Keepers of life-saving and lifeboat stations. and houses of refuge have the powers of inspectors of customs, and are authorized and required to take charge of and protect all property saved from any shipwreck, at which they may be present, until it is claimed by parties legally authorized to receive it, or until otherwise instructed to dispose of it by the Secretary of the Treasury. The powers of said keepers as inspectors of customs are to be exercised with reference to merchandise, presumable of foreign origin, cast ashore from wrecks or forming the cargo of vessels stranded or driven ashore by stress of weather. Such keepers will promptly notify the collector of customs of the district of any such casualty, and exercise supervision over the cargo until a regular customs officer arrives to take the necessary action toward forwarding it to its destination, or to the nearest port of entry, as may be determined upon by the owners or underwriters.

ART. 1626. In all cases of stranded vessels, keepers will exercise a watchful care over such portions of the cargo as may be landed or come on shore, in order to preserve the same, as far as possible, for the owners thereof, as also to protect the revenue; and, with this view, dutiable goods

Act June 18, 1878, sec. 4.

and valuable merchandise, other than combustibles or explosives, may for security be stored within the stations, but the boat rooms must not be encumbered with articles which might affect the instant availability of the apparatus.

ART. 1627. It is also the duty of said keepers, as inspectors, to take such measures as may be within their power to prevent smuggling; and patrolmen while performing their duty, by night or day, will keep a strict watch to detect any efforts at smuggling.

It is also their duty, upon the detection of any violation of the customs-revenue laws, to forthwith make complaint thereof to the collector of the district, and to seize goods, wares, and merchandise in the act of being smuggled, or which have been smuggled. For the detection and seizure of such smuggled goods, they will be entitled to such compensation as the Secretary of the Treasury shall award, not exceeding in amount one-half of the net proceeds, after deduction of duties and expenses.

Frontier inspectors.

ART. 1628. Inspectors on the frontier will exercise diligence to prevent smuggling in or by boats, carriages, or by persons arriving from adjacent foreign territory; they will not permit boats or vehicles to avoid the required report and inspection at the nearest customs stations within the United States. Inspectors placed on duty at railway stations or on railway trains within foreign territory will be careful to so conduct themselves in the discharge of their duties as to give no reasonable grounds of complaint to the foreign authorities by whose consent they are acting.

Night inspectors.

ART. 1629. Night inspectors are appointed for the purpose of preventing smuggling. They are required to keep a vigilant watch over the vessels, stores, or merchandise whose custody is committed to them, in order to prevent the landing, between sunset and sunrise, of any merchandise from any vessel, unless the same is done by proper authority and under the supervision of a day inspector, and to protect the bonded stores and merchandise from robbery or the unlawful removal of merchandise therefrom, or from any wharf or place on which the same may be deposited.

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