Quarterly. 78. Abstract of moneys received on account of deceased passengers. $3. TO THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. Monthly. 270. Abstract of consuls' certificates to certified invoices. 271. Report that no consuls' certificates to certified invoices were presented. 272. List of landing certificates received. 4. TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE MINT. Monthly. 315. Statement of imports of gold and silver. Monthly. 323. Statement of tonnage tax collected. 333. Statement of no transactions. 340. Abstract of documents (issued in other districts) surrendered; accompanied by surrendered documents. Quarterly. 200. Summary statement of examination of vessels having on board passengers other than cabin. 325. Statement of vessels built, lost at sea, abandoned, sold to foreigners, etc. 326. Statement of vessels readmeasured. 332. Statement of no transactions. 334. Letter of transmittal to accompany abstracts. 336. Abstract of registers issued and surrendered. 337. Abstract of enrollments issued and surrendered; accompanied by the surrendered enrollments and copies of those issued. 338, 339, 339. Abstracts of licenses of vessels issued and surrendered; accompanied by the surrendered licenses. 341. Abstract of indorsements of change of master. Whenever necessary. 1786. Statement for refund of erroneous or excessive exactions. 201. Report of examination of immigrant vessels. 324. Application for yacht commission. 505. Application for official number and signal letters for vessel. 897. Certificate that number, tonnage, etc., have been marked on vessel. § 6. TO THE BUREAU OF STATISTICS. Monthly. 273 to 2864, inclusive. Statements of entries, imports, exports, ware house transaction, etc. 288, 290. Statements of entrances and clearances. Quarterly. 292. Statement of imports entered for consumption. 294. Statement of products of fisheries, etc. 295. Statement of guano brought from bonded islands. 296. Statement of products of forests, etc. 301, 302. Statements of passengers arrived and departed. Whenever necessary. 311. Report of no transactions. § 7. TO THE SUPERVISING INSPECTOR-GENERAL of Steam VESSELS. Monthly. 68. Account current of moneys received for payment of marshals and witnesses' fees. Quarterly. 240. Statement of inspection certificates received and issued. § 8. TO THE SUPERVISING SURGEON-GENERAL MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE. 36. Abstract of moneys received for care and treatment of foreign seamen. 1920. Medical report of out-patients. 1921. Medical report of hospital patients. 1923. Bill for care of seamen. 1937. Bill. Annually. 1927. Proposal for the care of seamen. Whenever necessary. 248. Receipt for unclaimed moneys, etc. 1915. Relief certificate. 1916. Permit for hospital relief. 1918. Application for extension of permit. $9. TO THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT LIFE-SAVING SERVICE, 221. Wreck report. Whenever necessary. § 10. TO THE COMMISSIONER-GENERAL OF IMMIGRATION. Monthly. 18. Account current of collections of head money from alien pas sengers. 19. Abstract of collections of head money from alien passengers. R. S., sec. 336. Sec. 19, act June 10, 1890. CHAPTER XXIX. RETURNS TO BUREAU OF STATISTICS. ART. 1877. The following requirements of law and regulations will be observed by collectors and other officers of the customs in the preparation of the statistical returns rendered to the Bureau of Statistics of this Department: §1. LAW AS TO STATISTICAL VALUES AND QUANTITIES. First. The kinds and quantities of all imported articles, free from duty, shall be ascertained by entry, made upon oath or affirmation by the owner, or by the consignee or agent of the importer, or by actual examination where the collector shall think such examination necessary; and the values of all such articles shall be ascertained in the same manner in which the values of imports subject to duties ad valorem are ascertained. Second. The values of all imported articles subject to specific duties shall be ascertained in the manner in which the values of imports subject to duties ad valorem are ascertained. Third. All articles exported shall be valued at their actual cost or the values which they may truly bear at the time of exportation in the ports of the United States. from which they are exported. ART. 1878. The values of imported merchandise subject to ad valorem rates of duty, and duty imposed upon and regulated in any manner by the value thereof, shall be "the actual market value or wholesale price of such merchandise as bought and sold in usual wholesale quantities, at the time of exportation to the United States, in the principal markets of the country whence imported, and in the condition in which such merchandise is there bought and sold for exportation to the United States, or consigned to the United States for sale, including the value of all cartons, cases, crates, boxes, sacks, and coverings of any kind, and all other costs, charges, and expenses incident to placing the merchandise in condition, packed ready for shipment to the United States." ART. 1879. In determining, for statistical returns, the values of imported commodities, care should be taken to add to the foreign market value of free merchandise and merchandise subject to specific rates of duty, the values of the coverings and other costs, charges, and expenses required by existing law to be added to the foreign-market value of merchandise subject to ad valorem duty to make its dutiable value. ART. 1880. The accounts of the commerce of the United R.S.,336. States with foreign countries shall comprehend and include, in tabular form, the quantity, by weight or measure, as well as the amount of value, of the various articles of foreign commerce, whether dutiable or otherwise. $2. LAW AS TO EXPORTS IN VESSELS. ART. 1881. Before a clearance shall be granted for any R.S., 337. vessel bound to a foreign place, the collector shall require the owners, shippers, or consignors of the cargo to deliver to the collector manifests of the cargo or of the parts thereof shipped by them respectively, which manifests shall specify the kinds and quantities of the articles shipped by them respectively, and the value of the total quantity of each kind of articles, and state that such manifest contains a full, just, and true account of all articles laden on board of such vessel by the owners, shippers, or consignors, respectively, and that the values of such articles are truly stated according to their actual cost or the values which they truly bear at the port and time of exportation. And the collector shall also require the master of the vessel and the owners, shippers, and consignors of the cargo to state, in writing, to the collector the foreign place or country in which such cargo is truly intended to be landed. The manifests and statements hereby required shall be verified by the oath of the person by whom they are respectively made and subscribed. ART. 1882. The master or person having the charge or command of any vessel bound to a foreign port shall deliver to the collector of the district from which such vessel is about to depart a manifest of all the cargo on board the same and the value thereof by him subscribed, and shall swear to the truth thereof; whereupon the collector shall grant a clearance for such vessel and her cargo, but without specifying the particulars thereof in the clearance, unless required by the master or other person having the charge or command of such vessel so to do. If any vessel bound to a foreign port departs on her voyage to such foreign port without delivering such manifest and obtaining a clearance as hereby required, the master or other R. S., 4197. Act March 3, 1895, sec. 1. person having the charge or command of such vessel shall be liable to a penalty of $500 for every such offense. $3. LAW AS TO EXPORTS BY LAND VEHICLES AND FERRYBOATS. ART. 1883. That hereafter collectors of customs shall render to the Bureau of Statistics, in such manner and form and at such periods as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, returns of exports to foreign countries leaving the United States by rail. Any person who shall hereafter deliver to any railway or transportation company or other common carrier commodities for transportation and exportation by rail from the United States to foreign countries, shall also deliver to the collector of customs at the frontier port through which the goods pass into the foreign country a manifest, in such form as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, duly certified as to its accuracy by said person or his agent, exhibiting the kinds, quantities, and values of the several articles delivered by such person or his agent for exportation. And no railway car containing commodities, the product or manufacture of the United States or foreign goods, duty paid or free of duty, intended to be exported to any foreign country, shall be permitted hereafter to leave the United States until the agent of the railway or transportation company, or the person having such car in charge, shall deliver to the customs officer at the last port in the United States through which the commodities pass into foreign territory a manifest thereof, which shall specify the kinds and quantities of the commodities in the form prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and until the manifest, exhibiting the kinds, quantities, and values of the several commodities shall have been delivered to the collector of customs, as above required, by the person exporting such commodities, or by his agent, or information satisfactory to such customs officer as to the kind, quantities, and values of the domestic and foreign free or duty-paid commodities laden on such car. The agent or employee of any railway or transportation company who shall transport such commodities into a foreign country before the delivery to the collector of customs of the manifest (s), as above required, shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars ($50) for each offense: Provided, That the provisions of this law shall apply to commodities transported to the frontier in railway cars for exportation and transshipment across the frontier into the adjacent foreign territory in ferryboats or vehicles, so |