CHAPTER IV. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS CONNECTED FROM CUSTOMS. SECTION I. COLLECTORS, NAVAL OFFICERS, AND SURVEYORS. collectors of the ART. 567. At ports where a collector, naval officer, and General duties of surveyor are appointed, it is the duty of the collector to See Act March receive all manifests, reports, and documents required to be made or exhibited on the entry of any vessel or cargo; record all manifests, and, together with the naval officer, estimate the amount of duties payable on imports, endorsing the same on the respective entries; receive, or secure by bond, payment of duties; grant permits for the unlading and delivery of imports; and, with the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury, employ persons as inspectors, weighers, gaugers, measurers, and clerks- sec. 7 Act June the number, however, of each class (except clerks) not to exceed that in service within the district on the 17th June, 1844. At ports to which a collector and surveyor only are assigned, the collector shall solely discharge the duties in which the co-operation of the naval officer is required at ports where such an officer is appointed; which he shall also do in case of the disability or death of the naval officer until the appointment of a successor, unless there be a deputy duly constituted under the hand and seal of the naval officer, who in such case will act until an appointment of naval officer shall have been made. At ports where a collector only is appointed, he shall solely execute the duties assigned to the collector, naval officer, and surveyor, at ports where all such officers are established. 17, 1844. approbation of May appoint, with 568. Collectors may, with the approbation of the SecSecretary of the retary of the Treasury, employ, within their respective Treasury, depu ties. 8, 1817. Sec. 7 Act March districts, such number of persons as deputies as they shall judge necessary, who are declared by law to be officers of the customs. The deputies so appointed will take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation, before entering on the discharge of their duties, before the collector by whom they shall have been appointed, or some magistrate within their respective districts authorized by law to administer oaths: FORM No. 200. naval officers. 2, 1799. I, Oath, or affirmation, of Deputy Collector. do having been appointed deputy collector of the customs within and for the district of solemnly, sincerely and truly swear (or affirm) that I will diligently and faithfully execute the duties of the said office of deputy collector, and will use my best endeavors to prevent and detect frauds and violations against the laws of the United States; and I further swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States. The duties of collectors, their powers and authorities, under the revenue and collection laws, are so extensive and various, that it is impracticable to specify them in detail, in these Regulations. Reference must necessarily be had to the laws themselves for an accurate understanding of them in their full extent and variety. General duties of 569. It is the duty of the naval officer to receive copies of Sec. 21 Act March all manifests and entries, and, together with the collector, estimate all duties on imports, and keep a separate record thereof; countersign all permits, clearances, certificates, and other documents granted by the collector; examine the collector's abstract of duties, and other accounts of receipts, bonds, and expenditures, and, if found correct, to certify them. Surveyor. Sec. 21 Act March 2, 1799. 570. It is the duty of the surveyor to superintend and direct the inspectors, weighers, gaugers, and measurers at his port; but he is, in all cases, to be subject to the collector. officers and customs employees post, and, person duties. 571. Collectors, naval officers, surveyors and appraisers, Collectors, naval assistant appraisers, inspectors of drugs, surgeons, physi- must reside at the cians, and stewards of hospitals, and other employees really attend to the ceiving their appointments from the President or Secretary of the Treasury, are required to reside at their respective ports or places of business, and give their personal attention to the duties of their respective offices, and not to leave their posts and duties without the consent of the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom written application should first be made. Collectors, and surveyors acting as collectors, are required to designate the person to act in their absence. Collectors, and surveyors acting as collectors, are also required to cause all deputies, clerks, and other employees at the several ports, to give their personal and timely attention to the duties of their respective situations, and consider absence, without their written application and written leave, sufficient cause for dismissal, and the nomination of a successor, which they are required in all cases to carry into effect; or report the facts and excuse to the Department; but parol leave may be given for a period of not more than one day at a time. office hours. 572. The following regulation, prescribed in regard to Regulations as to office hours at the several custom-houses, will be enforced at each of the ports to which, by its terms, itis applicable: The hours for transaction of business with merchants and others shall be, at the ports of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and San Francisco, from 9 o'clock, a. m. to 3 o'clock, p. m.; and for the function aries at said ports, the office hours will be from 9 o'clock a. m. to 4 p. m., and until the business of the day shall be accomplished, according to the requirements of the collector of the port. At each of the other ports the same hours will be kept for the transaction of business with merchants and others; and for the functionaries, the same official hours as prescribed for the larger ports will be kept, if the business at the smaller ports shall so require. The foregoing regulation extends to all departments of the customs, as well to the offices of the naval officer, port to Secretary of condition of business, monthly. surveyor, and appraisers, (if any at the port,) as the collector's office proper. Collectors to re- 573. Collectors will, at the close of each month, make the Treasury a report in writing to the Secretary of the Treasury of the condition of the business under their official supervision. It is intended that these reports shall present to the Department information, as far as practicable, of the amount of business transacted in the several departments of the custom-house during the month: as, for instance, the number of vessels entered and cleared; the number of registers or other marine papers issued; the number of entries of merchandise made, whether for consumption, warehousing, withdrawal from warehouse, or rewarehousing, and the number of entries liquidated; what business, if any, remains unfinished, and for what reason. 574. All inattention or neglect of duty by subordinate officers, with the names of the officers so in fault, and the duty or service neglected or insufficiently attended to, will also be reported by collectors, and all absences from duty on leave, as follows: FORM NO. 201. Report of absences. Name. Desiguation. Date of leave. For what time. Reason. Time absent. How official com The collectors' reports, thus required, will embrace, also, reports from the naval officer, surveyor, and appraisers, of the several particulars above specified; and those officers will, at the close of each month, furnish their reports to the collector, to be forwarded with his own. 575. All official letters, reports, and communications munications are to to this Department, or to the head of any office thereof, will be folded and enclosed in a wrapper; and on the be made up and endorsed. middle fold will be endorsed the name of the person |