PART XLVII.-FEES PAYABLE BY PRIVATE PERSONS, 469. Fees on vessels payable by private persons. NOTE. By section 1 of the act of June 19, 1886, and section 22 of the act of June 10, 1850, the system of compensating officers of the Government enforcing the navigation laws was materially changed. Nearly all the fees previously collected by them from masters and owners of vessels of the United States for services rendered were abolished, and payment made directly from the Treasury on the basis of the former fees. For this reason, wherever practicable in the text of this compilation, provisions requiring the payment of fees have been omitted as no longer in force between the master or owner of a vessel of the United States and the Government, but in force only as determining the compensation, in some instances, paid by the Government to its employees. Following are the sections of law above referred to, with a schedule of the fees which still remain payable by the owner, master, or agent of a vessel of the United States at ports on the seaboard and western rivers, and also at ports on the Great Lakes and northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers.] June 19, 1886. On and after July first, eighteen hundred and eightysix, no fees shall be charged or collected by collectors or other officers of customs, or by inspectors of steam-vessels or shipping commissioners, for the following services to vessels of the United States, to wit: Measurement of tonnage and certifying the same; issuing of license or granting of certificate of registry, record, or enrollment, including all indorsements on the same and bond and oath; indorsement of change of master; certifying and receiving manifest, including master's oath and permit; granting permit to vessels licensed for the fisheries to touch and trade; granting certificate of payment of tonnage dues; recording bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation, or conveyance, or the discharge of such mortgage or hypothecation; furnishing certificate of title; furnishing the crew list, certificate of protection to seamen; bill of health; shipping or discharging of seamen, as provided by title fiftythree of the Revised Statutes [R. S., 4501-4612] and section two of this act; apprenticing boys to the merchant service; inspecting, examining, and licensing steam-vessels, including inspection certificate and copies thereof; and licensing of master, engineer, pilot, or mate of a vessel; and all provisions of laws authorizing or requiring the collection of fees for such services are repealed, such repeal to take effect July first, eighteen hundred and eightysix. Collectors or other officers of customs, inspectors of steam-vessels, and shipping commissioners who are paid wholly or partly by fees shall make a detailed report of such services, and the fees provided by law, to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, under such regulations as Feb. 14, 1903. that officer may prescribe; and the Secretary of the Treasury [or the Secretary of Commerce and Labor] Sec. 10. shall allow and pay, from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, said officers such compensation for said services as each would have received prior to the passage of this act; also such compensation to clerks of shipping commissioners as would have been paid them had this act not passed: Provided, That such services have, in the opinion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, been necessarily rendered. So much of the Act approved June nineteenth, eighteen June 25, 1910. hundred and eighty-six (Statutes at Large, volume twenty-four, page seventy-nine), as makes a permanent indefinite appropriation to pay compensation to shipping commissioners and the clerks of the shipping commissioners for services under said Act is hereby repealed, to take effect from and after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven; and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, and annually thereafter, submit to Congress in the regular Book of Estimates detailed estimates for compensation of such commissioners and clerks. Shipping Service: For salaries of shipping commission- Mar. 4, 1911. ers in amounts not exceeding the following: At Baltimore, one thousand two hundred dollars; at Bath, one thousand dollars; at Boston, three thousand dollars; at Gloucester, six hundred dollars; at Honolulu, one thousand two hundred dollars; at Mobile, one thousand two hundred dollars; at New Bedford, one thousand two hundred dollars; at New Orleans, one thousand five hundred. dollars; at New York, five thousand dollars; at Norfolk, one thousand five hundred dollars; at Pascagoula, three hundred dollars; at Philadelphia, two thousand four hundred dollars; at Portland, Maine, one thousand three hundred dollars; at Port Townsend, three thousand five hundred dollars; at Providence, one thousand eight hundred dollars; at Rockland, one thousand two hundred dollars; at San Francisco, four thousand dollars; in all, thirty-one thousand nine hundred dollars. Sec. 22. All fees exacted and oaths administered by officers of June 10, 1890, the customs, except as provided in this act, under or by virtue of existing laws of the United States, upon the entry of imported goods and the passing thereof through the customs, and also upon all entries of domestic goods, wares, and merchandise for exportation, are hereby abolished: * Provided, That where such fees, under existing laws, constitute, in whole or in part, the compensation of any officer, such officer shall receive, from and after the passage of this act, a fixed sum for each year equal to the amount which he would have been entitled to receive as fees for such services during said year. * PORTS ON ATLANTIC, PACIFIC, and Gulf COASTS AND WESTERN RIVERS. For inspector's certificate to cancel bond, etc.--- $0.20 Granting permit to a vessel not belonging to a citizen of the United States to go from district to district, and for receiving manifest_--Receiving manifest, and granting permit to unload, for last-mentioned vessel on arrival at one district from another__ 2.00 2.00 Entry of vessel of 100 tons or more from foreign port_ Entry of vessel under 100 tons.- Clearance of vessel of 100 tons or more for a foreign port--. Clearance of vessel under 100 tons___ 2.50 1.50 2.50 1.50 Post-entry-‒‒‒ 2.00 Bond taken officially, not otherwise provided for, except when executed in connection with the entry or passage of goods through the customs, or with the entry of merchandise for exportation---. .40 Official certificate, except as above stated.. 20 Collector's certificate to shipping articles_. .20 Special certificate to cancel bond not given in connection with entry of merchandise, etc., under act 1890_. .20 Certified copy of outward manifest, if required (fee abolished). .20 Duties performed by surveyor on vessel of less than 100 tons, if there be dutiable cargo.---. Certified copy of bill of sale, mortgage, or other conveyance.. Official documents (United States vessels' documents excepted) required For like services in vessels under 100 tons having similar merchandise_-__ .20 3.00 1.50 .67 .50 3.00 Tonnage duty, if due Certificate payment tonnage dues, foreign vessel.. Duties performed by surveyor on vessel of whatever tonnage with free cargo or ballast___ 1.50 .67 Bill of health, foreign vessel.. Bond to retain cargo on board, if required_. Certificate of American growth or production, if required_. .20 .20 .40 .20 Clearance of an American vessel for a foreign port: Fee same as above (but no fee collectible for bill of health, certificate payment tonnage tax, crew list, or bond). Certificate to shipping articles, if required___. .20 The fees allowed to surveyors for services other than admeasurement on board vessels may be charged by the collectors performing such services at ports where there are no surveyors, but such fees will not be collected from coasting vessels. Fees for the admeasurement of vessels under 5 tons in burden will not be charged. Collectors may receive port warden's, health officer's, and harbormaster's fees where it is a matter of convenience to all parties concerned. The term "legal fees," used in section 4206, Revised Statutes, does not mean pilotage, half pilotage, or similar local charges. Masters of passenger vessels from foreign territory not contiguous to the United States are required to pay, within twenty-four hours from entry, to the collector of customs at the port of arrival, $10 for each passenger over 8 years of age (not being a cabin passenger) who shall have died of natural disease during the voyage. Collectors, naval officers, and surveyors are required to have posted in a public place in their offices a 'fair table of the fees demandable by law at their ports, subject at all times to inspection, and to give receipts for fees collected, specifying the particulars, whenever required to do so. Failure to observe these requirements entails a penalty of $100 for the benefit of the informer. PORTS ON NORTHERN, NORTHEASTERN, AND NORTHWESTERN FRONTIERS. Post entry $2.00 Official bond not otherwise provided for, except when executed in connec- Certified copy of outward manifest, if required___ Copy bill of sale, mortgage, or other conveyance__ Clearance Bond to retain cargo, if necessary- Clearance .50 .20 .20 20 .20 .50 .50 .50 Clearance of an American vessel directly for a foreign port: .50 Bond to retain cargo, if necessary--. .50 Entry of an American vessel engaged in the coasting trade and touching at a foreign port: 2.00 Post entry, if made---- The fees allowed to surveyors for services other than admeasurement on board vessels may be charged by the collectors performing such services at ports where there are no surveyors, but such fees will not be collected from coasting vessels. Fees for the admeasurement of vessels under 5 tons in burden will not be charged. Collectors may receive port warden's, health officer's, and harbor master's fees where it is a matter of convenience to all parties concerned. The term "legal fees," used in section 4206, Revised Statutes, does not embrace pilotage, half-pilotage, or similar local charges. Masters of passenger vessels from foreign territory not contiguous to the United States are required to pay, within twenty-four hours from entry, to the collector of customs at the port of arrival, $10 for each passenger over 8 years of age (not being a cabin passenger), who shall have died of natural disease during the voyage. Permits are not required on the northern frontier to unlade cargo brought from an American port; but permits must be obtained, and existing laws complied with, previous to the discharge or landing of passengers, baggage, goods, wares, or merchandise brought from foreign ports or places. Canadian steamers trading on the northern frontiers from one foreign port to another, and touching during the course of such voyage at a port or place in the United States, and landing passengers, baggage, or freight are required to report. Enrolled or licensed vessels upon the frontiers departing from or arriving at a port in one collection district to or from a port in another collection district, although touching at an intermediate foreign port, are exempted from payment of the entrance and clearance fees of fifty cents each, and from the payment of tonnage tax, but in all such cases an entry or clearance must be made, and fees be paid of ten cents for certification of manifest and permit to go from district to district, and ten cents for receiving manifest. Vessels used exclusively as ferry-boats, however laden, will not be required to enter or clear, nor will the masters or persons in charge of such boats be required to present manifests or to pay entrance or clearance fees, or fees for receiving or certifying manifests; but such masters or other persons will be required to report to the proper officer of the customs in each instance, and to apprise him of any baggage, goods, wares, or merchandise which may have been imported in such boats from any foreign territory. Collectors on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers are authorized to keep on sale, at their several offices, blank manifests and clearances, and to charge therefor the sum of 10 cents for each blank, and no more. But this does not prohibit private persons from furnishing their own blanks, if said blanks are in accordance with law and regulations. Collectors, naval officers, and surveyors are required to have posted in a public place in their offices a fair table of the fees demandable by law at their ports, subject at all times to inspection, and to give receipts for fees collected, specifying the particulars, whenever required to do so. Failure to observe these requirements entails a penalty of $100 for the benefit of the informer. |