ART. 43. Discharging inspectors are empowered to require cartmen or lightermen engaged in the transportation of dutiable goods from vessels to warehouses or public stores to produce their license or authority to carry such goods, and shall report to the surveyor any disobedience of customs orders or regulations.

ART. 44. Discharging inspectors shall send, with each load of goods ordered to warehouse or public store, an unsigned receipt, describing the marks, numbers, and supposed contents of the packages, and require the same to be returned with the signature of the officer in charge of the warehouse or store thereupon before again employing the drayman or lighterman to whom the receipt was entrusted. Should any alteration of quantity appear on the receipt when returned, inspectors shall go personally and verify its correctness.

ART. 45. They shall not allow ballast, cargo, or coal to be taken on board their vessels while discharging, except on a lading permit; and where such permits are granted, inspectors shall report whenever the execution of the same is attended with danger to the revenue.

ART. 46. They shall not unlade or deliver goods direct from a foreign port before the hour of sunrise or after the hour of sunset, except upon a special permit issued to the vessel whose discharge by night is desired.

ART. 47. Whenever the discharge of a vessel under the revenue laws extends beyond the hour of sunset, the additional pay of the discharging officers is to be borne by the persons accommodated by the extension of the hours of discharge as fixed by the collector of customs for Cuba.

ART. 48. Discharging inspectors shall not leave their vessels for any cause without the consent of the surveyor, nor go below deck, nor leave at night without closing the hatches and locking or sealing them, so as to prevent the landing of cargo during their absence, nor until relieved by the night inspectors, when they shall call the attention of the latter to goods remaining on the wharves. When two or more inspectors are assigned to a vessel, they shall remain on board as long as their services are required, and shall not leave the vessel for any purpose, nor go below deck for meals, unless one of their number be left in charge.

ART. 49. They shall cancel and remove all customs seals before delivering goods not destined for further transportation under security of such seals, and shall report all cases in which customs seals appear to have been improperly manipulated.

ART. 50. It is incumbent upon discharging inspectors to check out the cargo-identifying it by marks and numbers-and to enter in a book, to be known as a discharging book, a record of all permits or orders for the delivery of goods, showing the names of the persons in whose behalf the permits or orders are granted; the entry or bond number as indicated by the permit; the particulars specified in the

permits or orders; the marks, numbers, and descriptions of the packages ordered to be and actually unladen; to what public stores, warehouses, or other places the respective lots of goods have been sent. The discharge book of each cargo is to be duly signed and delivered to the surveyor, as required in the following paragraph.

ART. 51. As soon as practicable they shall submit to the surveyor their discharging book, accompanied by the permits and orders of discharge, and all other vouchers relating to the disposition of the cargo and a return thereof. They shall first enter therein the baggage permit, if there is one, and shall enter separately: First, all free permits; second, all consumption permits; third, all warehouse permits; fourth, all permits for the delivery of "I. T." goods to the surveyor; fifth, all permits for delivery to the surveyor of merchandise for transport or export, designating in the corresponding column such packages as were landed, sent to the warehouse, or delivered to the surveyor.

On the return of merchandise disposed of on consumption permits the entry number must in each instance be stated, and for merchandise delivered in bond, whether for warehouse, exportation, or transportation, the bond number must be stated on the return. In the marginal column must be noted all packages "not agreeing with permit" or "not found on board," and opposite to the entry of each warehouse permit the designated warehouse to which the merchandise was sent; or, if delivered to surveyor, the place of ultimate destination. Special care must be taken to state the correct date of the landing of merchandise from the vessel, and if it was landed on more than one day the first and last day on which each lot was landed must be stated. After the permits above mentioned are entered, the inspector shall enter, under the proper designation, all packages, by marks and numbers, which have been sent either to appraiser's store, sample office, general order store, or elsewhere by special order, and all passengers' baggage sent to public store. For all packages a proper receipt will be required, to correspond with the return. After accounting for the cargo he must enter at the end of his return a list of all the sea stores and of all the coal remaining in the vessel. Such returns shall be signed by the inspectors, respectively, under whose superintendence the deliveries have been made. The names of weighers, gaugers, or measurers who have performed any duty in connection with the cargo shall also be stated.

ART. 52. Discharging inspectors shall make report of goods remaining on board their vessels after the expiration of the authorized time for discharge, in order that collectors may take possession of such goods as unclaimed. Before reporting their vessel as fully discharged they shall make careful personal examination of all parts of such vessel.

WEIGHERS.

ART. 53. Weighers shall be assigned to duty by surveyors. At ports where there is but one weigher the assistant weighers shall be assigned to duty by him. He shall be held responsible for the correct and efficient discharge of their duties, and shall report to the surveyor any misconduct or neglect of duty on the part of any customs officer or other employé.

Weighers are required to be at the places to which they are assigned whenever weighable goods are being handled from vessels. discharging cargo from foreign port. They are required to inspect and take copies of all permits in the hands of the discharging inspectors of vessels whenever the collectors have, by designating articles named in the permits, directed the said articles to be weighed; and weighers are required to have and exercise a personal supervision of the weighing of such merchandise. They must not absent themselves from their office or district during the hours of business unless by permission, nor shall they allow any other than an assistant weigher to take weights or handle the beam.

ART. 54. Each weigher is required to have his weighing implements tested and compared with the official standard at least twice a year, on or as soon after the first day of January and July as possible; and to have the same tested as often as may be necessary to keep the same in conformity with the official standard.

ART. 55. Weighers will be furnished by surveyors with proper blank dock books, in which they shall daily make a true and correct entry of goods weighed, specifying the date the weighing was performed. These books must be so kept that they will contain all the specifications necessary to a perfect account of the merchandise weighed. The weigher should first copy the permit or order in the book, and then proceed, in all cases where the merchandise is required to be weighed by numbers, to enter the number and weight of each separate package weighed by him. The weigher must add the weights stated in each column of his book, and give the gross weight and the net weight of each lot as returned by him, and at the end of all the entries the total gross weights must be recapitulated. The book must be indorsed on the outside with the name of the vessel, the date the return was filed in the surveyor's office, and the weigher's signature.

Whenever required by the collector for the purposes of liquidation the dock book shall be delivered to him for inspection and verification. ART. 56. In order to facilitate the prompt liquidation of duties weighers are required to make a special return of the weight of the articles embraced in each permit or order as soon as the same shall have been ascertained. Weighers shall file their completed books of weights, within six days after the vessel has been discharged, in the

surveyor's office as public records. A separate book shall be kept for the cargo of each vessel.

ART. 57. Before weighing any merchandise the weigher must see that the beam is accurately balanced. As correctness of weights depends very much upon the accuracy of the poise, the beam should always be kept clean and be frequently tested with the standard. A fairly even beam indicates the weight, but as in weighing merchandise it seldom happens that the beam will stand at an exact poise, but will go either above or below an even beam, the weight shall be taken on the rising beam. Weighers are required to mark the weight on each single package weighed.

ART. 58. When a return has been once made by a weigher it must not be amended or changed except by permission of the surveyor. The amended return must state why the amendment is made, and be checked or signed by the weigher before it is presented to the surveyor for his approval. The original figures shall be canceled by cross marks and the amendment added, so as to show both records. When an amendment to a return is allowed, the weigher must correct his dock book in accordance with the amended return.

ART. 59. From every invoice of railroad iron or steel rails a sufficient number of bars of equal length shall be weighed in order to ascertain the average weight thereof, the whole number of bars to be counted, and returns of the weight of such iron must be made as of other weighable merchandise; but if the weight, as shown by the return of the weigher, does not vary more than two per cent from that stated in the invoice, the entry shall be liquidated at the invoice weight. In case a greater variation from invoice weight is shown, the whole quantity embraced therein shall be weighed.

ART. 60. Whenever a permit or order directs that goods be weighed and a special return be made therefor, the weigher shall weigh the goods designated and make a return separate and distinct from any other without delay. If the merchandise has been shipped before the order to weigh is received by the weigher, he shall indorse such fact on the back of the order and return it to the surveyor. Returns of the weighing of a cargo must be made to the collector within six days after the vessel has been discharged. Certificates or copies of weights shall be furnished by the surveyor at ports where there is such an officer; elsewhere by the collector.

CHAPTER IV.

BONDS OF CUSTOMS EMPLOYÉS.

ART. 61. All employés of the customs service who are charged with the custody of funds or property, storekeepers, and such others as may be directed by the collector of customs for Cuba to be bonded,

shall file a good and valid bond for the faithful performance of their duties.

ART. 62. The bonds shall be in such form as may be directed by the collector of customs for Cuba, with a trust or guarantee company legally authorized to do business in the Island of Cuba as sole surety, or with at least two good and sufficient sureties to be approved by the collector of customs for Cuba.

The amount of the bond shall be determined by the collector of customs for Cuba.

ART. 63. Possession of office shall not be given to any official herein required to file a bond until the latter shall have been duly drawn up and accepted. Chief customs officers who violate the provisions of this regulation will be held responsible for the consequences of their action.

CHAPTER V.

CUSTOMS SURVEILLANCE.

ART. 64. In order to secure the collection of the legal duties the custom-houses shall exercise surveillance over the coast, beginning with the moment when a vessel enters the jurisdictional waters of the island of Cuba and concluding when the merchandise imported therein has been legally passed through the custom-houses, except that in case of justifiable suspicion of fraud said merchandise may be followed in its transportation by coasting vessels, by railroad, or by any other means or in any other way by land or water, from one point of the island to another, in which case a new examination shall be made and proof required of the payment of the proper duties at the custom-house of arrival.

The jurisdictional waters of Cuba extend to four leagues from the coasts of the island or from the keys belonging to it.

ART. 65. On the arrival in port of any vessel no person except the pilots, customs and health officers, consuls, and agents of the vessel (with the consent of the customs) shall be allowed to come on board or to leave the vessel, without the permission of the customs officer in charge, until all the passengers and their baggage shall have been duly landed, or, if there are no passengers, until the vessel is completely moored or the master's permission is obtained.

It shall not be lawful for the master of any steamship or other vessel coming from a foreign port, not in distress, after the arrival of the vessel within any collection district of the Island of Cuba, to allow any person or persons, except a pilot, officer of the customs, or health officer, and agents of the vessel (with the consent of the customs), to come on board of the vessel or to leave the vessel until the