copies to the customs inspector there, if any, or to the local authority in the contrary case, and who, after returning the original to the captain upon his departure, shall send one copy to the collector of customs at the port to which the vessel is destined and the other to the collector of customs for Cuba.

ART 79. The master of every vessel bound to a port of Cuba must, on arrival within four leagues of the coast or within the limits of any collection district in which the cargo or any part thereof is intended to be unladen, produce the manifest for inspection to any officer of the customs who may first come on board the vessel, and deliver to him a copy thereof subscribed by him.

The officer, after the requisite examination and comparison of the original and copy, shall certify on the original to its production, and on the copy to the fact of its agreement with the original, and shall forthwith transmit such copy or copies to the collector of the district to which the merchandise may be consigned.

ART. 80. Upon arriving at a port and delivering the manifest, the captain shall present a note in which shall be specified the provisions and supplies which he has on board.

He shall also present another note of the total number of passengers which he brings, and their baggage and effects, separating them according to the ports of their destination.

He shall enter the port with all promptness consistent with the condition of the weather, and the vessel shall stop and cast anchor or take moorings in the position indicated therefor, from which place it shall not be moved without previous permission of the authorities of the port and of the collector of customs.

ART. 81. The Marine-Hospital Service, in accordance with its regulations, shall inspect the vessel and declare whether or not it shall be admitted to "free pratique." If the vessel is admitted to "free pratique," the surveyor shall request the manifest, stamping upon it the time at which it is delivered to him and the ladings which it contains. Afterwards he shall examine the log book, making note of whether it is kept in proper condition and whether it is shown therein that the vessel touched in any other port without the same having been duly set down in the manifest. Upon leaving the vessel to deliver the manifest to the collector of customs, one or more inspectors shall be left on board.

At the time of this visit captains shall report in writing whether they have suffered any accident at sea which has obliged them to lighten any part of their cargo.

ART. 82. Upon receipt by the collector the manifest shall be duly filed, after being stamped with the word "admitted," together with the hour and date of such admission.

ART. 83. The hour at which the manifest is admitted by the collector of customs shall be the basis for the computation of the periods

which may be conceded for the different operations of the customhouse.

ART. 84. Within the period of twenty-four hours next following the entry of a vessel, unless a legal holiday shall intervene, the captain shall present two copies of his own manifest translated into Spanish.

If cargo is carried for more than one port he shall present at the first port, in addition to the copies above mentioned, one copy of the partial cargo destined to the same.

One of the general copies authorized by the collector and containing the information as to whether the original has been certified or not shall be taken by the captain and presented at each one of the intermediate ports at which he may stop, for comparison with the partial ones, and shall serve as a base for all custom-house operations, being certified in each intermediate custom-house and filed in the last.

After presenting the general manifest, with its copies, in the port of first destination, the captain shall present two partial copies of the cargo consigned to each port at each one of the intermediate customhouses.

ART. 85. If the Marine-Hospital Service upon inspection shall order that the vessel remain under observation, a custom-house inspector shall be placed on board or in a launch at a distance to be indicated by the Marine-Hospital Service, in order to exercise proper vigilance over the vessel.

The manifest will be delivered without loss of time to the surveyor of the port with the intervention of the Marine-Hospital Service, and the obligation of presenting the copies shall be counted from the time at which the vessel may be admitted to "free pratique."

ART. 86. Every captain of a vessel entering a port, upon delivering the note of the ship's stores, as provided for in article 80, shall declare, under oath, that said stores are destined exclusively for the use of the vessel and are not intended to be sold nor transferred nor for private use. But if, in the judgment of the collector of customs, the amount of said stores appear excessive, the corresponding duties shall be paid upon said excess.

ART. 87. The manifest shall state the consignees or owners of the merchandise included therein.

When a bill of lading has been made to order, that fact shall be so expressed in the manifest, and the person presenting himself with said bill of lading, in accordance with the last indorsement thereon, shall be held to be the consignee.

Merchandise consigned to order which is not duly entered within three days after the admission of the manifest shall be sent by the collector to general order stores.

ART. 88. The residence of the captain or master of a vessel entered in the harbor is the residence or office of the consignee of the vessel.

If there be no consignee it will be the residence or office of the consul or vice-consul of the nation to which the vessel belongs, and, in the absence of both of these, it will be the vessel which he commands.

Citations or notifications which are left aboard of his vessel, or with any person belonging to the office of the consignee, or of the consulate, shall have the same legal force as if they had been made to the captain in person.

ART. 89. The collector of customs shall order to be placed in the custom-house, in the most prominent spot, a bulletin board where there shall be exhibited to the public a note of the name of the captain of the vessel and of the port of original departure of all vessels which enter the port, and also of the hour at which their manifests were delivered. These notices shall be authorized with the signature of the collector of customs, and shall serve as a basis for computing the periods indicated by these regulations, and shall not be removed until all operations in connection therewith shall have been completed.

ART. 90. The clearance of a vessel shall not be permitted for any other port until she shall have discharged all her cargo, or shall have properly accounted for the same.

ART. 91. Before the departure of a vessel from any port the captain shall deliver to the proper official the manifest of the route of said vessel, specifying the marks, number of packages and description of their contents, together with the names of the shippers and consignees, and with a statement of the value of each separate consignment, as well as of the names of the passengers and their destinations. The dispatch of the vessel will then be permitted. No prohibited or contraband merchandise shall be exported.

SECTION THIRD.

Consignees.

ART. 92. The consignee is the person to whom a vessel or its cargo is directed. There are, therefore, consignees of vessels and consignees of merchandise.

ART. 93. The consignees, both of vessels and of merchandise, can make use of their clerks or custom-house agents for the customs operations.

The clerk must present, before being permitted to dispatch, a writ ten authorization from his principal or employer, who shall thereby become responsible for all acts of said clerk in the conduct of customhouse business. These authorizations shall be registered in a book, which shall be kept by the collector of customs, and shall have full legal force and effect until the principals request their cancellation or the substitution of the same by a written request to the collector of customs, or until they shall be annulled by the collector of customs himself for due cause.

Customs agents may ask, in writing, of the collector of customs for authorization to act as such, and, upon being admitted as a customhouse agent, they shall give bond to the satisfaction of the collector of customs in the sum which he may order, and their names, bonds, and residence shall be registered in a book, which the collector of customs shall keep, and their authorization shall have full legal force and effect until, for due cause, they may be annulled by the collector of customs or until the interested parties cease to be such agents.

ART. 94. The consignee of the vessel shall be considered to be the person whom the captain may designate as such in his manifest, and the consignee of merchandise to be the one indicated in the manifest, in accordance with the bills of lading, when these are made to some determined person; and shall be considered to be the last person in whose favor the said bills of lading are endorsed, in case the merchandise comes consigned to order. A banker holding a bill of lading as a guarantee for money advanced, may transfer it by endorsement to the actual importer. The agents of marine insurance companies shall be recognized as the consignees of merchandise abandoned to the companies, and the salvors of merchandise found in abandoned vessels upon the high seas shall be recognized as the consignees.

The person designated may freely admit or renounce a consignment. The renunciations must be made within 24 hours after the admission of the manifest, and be officially directed to the collector of customs, otherwise the consignment will be understood to be admitted.

CHAPTER VII.

ENTRY OF MERCHANDISE.

ART. 95. All imported merchandise must be entered at the customhouse of the port of arrival either for immediate consumption or in bond by the person holding a bill of lading which names him as the consignee, or a bill of lading endorsed to his order by the consignee named therein. A banker holding a bill of lading as security for advances of money may transfer the same by endorsement to the actual importer. Underwriters will be recognized as consignees of merchandise abandoned to them, and salvors as consignees of merchandise found by them derelict at sea.

A consignee holding a bill of lading drawn to his order or assigns may transfer the same to any person who can lawfully make the required declarations on entry, and the holder of a bill of lading drawn in blank" to order," and endorsed by the shipper or consignor, may make entry of the merchandise specified therein.

Whenever from evidence furnished by the invoice or bill of lading, or as in the case of custom-house brokers and forwarders, by the known business of the parties making entry, the collector has reason

to believe that the consignees named in the bill of lading are, in fact, intermediary agents for the delivery of the merchandise to the ultimate consignees or real owners, there shall be required upon the entry a statement of the names of such ultimate consignees, and bonds must be taken for the production of the declaration of the owner or real importer. And collectors shall, whenever they consider it expedient, require of such ultimate consignees, the bills of sale pertaining to the importation which they may have in their possession.

Duties accrue upon imported merchandise upon arrival of the importing vessel within a port of entry with intent to unlade.

ART. 96. Merchandise which comes consigned to different consignees in the manifest can not be united in a single entry, and it shall be necessary to note in the entry the paragraphs of the manifest which correspond to said merchandise, it being understood by paragraph of the manifest, the consecutive statement of packages and merchandise which the captain makes in his manifest for each consignee.

The declarations shall be numbered consecutively by fiscal years, and there shall be noted in the manifests, opposite the respective paragraphs, the accuracy of the comparison made by the proper official of the custom-house between the manifest and the declaration. The entries shall be made upon an entire sheet of paper. If one is not sufficient, the necessary interior ones shall be added for the purpose, and all shall be duly authorized by the corresponding departments of the custom-house.

They shall be made in duplicate, except in the case of entries for warehouse or immediate transportation, in which case they shall be in triplicate.

ART. 97. In the entries mentioned in the preceding article, the consignees shall set forth the following information:

1. Name of the vessel and of its captain, class, and that of the nation to which it belongs.

2. The port or ports from whence cleared.

3. That of the person to whom the merchandise is consigned.

4. Number and paragraph of the manifest.

5. Number of packages, class, their marks, numbers, description, or statement as to whether they have marks or not.

6. Number and letter of the paragraph of the tariff under which each article is dutiable.

7. Number, class, quality, and quantity of the merchandise in the weights and measures of the tariff. The description of each article shall be sufficient to base thereon the classification.

8. Gross and net weight of each article.

9. There should also be expressed the quality and weight of merchandises which pay different duties under the tariff.

10. The value of the merchandise in detail.