Part XLVI.-FEES PAYABLE BY PRIVATE PERSONS 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, 1890, 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wherever practicable in the text of this compilation, provisions requiring the payment of fees have been omitted as no longer in force between the master or owner of a vessel of the United States and the Government, but in force only as determining the compensa tion, in some instances, paid by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.] There shall be one collector of customs for each of the customs collection districts above established [for list of customs collection districts see p. 428], who shall receive the compensation hereafter set forth, which shall constitute all the compensation and emoluments to be received by him and which shall be in lieu of all fees, commissions, salaries, or other emoluments of any name or nature (including the right to charge for blank manifests and clearances under the provisions of section 2648 of the Revised Statutes) heretofore received by or allowed to him. All moneys collected or received by such collectors of customs in their official capacities, whether as fees, storage, commissions, or from the sale of blank forms or otherwise, shall be covered into the Treasury. (Executive order, Mar. 3, 1913.) On and after July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, 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 tit e; furnishing the crew list, certificate of protection to seamen; bill of health; shipping or discharging of seamen, as provided by title fifty-three 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 co lection of fees for such services are repealed, such repeal to take effect July first, eighteen hundred and eight-six. Collectors or other officers of customs, inspectors of steam vessels, and shipping commissioners who are paid wholly or partly by fees shall make a de tailed report of such services, and the fees provided by law, to the Secretary of Commerce, under such regulations as that officer may prescribe; and the Secretary of the Treasury [or the Secretary of Commerce] 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, been necessarily rendered. (June 19, 1886; Feb. 14, 1903, sec. 10.) So much of the Act approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six (Statutes at Large, volume twenty-four, page seventynine), 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 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. (June 25, 1910.) All fees exacted and oaths administered by officers of 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. (June 10, 1899, sec. 22.) Every collector and comptroller of customs shall cause to be affixed and constantly kept in some conspicuous place in his office a fair table of the rates of fees demandable by this Title. (Title L; R. S. 4383.) Part XLVII. CUSTOMS DISTRICTS, BOUNDARIES, AND PORTS OF ENTRY District and number [The first port named in each district is the headquarters port] Boundary of district Ports of entry ATLANTIC COAST Maine and New Maine, and New Hampshire except Coos Portland, Bangor, Bar Harbor, Bath, Hampshire (1). County. Belfast, Calais, Eastport, Fort Fairfield, Fort Kent, Frenchville, Houlton, Jonesport, Limestone, Holeb, Jackman, Madawaska, Mars Hill, Portsmouth (including Kittery, Me.), Robbinston, Rockland, Vanceboro, and Van Buren. Boston (including Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Medford, Quincy, and Somerville), Fall River, Gloucester, New Bedford, Plymouth, Provincetown, Salem (including Beverly, Marblehead, and Lynn), Springfield, Vineyard Haven, and Worcester. Providence and Newport. Bridgeport, Greenwich, Hartford, Mid dletown, New Haven, New London, Norwalk, South Manchester, and Stamford. New York, Albany, Newark, and Perth Amboy. Philadelphia (to include Camden and Charleston, Beaufort, and Georgetown. Tampa (including Port Tampa), Apalachicola, Bocagrande, Fernandina (including St. Marys, Ga.), Jacksonville, Key West, Miami, Panama City, Pensacola, St. Augustine, and West Palm Beach. Mobile, Birmingham, Gulfport, and Pascagoula. New Orleans and Morgan City. Galveston (including Port Bolivar and Texas City), Dallas, and Houston. San Antonio, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Fort Worth, Hidalgo, Laredo, and Rio Grande City. El Paso, Columbus, N. Mex., and Presidio. San Juan, Aguadilla, Arecibo, Arroyo, Fajardo, Guanica, Humacao, Maya guez, and Ponce. Customs districts, boundaries, and ports of entry-Continued Oregon (29) Oregon, and the north bank of the Co- Washington (30).... Washington, except north bank of Nogales, Douglas, and Naco. Los Angeles, Calexico, Port San Luis, San Francisco (including Oakland) and Portland, Astoria, Marshfield, and Seattle, Aberdeen, Anacortes, Belling- Salt Lake City. Colorado (47) Utah and Nevada (48). NORTHERN LAKES Vermont (2) Colorado.. Utah and Nevada.. Vermont, and Coos County in New St. Lawrence (7).... Clinton, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence, Rochester (8). Buffalo (9). Oswego, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Niagara, Erie, Cattaraugus, and Chau- Michigan (38)....... Michigan, except Isle Royal....... Chicago (39) – . St. Albans (including townships of St. Buffalo, Dunkirk, Lewiston, and Niag- Illinois north of 39°, and Indiana north Chicago, Peoria, and Michigan City. Wisconsin south of 46°. Milwaukee, Green Bay, Manitowoc, Marinette (including Menominee), Racine, Sheboygan, and Sturgeon Bay. Duluth and Superior (including West Superior), Ashland, Baudette, International Falls, Ranier, Two Harbors, and Warroad. Memphis, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Little Louisville and Paducah. St. Louis (including East St. Louis), North and South Dakota, and Kittson Pembina, Ambrose, Antler, Crosby, County in Minnesota. Hannah, Hansboro, Neche, North- |