Chapter 92. To facilitate the entry of steamships
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CHAP. 92.— An Act To facilitate the entry of steamships.June 5, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Shipping. That the master of any steamship, trading between foreign ports and ports in the United States, and running in a regularly established steamship line, which line shallPreliminary entry of steamships to boarding officer. have been in existence and running steamers in the foreign trade for not less than one year previous to the application of the privilege extended by this Act, arriving in aport of entry may make preliminary entry of the vessel by making oath or affirmation to the truth of the statements contained in bis manifest and delivering said manifest to the customs officer, who shall board said vessel, whereupon the unlading of such vessel may proceed upon arrival at the wharf, underUnlading at wharf.Formal entry. such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, but nothing in this Act shall relieve the master of any vessel from subsequent compliance with the provisions of existing laws regarding the report and entry of vessels at the custom house.
Customs officersAdministering oath. acting as boarding officers, and any customs officer who may be designated for that purpose by the collector of the port, are hereby authorized to administer the. oath or affirmation herein provided for. 86 Sec. 2. That section twenty-eight hundred and sixty-nine of theDelivery of imported goods.[R. S., sec. 2800, p. 555, amended](/us/rs/t/s2800/p555). Revised Statutes be amended by the substitution of the word “deliver” for the word “land” whenever the latter occurs in said section, so that the section as amended shall read:
" “The collector jointly with the naval officer, if any, or alone where therePermits to deliver merchandise on paying estimated duties. is none, shall, according to the best of his or their judgment or information, make a gross estimate of the amount of the duties on the merchandise to which the entry of any owner or consignee, his factor or agent shall relate, which estimate shall be indorsed upon such entry and signed by the officer making the same. The amount of the estimated duties having been first paid, or secured to be paid, pursuant to the provisions of this title, the collector shall, together with the naval officer, where there is one, or alone where there is none, grant a permit to deliver the merchandise, whereof entry has been so made, and then, and not before, it shall be lawful to deliver the merchandise.
” " Approved, June 5, 1894.