R. S., 3679. Sec. 3. at once given by the clerk to the Attorney-General. That No Executive Department or other Government establishment of the United States shall expend, in any one Feb. 27, 1906. fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract or other obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law. Nor shall any Department or any officer of the Government. accept voluntary service for the Government or employ personal service in excess of that authorized by law, except in cases of sudden emergency involving the loss of human life or the destruction of property. All appropriations made for contingent expenses or other general purposes, except appropriations made in fulfillment of contract obligations expressly authorized by law, or for objects required or authorized by law without reference to the amounts annually appropriated therefor, shall, on or before the beginning of each fiscal year, be so apportioned by monthly or other allotments as to prevent expenditures in one portion of the year which may necessi tate deficiency or additional appropriations to complete the service of the fiscal year for which said appropriations are made; and all such apportionments shall be adhered to and shall not be waived or modified except upon the happening of some extraordinary emergency or unusual circumstance which could not be anticipated at the time of making such apportionment, but this provision shall not apply to the contingent appropriations of the Senate or House of Representatives; and in case said apportionments are waived or modified as herein provided, the same shall be waived or modified in writing by the head of such Executive Department or other Government. establishment having control of the expenditure, and the reasons therefor shall be fully set forth in each particular case and communicated to Congress in connection with estimates for any additional appropriations required on account thereof. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be summarily removed from office and may also be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than one. month. PART XLVII. FEES PAYABLE BY PRIVATE PERSONS. 477. 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 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.] der. Mar. 3, 1913. Executive or- There shall be one collector of customs for each of the customs collection districts above established [for list of customs collection districts see par. 478, p. 527], 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. 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 fifty-three of the Revised Statutes [R. S., 45014612] 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 eighty-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 detailed report of such services, and the fees provided by law, to the Secretary of Commerce, under such Feb. 14, 1903. regulations as that officer may prescribe; and the Secre- Sec. 10. tary 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. 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 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 shipping commissioners in Mar. 4, 1915. amounts not exceeding the following: Baltimore, $1,200; Boston, $3,000; New Bedford, $1,200; New Orleans, $1,500; New York, $5,000; Norfolk, $1,500; Philadelphia, $2,400; Portland, Maine, $1.300; Seattle, $3,500; Providence, $1,800; Rockland, $1,200; San Francisco, $4,000; in all, $27,600. All fees exacted and oaths administered by officers of June 10, 1890. the customs, except as provided in this act, under or by Sec. 22. 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 2.50 1.50 2.50 1.50 Post-entry-‒‒ 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_. 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_ Official certificate, except as above stated__ Collector's certificate to shipping articles.... .40 .20 Special certificate to cancel bond not given in connection with entry of merchandise, etc., under act 1890__. .20 Duties performed by surveyor on vessel of whatever tonnage with free cargo or ballast.. 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_ Certified copy of outward manifest, if required (fee abolished). 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 1.50 67 Certificate of American growth or production, if required.... .20 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. |