AUTHENTICATING COPIES OF PAPERS. 7. Of advertisement for funds on bottomry. 8. Of inventories and letters, or either, of master 9. Of marine note of protest. 10. Of extended protest. 11. Of account of sales of vessel, cargo, provisions, and stores, or either.. 12. Of call, warrant, and report of survey on vessel, hatches, cargo, provisions, and stores, or either... AUTHENTICATING SIGNATURES.' * 13. To average bonds..... 14. To estimate of repairs of vessels... $1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 15. To (auctioneer's) account of sales of vessel or cargo, provisions or stores. 1 00 16. To reports of survey on vessel or cargo, provisions or stores..... 17. To forms of application for arrears of pay [and?] of bounty of deceased or disabled soldiers... 18. For authenticating all the vouchers and other papers necessary for drawing a pension 19. To bill of health.... CERTIFICATES. 20. To indorsement of bottomry on ship's register.. 21. To ditto on payment of bottomry on ship's register.. 22. To ditto of new ownership on ship's register... 1 00 23. To canceling ship's register 1 00 24. To value of foreign currency in triplicate.... 1 00 25. Debenture certificate, including oaths of master and mate, and the complete execution of the certificate... 2 50 26. For the medical examination authorized by the Act of June 2, 1879, or crew.... 5 00 28. To the deposit of a ship's registers and papers, when required by custom-house authorities... 1 00 29. In cases of vessels deviating from the voyage.. 1 00 30. To invoice of breeding animals..... 2 50 31. To invoice of works of art, the production of American artists. 32. To manifest of fish, oil, bone, etc... 2 50 2 50 33. To a vessel's manifest.... 2 50 for each emigrant. 34. To the purchase of foreign-built or American vessel abroad..... 36. To invoice, including declaration, in triplicate.... * When it is possible to embrace several signatures in one certificate, the consul will do so, and but one fee will be charged for such certificate. 37. To invoice of goods, not exceeding $100 in value, in British North American Provinces... 38. To place of birth of emigrants, and only when desired by them.. 39. For marriage certificate... .$1 00 25 1 00 2 00 40. To appointment of new master, including oath of master.. 44. To master to take home destitute American seamen.. .No fee. 45. To conduct of crew on board, in cases of refusal of duty, and in cases of imprisonment, etc... 2 00 46. To roll or list of crew, when required by the captain or authorities of the port..... 1 00 DECLARATIONS AND OATHS. 47. Declaration and oath of master to one or more desertions, including oaths, attached to crew-list and shipping articles.... 48. To one or more deaths or losses of seamen overboard at sea, including oaths, attached to crew-list and shipping articles... 49. To ship's inventories or stores.. 50. To the correctness of log-book... 51. To ship's bills and vouchers for disbursements and repairs. 52. To the animals, vehicles, and goods of an emigrant, including certificate 53. When seamen are picked up at sea 50 .No fee. 57. To authorities or captain of the port, in cases of sinking vessels.. 1 00 58. Requesting the arrest of seamen... 1 00 59. Notice to master of result of examination on complaint of crew. 1 00 60. Warrant of survey on vessels, hatches, cargo, provisions, and stores, or either... 1 00 66. For extending marine protest.... 67. And if it exceed two hundred words, for every additional one hundred words..... 68. Protest of master against charterers or freighters. ESTATES OF DECEASED AMERICAN CITIZENS. 69. For taking into possession the personal estate of any citizen who shall die within the limits of a consulate, inventorying, selling, and finally 5 00 1 00 2.00 settling, and preparing or transmitting, according to law, the balance RECORDING DOCUMENTS. 70. Appointment of a new master... 71. Average bonds, when required, for every one hundred words, or less.. 74. Consul's letter to captain of port, or authorities, in cases of sinking 75. Order and consul's certificate to pay seamen's wages at home.... 76. Powers of attorney, when required, for every one hundred words or less 77. Protests of masters and others, other than marine protests, for every one hundred words or less..... .$ 50 78. Calls of survey on vessel, hatches, cargo, provisions, and stores, or either; warrants and reports thereof; estimates of repairs; certificates of consuls to advertisements for funds on bottomry, and of sale of vessel; inventory of vessel, cargo, provisions, and stores; letter of master to consul notifying sale of vessel, cargo, provisions, and stores, or either; letter of master to auctioneer, and account of sales of vessel, cargo, provisions, and stores, or either, for every one hundred words or less of any document required to be recorded, except consul's certificate to masters taking home American seamen. 79. Any other document or instrument of writing not herein named or enumerated, prepared in or out of the consulate, and required to be recorded, for every one hundred words or less.. RECEIVING AND DELIVERING SHIP'S PAPERS. 80. For receiving and delivering ship's register and papers, including consular certificates, as prescribed in Forms Nos. 13 and 14, one cent on every ton, registered measurement, of the vessel for which the service is performed, if under one thousand tons; but American vessels, running regularly by weekly or monthly trips, or otherwise, to or between foreign ports, shall not be required to pay tonnage fees for more than four trips in a year; and tonnage fees shall not be exacted from any vessel of the United States touching at or near ports in Canada on her regular voyage from one port to another within the United States, unless some official service required by law shall be performed... 81. And for every additional ton over one thousand, one half of one cent.. នននន 50 50 50 SHIPPING OR DISCHARGING SEAMEN. 82. For every seaman who may be discharged or shipped, including the certificates or acknowledgments thereof attached to crew-list and shipping articles, to be paid by the master of the vessel.. FILING DOCUMENTS IN CONSULATE. 83. Consul's certificate to advertisement for funds on bottomry. 86. Advertisement of sale of vessel, cargo, provisions, and stores, or either $1 00 25 25 25 25 25 88. Of master notifying auctioneer of sale of vessel, cargo, provisions, and stores, or either..... 25 25 89. Accounts of sale of vessel, cargo, provisions, and stores, or either... 90. Calls of survey on vessel, hatches, cargoes, provisions, and stores, or either... 91. Warrants of survey on vessels, hatches, cargoes, provisions, and stores, or either..... 92. Reports of survey on vessels, hatches, cargoes, provisions, and stores, or either.... 93. For filing any other document prepared in or out of the consulate... 25 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 94. For the indorsement on the bill of health required by Rule 3 of Rules 97. For attending sale of goods, for every day's attendance during which the sale continues.... 98. For attending sale of vessel, when required........ 5 00 5 00 99. For attendance at a shipwreck, or for the purpose of assisting a ship 5 00 2.00 101. For clearance when issued by the consul, as at free ports... 2.00 2.00 1 00 seamen. SEALING CARS COMING FROM CANADA. .No fee. 105. For each manifest, with the consul's certificate, and for sealing of each car, vessel, bale, barrel, box, or package.. 25 106. For the first hundred words, fifty cents; and for every additional hundred words, or less, twenty-five cents. Consular Receipts. 178. It is the duty of all owners, agents, consignees, masters, and commanders of vessels, to whom any receipt for fees is given by any consular officer, to furnish a copy thereof to the collector of the district in which such vessels shall first arrive on their return to the United States, and the collector must forward such copies to the Secretary of the Treasury. (Rev. Stat., § 4,213.) The design is evidently to place a check upon illegal exactions. It is, therefore, the interest, as well as the duty, of masters and others to observe this law. Limitation of Importations to Vessels of Thirty Tons. 179. No merchandise of foreign growth or manufacture, subject to the payment of duties, can be lawfully brought into the United States from any foreign port otherwise than by sea, nor in any vessel of less than thirty tons, custom-house measurement, except into certain districts on the northern, northwestern, and western inland frontiers of the United States, adjoining to the Dominion of Canada, or into the districts adjacent to Mexico, under penalty of the forfeiture of the vessels and the merchandise. (Rev. Stat., $ 3,095.) 180. Clearance coastwise. Custom-House Fees. For certifying manifest and granting permit for licensed vessel to proceed, if of less than 50 tons (§ 4,381):.. $ 25 If of 50 tons or more (§ 4,382).. 50 For certifying manifest and granting permit for registered vessel to proceed (§ 4,381).... 1 50 For receiving manifest and granting permit for vessel not of the United States to proceed....... (Decision 3,815, § 4,381).. 2 00 For permit to vessel under fishing license, to touch and trade 181. Clearance on northerly inland frontiers. For certifying manifest and granting permit for vessel to proceed, if under 50 tons (§ 4,382).... If of 50 tons or more (§ 4,382). * When parties have a right to call for copies, consular officers must make them at this rate. The fee for the copies is not an official fee to be accounted for. |