waiting-orders list at the date of the passage of this Act, or hereafter, shall receive seventy-five per centum of the duty pay, salary, and increase of the rank upon which they have been or may be retired: Provided, That no longevity increase of pay shall be allowed for any length of service accruing after retirement.

Repeal.

Act April 12, 1902, c. 501, § 9, 32 Stat. 101.

Sec. 10. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Act April 12, 1902, c. 501, § 10, 32 Stat. 101.

Sec. 2750.

[Superseded. Act April 12, 1902, c. 501, § 1.]

This section is superseded by the provisions relating to the grades of engineers in the service contained in Act April 12, 1902, c. 501, § 1, set forth above.

Sec. 2752.

ACT JULY 31, 1876, c. 246.

Cadets.

The probationary term of cadets, fixed by this section at two years, is made three years by a provision of Act Feb. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1, set forth below.

ACT FEB. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1.

Probationary term of cadets three years.

* * That from and after the approval of this Act the probationary term of cadets in the Revenue-Cutter Service shall be three years instead of two years, as now provided by law.

Act Feb. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1, 32 Stat. 869.

This is a proviso annexed to an appropriation for the division of Revenue-Cutter Service in the Treasury Department, in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, cited above. The term previous to this act was two years, under a provision of Act July 31, 1876, c. 246, Comp. St. 1901, p. 1852.

ACT MARCH 2, 1895, c. 189, § 1.

[Superseded. Act April 12, 1902, c. 501, §§ 5-9.]

The provisions of this section, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1853, are superseded by the subsequent provisions relating to the same subjects contained in Act April 12, 1902, c. 501, §§ 5-9, set forth above.

ACT JUNE 4, 1897, c. 2, § 1.

[Superseded. Act April 12, 1902, c. 501, §§ 1-3.]

The provisions of this act, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1853, relating to the captain of engineers, are superseded by the subsequent provi sions, similar in effect, of Act April 12, 1902, c. 501, §§ 1-3, set forth above.

ACT JULY 1, 1898, c. 546, § 1.

[Superseded. Act April 12, 1902, c. 501, §§ 1-3.]

The provisions of this act, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1854, relating to the constructor in the service, are superseded by the subsequent provisions, similar in effect, of Act April 12, 1902, c. 501, §§ 1-3, set forth above.

Sec. 2753.

[Superseded. Act April 12, 1902, c. 501, § 3.1

The provisions of this section, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1854, relating to the compensation of officers of the service, are superseded by the subsequent provisions of Act April 12, 1902, c. 501, § 3, set forth above.

Sec. 2757.

Revenue officers to co-operate with the Navy.

No provision of the act to promote the efficiency of the Revenue-Cutier Service, Act April 12, 1902, c. 501, set forth above, is to be construed as giving any officer of the service control over any vessel, officer, or man of the naval service, nor shall any officer of the naval service exercise control over any vessel, officer, or man of the Revenue-Cutter Service, except by direction of the President, by a proviso annexed to section 2 of that act..

Where vessels from foreign ports may enter and unlade.

The laws relating to entry, clearance, and manifests of vessels arriving from or going to foreign ports apply to voyages each way between the Philippine Islands and the United States and possessions thereof, and all laws relating to the collection and protection of customs duties apply in the case of vessels and goods arriving from said islands in the United States and its possessions, by provisions of Act July 1, 1902, c. 1369, § 84, set forth below.

ACT JULY 1, 1902, c. 1369, § 84.

Application of laws relating to shipping, customs duties, seamen, health, etc., to vessels making voyages between the Philippine Islands and the United States, vessels and goods arriving from said Islands, seamen on voyages going to said Islands, etc.; application of laws concerning transit of merchandise through the United States, to merchandise destined to any of its possessions or from them to foreign countries; effect of act on previous provisions. That the laws relating to entry, clearance, and manifests of steamships and other vessels arriving from or going to foreign ports shall apply to voyages each way between the Philippine Islands and the United States and the possessions thereof, and all laws relating to the collection and protection of customs duties not inconsistent with the Act of Congress of March eighth, nineteen hundred and two,

"temporarily to provide revenue for the Philippine Islands," shall apply in the case of vessels and goods arriving from said Islands in the United States and its aforesaid possessions.

The laws relating to seamen on foreign voyages shall apply to seamen on vessels going from the United States and its possessions aforesaid to said Islands, the customs officers there being for this purpose substituted for consular officers in foreign ports.

The provisions of chapters six and seven, title forty-eight, Revised Statutes, so far as now in force, and any amendments thereof, shall apply to vessels making voyages either way between ports of the United States or its aforesaid possessions and ports in said Islands; and the provisions of law relating to the public health and quarantine shall apply in the case of all vessels entering a port of the United States or its aforesaid possessions from said Islands, where the customs officers at the port of departure shall perform the duties required by such law of consular officers in foreign ports.

Section three thousand and five, Revised Statutes, as amended, and other existing laws concerning the transit of merchandise through the United States, shall apply to merchandise arriving at any port of the United States destined for any of its insular and continental possessions, or destined from any of them to foreign countries.

Nothing in this Act shall be held to repeal or alter any part of the Act of March eighth, nineteen hundred and two, aforesaid, or to apply to Guam, Tutuila, or Manua, except that section eight of an Act entitled "An Act to revise and amend the tariff laws of the Philippine Archipelago," enacted by the Philippine Commission on the seventeenth of September, nineteen hundred and one, and approved by an Act entitled "An Act temporarily to provide revenues for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes," approved March eighth, nineteen hundred and two, is hereby amended so as to authorize the Civil Governor thereof in his discretion to establish the equivalent rates of the money in circulation in said Islands with the money of the United States as often as once in ten days.

Act July 1, 1902, c. 1369, § 84, 32 Stat. 711.

This section is part of an act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes, cited above.

The provisions of Act March 8, 1902, c. 140, mentioned in this section, are set forth or referred to ante, under Title XXXIII, "Duties upon Imports."

The laws relating to entry, clearance, and manifests of vessels, mentioned in this section, are contained in this chapter of the Revised Statute, and in Title XLVIII, "Regulation of Commerce and Navigation," c. 2, and subsequent provisions, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, pp. 1858-1907, 2839-2848; and the laws relating to the collection, etc., of customs duties, also mentioned therein, are contained in this Title of the Revised Statutes and subsequent provisions, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, pp. 1705-2037.

The laws relating to seamen on foreign voyages, mentioned in this section, are contained in Rev. St. Title LIII, and subsequent provisions, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, pp. 3061-3125.

Rev. St. Title XLVIII, cc. 6, 7, mentioned in this section and amendments thereof, are set forth in Comp. St. 1901, pp. 2929-2949; and provisions relating to public health and quarantine, also mentioned there

in, are contained in Rev. St. Title LVIII, "The Public Health," and subsequent provisions, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, pp. 3305–3319.

Rev. St. § 3005, as amended, mentioned in this section, is set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1982.

Sec. 2787.

[Amended. Act March 2, 1905, c. 1306.]

This section is amended by Act March 2, 1905, c. 1306, set forth below.

ACT MARCH 2, 1905, c. 1306. [H. R. 16646.]

An Act to Amend Section Twenty-seven hundred and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States. (33 Stat. 826.) Amendment of Rev. St. § 2787.

Be it enacted, &c., That section twenty-seven hundred and eightyseven of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

Bond by agent [factor, etc.; cancellation of bond; general bond by agent, factor, or common carrier].

"Sec. 2787. Whenever any entry is made with the collector of any district of merchandise imported into the United States subject to duty by any agent, factor, or person, other than the person to whom it belongs or to whom it is ultimately consigned, the collector shall take a bond with surety from such agent, factor, or person in the penal sum of an amount equal to double the estimated duties, with condition that the actual owner or consignee of such merchandise shall deliver to the collector a full and correct account of the merchandise imported by him, or for him on his own account, or consigned to his care, in the same manner and form as required in respect to any entry previous to the landing of merchandise; which account shall be verified by a like oath, as in the case of an entry, to be taken and subscribed before any judge of the United States, or the judge of any court of record of a State, or before any collector of the customs, or before any properly qualified notary whose seal shall be attested by the clerk of the county in which he is resident, or before any notary public designated. by the Secretary of the Treasury. In case of the payment of the duties at the time of entry by any factor or agent on the merchandise entered by him, the condition of the bond shall be to produce the account of the proper owner or consignee, verified in manner as before directed, within ninety days from the date of such bond.

"The bond in no case shall be for less than one hundred dollars, and may not be required when the entered value of the merchandise does not exceed one hundred dollars. In the event of failure to produce the declaration of the owner or ultimate consignee within the time herein prescribed the bond may be cancelled, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, upon due proof that the factor or agent who entered the merchandise exercised proper diligence in the effort to fulfill the requirements of this Act."

Provided, That with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury any agent, factor, or common carrier engaged in the entry of merchan

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dise at the port of first arrival may give a general penal bond at said port for the production of the oaths of owners or ultimate consignees. Said bond shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury at an amount sufficient in his opinion to cover all obligations to the United States that may accrue, and the record and cancellation of liabilities under said general bond shall be in accordance with such rules as he may prescribe.

Act March 2, 1905, c. 1306, 33 Stat. 826.

Rev. St. § 2787, amended by this act, is set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1869. The amendment changes and adds to the language of the section as originally enacted, to read as in the first paragraph as set forth here, and adds thereto the last two paragraphs.

Sec. 2839.

ACT JUNE 10, 1890, c. 407, § 1.

Merchandise imported deemed property of consignee.

The provisions of this act as amended, set forth and referred to in Comp. St. 1901, pp. 1886-1898, apply to all articles coming into the United States from the Philippine Archipelago, by Act March 8, 1902, c. 140. § 8, set forth below.

Section 20 of this act, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1950, is amended by Act Dec. 15, 1902, c. 1, set forth post, under chapter 7 of this Title.

ACT MARCH 8, 1902, c. 140, § 8.

Provisions of customs-administration act applicable to articles coming from the Philippine Archipelago.

That the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to simplify the laws in relation to the collection of revenues," approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the Government and to encourage the industries of the United States," approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, shall apply to all articles coming into the United States from the Philippine Archipelago.

Act March 8, 1902, c. 140, § 8, 32 Stat. 55.

This section is part of an act temporarily to provide revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes, cited above, other sections of which are set forth or referred to ante, under Title XXXIII, “Duties upon Imports."

Sec. 2855.

Indorsement upon invoice.

The destruction of invoices on file in consular offices for more than five years may be authorized by Act Feb. 24, 1903, c. 753, set forth below.

ACT FEB. 24, 1903, c. 753.

An Act to Permit the Secretary of State to Cause the Destruction of Invoices of Merchandise Exported to the United States, Which Have Been on File in the Consular Offices for More than Five Years. (32 Stat. 854.)

Invoices on file in consular offices; destruction authorized.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of State is authorized to