22 LAWS GOVERNING MARINE INSPECTION 



antemeridian) and two additional days' pay for Sunday or holiday 

 duty. The said extra compensation for overtime services shall be. 

 paid by the master, owner, or agent of such vessel to the local 

 United States collector of customs or his representative who shall 

 deposit such collection into the Treasury of the United States to an 

 appropriately designated receipt account. The amount of the re- 

 ceipts so covered during the fiscal year 1936 is authorized to be 

 appropriated and made available for payment of extra compensation 

 for overtime services to the several employees entitled thereto ac- 

 cording to rates fixed therefor by the Secretary of Commerce : Pro- 

 vided^ That eifective July 1, 1936, and thereafter, the amounts of 

 such collections received by the said collector of customs or his 

 representative shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous 

 receipts; and the payments of such extra compensation to the several 

 employees entitled thereto shall be made from the annual appro- 

 priations for salaries and expenses of the Coast Guard: Provided 

 further^ That to the extent that the annual appropriations, which are 

 hereby authorized to be made from the general fund of the Treasury, 

 are insufficient, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated from 

 the general fund of the Treasury such additional amounts as may 

 be necessary, to the extent that the amounts of such receipts are in 

 excess of the amounts appropriated : Provided further^ That such ex- 

 tra compensation shall be paid if such officers or employees have been 

 ordered to report for duty and have so reported, whether the actual 

 inspection of the vessel or her equipment, or the supplying, or signing 

 on, or discharging crews takes place or not : And provided further^ 

 That in those ports where customary working hours are other than 

 those hereinabove mentioned, the Coast Guard officials or collectors 

 of customs, as the case may be, are vested with authority to regulate 

 the hours of such employees so as to agree with prevailing working 

 hours in said ports, but nothing contained in this proviso shall be 

 construed in any manner to alter the length of a working day for the 

 Coast Guard officials or customs officers and employees, or the over- 

 time pay herein fixed. 



Punishment for certifying falsely 



46 U.S.C. 403 (R.S. 4425) 



Every inspector who willfully certifies falsely touching any steam 

 vessel, as to her hull, acconmiodations, boilers, engines, machinery, or 

 other appurtenances, or any of her equipments, or any matter or 

 thing contained in any certificate signed and sworn to by him, shall 

 be punished by fine of not more than $500, or imprisonment for not 

 more than six months, or both. 



Unauthorized fees for inspection of vessels 



18 U.S.C. 1912 



Whoever, being an officer, employee, or a^ent of the I^'^nited States 

 or any agency thereof, engaged in inspection of vessels, u}X)n any 

 pretense, receives any fee or reward for his services, except what is 

 allowed to him by law, shall be fined not more than $500 or impris- 

 oned not more than six months, or both ; and shall forfeit his office. 



