24 LAWS GOVERNING MARINE INSPECTION 



Demanding or receiving remuneration for supplying seamen for 

 merchant vessels; penalty 



46 U.S.C. 542a (R.S. 4595) 



Every Coast Guard official to whom the duties of shipping com- 

 missioner have been delegated and every clerk or employee m any 

 shipping office, who demands or receives any remuneration whatever, 

 either directly or indirectly, for hiring or supplying any seaman for 

 any merchant vessels shall for every such offense be liable to a penalty 

 of not more than $200. (R.S. §4595; June 19, 1886, ch. 421, § 1, 

 24 Stat. 79; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 101-104, eff. July 16, 1946, 

 11 F.R. 7875, 60 Stat. 1097.) 



When officers of customs shall act 



46 U.S.C. 543 (R.S. 4503) 



In any port in which no Coast Guard official to perform the duties 

 of shipping commissioner shall have been appointed, the wliole or any 

 part of the business of a shipping commissioner shall be conducted 

 by the collector or deputy collector of customs of such port ; and in 

 respect of such business sucli customhouse shall be deemed a shipping 

 office, and the collector or deputy collector of customs to whom such 

 business shall be committed, shall, for all purposes, be deemed a Coast 

 Guard official to whom the duties of shipping commissioner within 

 the meaning of title 53 of the Revised Statutes have been delegated. 

 (R.S. § 4503; 1946, Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 101-104, eff. July 16, 1946, 

 11 F.R: 7875, 60 Stat. 1097.) 



