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also make and subscribe a temporary certificate, which shall set 

 forth substantially the fact of such inspection and approval, and 

 shall deliver the same to the master or owner of the vessel and shall 

 keep a copy thereof on file in liis office. The said temporary certifi- 

 cate shall be carried and exposed by vessels in the same manner as 

 is provided in section 400 of this title for the regular certificate, and 

 the form thereof and the period during which it is to be in 

 force shall be as prescribed under the authority of section 375 of 

 tliis title. And such temporary certificate, during such period and 

 prior to the delivery to the master or owner of the regular certificate, 

 shall take the place of and be a substitute for the regular certificate 

 of inspection, as required by this section and by section 404 of this 

 title, and for the purposes of said sections. Such temporary cer- 



i tificate shall also be subject to revocation in the manner and under 



I the conditions provided in section 435 of this title. No vessel re- 

 quired to be inspected under the provisions of title 52 of the Revised 



j Statutes shall be navigated without having on board an unex- 

 pired regular certificate of such inspection or such temporary 



I certificate: Provided, haioever, That any such vessel operated upon 

 a regularly established line from a port of the United States to a 

 port of a foreign country not contiguous to the United States whose 

 certificate of inspection expires at sea or while said vessel is in 

 a foreign port or a port of Hawaii may lawfully complete her voy- 

 age without the regular certificate of inspection or the temporary 

 certificate required by this section, and no liability for penalties 

 imposed by title 52 of the Revised Statutes for want of such certifi- 

 cate shall be incurred until her voyage shall have been com- 

 pleted: Provided, That said voyage shall be so completed within 

 thirty days after the expiration of said certificate or temporary 

 certificate: Provided further, That no such vessel whose certificate 

 of inspection shall expire within fifteen days of the date of her sailing 

 shall proceed upon her voyage to such port of a foreign country not 

 contiguous to the United States without first having procured a new 

 certificate of inspection or the temporary certificate required by this 

 section. 



Delegation of Functions 



See Treasury Department Order CGFR 56-28 with 46 U.S.C. 391, 

 page 85. 



Placing of certificate for observation by passengers 



46 U.S.C. 400 (R.S. 4423) 



The original certificate of inspection delivered to the master or 

 owner of a steam vessel shall be placed by such master or owner in 

 a conspicuous place in the vessel where it will be most likely to be 

 observed by passengers and others, and there kept at all times, framed 

 under glass, as evidence of the authority thereby conferred: Provided 

 hotoever, That where it is not practicable to so expose said certificate, 

 it shall be carried in the vessel in such manner as shall be prescribed 

 by the regulations established by the Commandant of the Coast Guard. 



