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before departing from her loading port or place to provide a ship's 

 record or log book and enter therein a statement of the position of 

 the load line marked applicable to the voyage in question and the 

 actual drafts forward and aft at the time of departing as nearly 

 as the said drafts can be ascertained. 



Detention of vessels loaded in violation of sections 88-88i 

 46 U.S.C. SSf 



If any collector of customs or Coast Guard district commander has 

 reason to believe on complaint or otherwise that a vessel subject to the 

 provisions of sections 88-88i of this title is about to proceed on a 

 voyage from a port in the United States or its possessions within his 

 district without conforming to the provisions of section 88b of this 

 title hereof, or when loaded in violation of section 88c of this title 

 hereof, or that any vessel exempted pursuant to section 88d of this 

 title hereof is about to proceed on a voyage from such port when loaded 

 in violation of the laws and regulations of her country with respect to 

 load line, he may serve on the master or officer in charge of such vessel 

 a written order detaining the vessel for the purpose of being surveyed 

 to determine whether or not the provisions of sections 88-88i of this 

 title are complied with. Where the detention is on the ground that the 

 vessel does not conform to the provisions of section 88b of this title, 

 the collector or Coast Guard district commander shall cause an exami- 

 nation of the vessel to be made, and if from such examination it ap- 

 pears that the vessel is not marked with the load line established in 

 conformity with the provisions of sections 88-88i of this title, the 

 collector or Coast Guard district commander shall so notify the master 

 or officer in charge of such vessel and shall detain her until a load line 

 shall have been duly established in accordance with section 88b of this 

 title, provided that in cases of exceptional hardship, subject to regula- 

 tions issued by the Commandant of the Coast Guard, the collector or 

 Coast Guard district commander may cause a proper load line to be 

 provisionally established by one of the agencies or persons designated 

 under section 88b of this title, which provisional load line shall con- 

 stitute a compliance with the provisions of sections 88-88i of this title 

 only until completion of the particular voyage in which the vessel is 

 at the time engaged. After such establishment or provisional estab- 

 lishment of a load line the collector or Coast Guard district commander 

 shall appoint three disinterested surveyors to examine the loading of 

 the vessel and to report to him whether such vessel is so loaded as to 

 submerge said provisional load line and if from such report it appears 

 that the vessel is so loaded, the collector or Coast Guard district com- 

 mander may by written order served on the master or officer in charge 

 of said vessel detain the A^essel until she has lieen reloaded in wliole or 

 in part so as not to submerge said provisional load line or lines. "\Aniere 

 the detention is on the ground of a supposed violation of section 88c 

 or section 88d of this title, the collector or Coast Guard district com- 

 mander shall appoint three disinterested surveyors to examine the ves- 

 sel and her loading and to report to him. and if from such report it 

 appears that the vessel is loaded in violation of the provisions of sec- 

 tion 88c or 88d of this title, the collector or Coast Guard district com- 

 mander shall so notify in writing the master or other officer in charge 



