26 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
tacea, sponges, or any other products of the sea, rivers, or lakes, whether 
said vessel be enrolled or licensed for either the fisheries or the coast- 
ing trade, shall be surrendered or shall have expired, the owner or 
agent of said vessel shall furnish to the collector of customs for the 
district in which the papers are to be surrendered or renewed, or to his 
duly authorized representative, an accurate and detailed report of the 
quantities of fish, shell-fish, Crustacea, sponges, oil, whalebone, ivory, 
skins, and other primary and secondary products of the fisheries taken 
or transported by the crew or crews of said vessel during the period 
that may have elapsed since the last issuance or renewal of the papers 
under which the vessel has been sailing, specifying therein the quantity 
of each of the different kinds of fish and other products, the locality 
where obtained, the quantity taken within three miles of the mainland or 
islands of the United States, or of the maiuland or islands belonging to 
other countries, and such other particulars as may be required by the 
Secretary of the Treasury ; and if at any time the vessel shall change 
ownership, the former owner or agent shall, prior to the transfer of 
said vessel to her new owner or owners, make out and deliver to the 
collector of customs at the former home port of the vessel a full and 
accurate report, as above described, for such portion of the year as 
may have elapsed between the issuance or renewal of the last papers 
and the date of sale, evidence from said collector of the receipt of the 
same being required by the collector in the district into which the ves- 
sel has been brought; and if any owner or agent of any vessel employed 
as above described shall fail to deliver such record to the proper col- 
lector of customs, or his duly authorized representative, covering the 
period beginning with the issuance or renewal of the last papers and 
ending with the date of proffered surrender of the papers or application 
for their renewal, which in no case shall exceed one year, or, in case of 
sale, prior to the transfer of the vessel to her new owners, said vessel 
shall be debarred from receiving a new license, any existing law or laws 
to the contrary notwithstanding, until such record or statement shall 
have been produced; and the owner or agent failing to conform to 
these requirements shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred dollars, 
which may be collected and distributed in the same manner as are fines 
for the violation of the customs-revenue laws ; and the form of such 
record or report shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
and such records shall be returned within thirty days by the proper 
collectors of customs to the Secretary of the Treasury; and the pecun- 
iary penalty herein described shall be subject to remission or mitiga- 
tion by the Secretary of the Treasury if, upon investigation, he shall 
be satisfied that it was incurred without wilful disregard of law ; and 
any law or laws now in force and authorizing the issuance of documents 
to vessels shall remain inoperative in the case of vessels above de- 
scribed until such time as the owner or agent shall have complied 
with the requirements of this act. 
