Act No. 355 CHAPTER II.

Section 19–24 · 6 provisions

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Section 19

SEC. 19. The Insular Collector shall, from time to time, make and promulgate general rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law subject to the approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice: 1. Directing the manner of execution of the customs law and laws relating to commerce, navigation, and immigration. 2. Prescribing the duties of the different classes of officers, clerks, and subordinates employed in such service, conferring upon such classes of officers as he may deem proper the right to make arrests seizures. 3. Prescribing the forms of oaths, bonds, entries, declarations, permits, accounts, returns, statements, certificates, and other papers to be used in the execution of the laws relating to customs and to commerce, immigration, and navigation. 4. Directing the manner of keeping books, records, and accounts in such service and the preservation thereof, and the safe-keeping of public property through proper custodians. 5. Prescribing the conditions under which licenses for customhouse brokerage shall be granted and revoked. 6. Prescribing the method of establishing and conducting bonded warehouses for storing imported merchandise, the bonds to be given thereon, the conduct and management thereof, and the manner of transportation thereto and therefrom of dutiable merchandise. 7. Prescribing the method of loading and unloading merchandise and transportation thereof by bonded carriers, railways, vessels, bonded lighters, carts, or otherwise. 8. Prescribing hours for business for the different branches of the service under his direction, and uniforms and official badge for the official force or of such portion thereof as he may deem proper.

Section 20

SEC. 20. If any case shall arise not provided for by this Act or by the regulations of the Insular Collector, or by the lawful decrees, orders, or regulations existing at the passage of this Act and not by this Act repealed, the laws of the United States and the regulations of the Treasury Department of the United States in analogous cases, so far as the same are consistent with the provision of this Act, in the discretion of the Insular Collector, shall be followed and applied so far as they may be practicable.

Section 21

SEC. 21. Collectors of customs and deputy collectors and special of deputy collectors shall have power to administer oaths and to take acknowledgments in all matters relating to their official business, and the Insular Collector, by written designation filed and recorded in his office, may confer like powers on such other officer or class of officers of the customs as he may deem proper.

Section 22

SEC. 22. The insular Collector and each of the district collectors shall have a seal of such make and design as the Insular Collector may prescribe. The commissions of officers and employees subject to the jurisdiction of the Insular Collector shall be signed and sealed by him.

Section 23

SEC. 23. Questions arising at any port shall be referred by the collector thereof to the Insular Collector for his decision, and from his decision there shall be no appeal except as hereinafter provided.

Section 24

SEC. 24. Each collector shall make monthly reports to the Insular Collector of all transactions at his port in the manner and form prescribed by the Insular Collector.

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Source: Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines — Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).