SEC. 349. In order to secure the collection of the legal duties the custom-houses shall exercise surveillance over the coast, beginning with the moment when a vessel enters the jurisdictional waters of the Philippine Archipelago and concluding when the merchandise imported therein has been legal passed through the customhouses, except that in cases of justifiable suspicion of fraud said merchandise may be followed in its transportation by coasting vessels, by railroad, or by any other means or in any other way by land or water, from one point in the islands to another, in which case a new examination shall be made and proof required of the payment of the proper duties at the custom-house of arrival.
SEC. 350. Upon the arrival in port of any vessel, no person, except the pilot, customs and health officers, consuls, and agents of the vessel (with the consent of the customs officers), shall be allowed or to go on board the vessel, without the permission of the customs officer in charge, until all the passengers and their baggage shall have been landed, or, if there are no passengers, until the vessel is completely moored, or until the master's permission is obtained; nor shall any person, with the exceptions above named, leave the vessel without the permission of the customs officer in charge, until all the passengers and their baggage shall have been duly landed, if there are passengers.
Upon the arrival in port of any vessel, it shall be unlawful for the master to allow any person, except the pilot, customs and health officers, consuls, and agents of the vessel (with the consent of the customs officers), to go on board the vessel, without the permission of the customs officer in charge, until all the passengers and their baggage shall have been landed; or if there are no passengers, until vessel is completely moored, or until the master's permission is obtained. And it shall be unlawful for the master to allow any person, with the exceptions above named, to leave the vessel without the permission of the customs officer in charge, until all the passengers and their baggage shall have been duly landed, if there are passengers.
Upon the arrival in port of any vessel, it shall be unlawful for any person, except the pilot, customs and health officers, consuls, and agents of the vessel (with the consent of the customs officers), to go on board the vessel, without the permission of the customs officer in charge, until all the passengers and their baggage shall have been landed or, if there are no passengers, until the vessel is completely moored, or until the master's permission is obtained. And it shall be unlawful for any person, with the exceptions above named, to leave the vessel without the permission of the customs officer in charge, until all the passengers and their baggage shall have been duly landed, if there are passengers.
It shall be unlawful for any person in charge of a tugboat, rowboat, or other vessel, to go alongside and put any person, except as authorized by the provisions of this section, on board any incoming vessel as hereinbefore described.
For violation of the provisions of this section, or for permitting or neglecting to prevent a violation thereof, the master of the vessel or other person, as the case may be, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
