SEC. 33. The surveyor shall be the outdoor executive officer of the port, and shall supervise the force of inspectors, weighers, measurers, gaugers, and laborers, and such part of the force employed in the execution of the laws relating to commerce and navigation and other matters under the direction of the customs service as the Insular Collector shall by regulation prescribe. He shall take charge of all vessels arriving from foreign ports and report their names and character to the collector. He shall supervise the discharge of their cargoes and the lading of merchandise exported or transported in bond. He shall ascertain and report the quantity of all imported spirits and of all spirits exported in bond.
The surveyor, under such regulations as the Insular Collector shall prescribe, is also charged with the admeasurement within his district of insular vessels for registry, enrollment, or license, and the admeasurement of foreign vessels for the assessment of tonnage dues, when in his judgment or that of the collector such admeasurement is advisable.
SEC. 34. At ports having a collector and a surveyor the surveyor is required, under the direction of the collector
1. To superintend and direct all inspectors, weighers, and measurers within his port;
2. To visit or inspect the vessels which arrive in his port and make a return every morning to the collector of all vessels which have arrived from foreign ports during the preceding day, specifying the names and denominations of the vessels, the masters' names, from whence arrived, whether laden or in ballast, and to what nation belonging;
3. To put on board of each of said vessels, immediately after their arrival in port, one or more inspectors;
4. To examine whether the goods imported in any vessel and the deliveries thereof correspond, according to the inspector's returns, with the permits for landing the same, and if any error or disagreement appears, to report the same to the collector;
5. To superintendent the lading of all goods for exportation, and examine and report whether the kind, quantity, and quality of the goods so laden on board any vessel for exportation correspond with the entries and permits granted therefor;
6. To examine and from time to time, particularly on the first Mondays in January and July of each year, try the weights, measures, and other instruments used in ascertaining the duties on imports, with standards to be provided by the collector for that purpose; and where disagreements with the standards are discovered to report the same to the collector, and to comply with such directions as he may receive for correcting the same.
