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.