Section 33
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.