Section 34
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.