Section 77
SEC. 77. Every vessel from a foreign port or place must, under a penalty of not exceeding five hundred dollars for failure, have on board complete written or typewritten manifests of all her cargo, signed by the master. All of the cargo intended to be landed at a port in the Philippine Archipelago must he described in separate manifests for each port of call therein. Each manifest shall include the port of departure and the port of delivery, with the marks numbers, quantity, and description of the packages and the names of the consignees thereof. Every vessel, from a foreign port or place must have or board complete manifests of passengers, immigrants and their baggage, in the prescribed form, setting forth their destination and all particulars required by the immigration laws; and every such vessel shall have prepared for presentation to the proper customs official, upon arrival in ports of the Philippines, a complete list of all ship's stores then on board, which must be certified thereto by the master thereof. The manifests of cargoes for Philippine ports, if a vessel be from a port of the United States, must be certified by the collector or chief customs officer thereat; if from any other than a United States port, the manifests must be certified by the United States consul or agent at such port, or if there be no consul or agent then by the consul of any nation at peace with the United States, and if there be neither, then by the principal local authority of the port. Every vessel entering Philippine ports from a foreign port must carry manifests as hereinbefore provided, whether she carries cargo, passengers, or immigrants and their baggage, or not. If any such vessel does not carry cargo, passengers, or immigrants, the manifests must be certified, as provided, with a statement that no cargo is carried from the port of departure to the port of destination in the Philippine Archipelago. Manifests in substantial compliance with these requirements shall be accepted, whether in English or the language of the nation to which the vessel belongs. If in a language other than English, the master must furnish the number of translated copies required by the collector.