Section 112
SEC. 112. Before the clearance of a vessel under the protection of the Government of the Philippine Islands bound on a foreign voyage, the master must file, under oath, a list of the names, places of birth, and residence and a description of the persons who compose his crew, and the collector shall deliver to him a certified copy of such list without erasure or interlineation. The master of even vessel bound on a foreign voyage shall exhibit the certified copy of the list of the crew to the first boarding officer at the first port in the Philippine Islands at which he shall arrive; on his return, and also produce the persons named therein to the boarding officer, whose duty it shall be to examine the men with such list and report the same to the collector; and it shall be the duty of the collector at the port of arrival, where the same is different from the port from which the vessel originally sailed, to transmit a copy of the list so reported to him to the collector of the port from which such vessel originally sailed. For each failure to produce any person on the certified copy of the list of the crew the master and owner shall be severally liable to a penalty of not exceeding four hundred dollars; but such penalties shall not be incurred on account of the master not producing to the first boarding officer any of the persons contained in the list who may have been discharged in a foreign country with the consent of the consul, vice consul, commercial agent, or vice commercial agent of the United States there residing, certified in writing, under his hand and official seal, to be produced to the collector with the other persons composing the crew nor on account of any such person dying or absconding, or being forcibly impressed into other service, of which satisfactory proof shall also be exhibited to the collector.