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Act No. 355 Section 388

Section 388

SEC. 388. All United States Army transports arriving from a port outside the Philippine Islands at any port in the Philippine Islands shall be subject to the following regulations in regard to their passengers and cargo: First. The personal baggage of all officers and enlisted men of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine-Hospital Service, or of civilians carried as passengers on such transports after compliance with the terms of the Tariff Revision Law of nineteen hundred and one, shall be admitted free of duty. Second. It shall be the duty of the master or other officer in charge of any United States Army transport to present to the custom-house at the port of entry within the time allowed by law a manifest in duplicate containing, specified separately: (1) A list of all merchandise on board of said transport which arc supplies imported by the United States Government for the use of the Army, Navy, or Marine-Hospital Service, or imported by the Insular Government for its use or that of its subordinate branches; (2) a list of all property of officers or enlisted men of the United States Army, Navy, or Marino-Hospital Service, or of civilians carried as passengers on said transport; (3) a list of all other goods, wares, merchandise, or effects carried on said transport. Third. It shall also be the duty of the master or other officer in charge of any United States Army transport to issue to each of the persons described in part second of this section (except for the United States Government supplies) a bill of lading covering this property. Fourth. Upon the arrival of any United States Army transport from a port outside the Philippine Islands at any port in the Philippine Islands it shall be the duty of the master or other officer in charge of said transport to deliver to the collector of customs of the port the above-mentioned manifest, in duplicate, duly certified by himself to be correct, and the duplicate of such manifest, if goods on board be consigned to several ports of the Philippine Islands, shall be returned, by the collector of customs to the quartermaster or other office in charge, with a certificate thereon that all goods belonging to that port have been unladen in conformity therewith, and the quartermaster or other officer in charge shall deliver such duplicate manifest to the collector of customs at any subsequent port for which said transport carries merchandise.

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CitationAct No. 355 Section 388 (LawPlayer, data as of 2026-07-04)

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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