ployed on service of the Customs to be deemed officers for I.-APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS, PORTS, &c. AS TO THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS OF CUSTOMS. Persons em- 5. Every person employed on any duty or service relating to the Customs, trade or navigation, by the orders or with the concurrence of the Governor (whether previously or subsequently expressed) shall be deemed to be the officer for that such service. duty or service, and every act required by any law to be done by or with any particular officer nominated for such purpose, if done by or with any person appointed by the Governor to act for such particular officer, shall be deemed to be done by or with such particular officer, and every act required by law to be done at any particular place, if done at any place appointed by the Governor for such purpose, shall be deemed to be done at the particular place so required by law, and all commissions, deputations, and appointments granted to any officers of the Customs in force at the commencement of this Ordinance shall continue in force as if the same had been appointments granted under the authority of this Ordinance, and all bonds or other securities which shall have been given by or for any such officers and their respective sureties for good conduct or otherwise, shall remain in full force. Existing and securities to remain in force. The Collector and Treasurer to have supervision of the Customs 6. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the *Collector of Customs and Treasurer of the Gold Coast Colony shall have the general superintendence and control of the entire Customs and Revenue Department of the Colony, with full department. power and authority at all times to carry into effect the laws relating to the Customs and Revenue, and to trade and navigation, and the powers and authority of the *Collector of Customs and Treasurer, and of all officers and other persons acting under his orders and authority, shall extend to and throughout all places within the limits of the jurisdiction. Collectors of act for ports or districts assigned by the Governor. Subordination of officers. 7. Every officer appointed a Collector of Customs shall act for such port or district as shall from time to time be assigned to him for that purpose by the Governor, and shall in all matters Connected with his duties as Collector of Customs or otherwise in relation to the Customs correspond with and be subject to the orders and directions of the *Collector of Customs and Treasurer, and the several subordinate officers of Customs at Accra, and at the several out-stations, shall, in all things relating to the execution of their duties, be subject to the authority, * Office abolished and other provision made by No. 4 of 1885. direction, and control of the *Collector of Customs and Treasurer or other chief officer or officers at Accra, or their senior officer, as the case may be, at the port or district to which such subordinate officers are respectively attached, and shall respectively obey such orders and instructions as shall from time to time be given to them, or any of them: Provided always that the Governor may from time to time make and issue orders for the guidance and government of the Collector of Customs and Treasurer, and the other officers of the Customs Department, and may annul or disallow any order issued by the *Collector of Customs and Treasurer, or other officer of Customs. officers to act them by 8. The several out-door officers of Customs shall act for Outdoor such ports or districts as shall from time to time be assigned for ports to them for that purpose by the Governor, and shall perform assigned to such duties as may from time to time be required of them by Governor. the Collector of Customs and Treasurer, or by the Collector of Customs at the particular port or place at which any such out-door officer may be stationed. officers may 9. It shall be lawful for the Collector of Customs and Temporary Treasurer from time to time, as occasion shall arise for tempo- be appointed. rary aid in the Customs, to appoint a person or persons to act as out-door officer or officers, whose duty it shall be to perform any and every such out-door service connected with the Customs Department as he or they may be called upon to perform, and it shall also be lawful for any Collector of Customs, in any case of emergency, to appoint a person or persons to act as out-door officer or officers within the district of such Collector of Customs, such appointment or appointments to continue in force only during the existence of such case of emergency; and every person so appointed as aforesaid shall be subject to the liabilities and possess and exercise the powers and authorities of an out-door officer. taking fee or authorised, to reward not be dismissed. 10. If any officer, clerk, or other person acting in any Officers office or employment in or belonging to the Customs shall take or receive any fee, perquisite, or reward, whether pecuniary or otherwise, directly or indirectly, from any person (not being a person duly appointed to some office in the Customs) on account of anything done or omitted to be done by him in, or in any way relating to, his said office or employment, except such as he shall receive under any law, or by permission of the Governor, such officer, clerk, or other person so offending * Office abolished and other provision made by No. 4 of 1885. Declaration to office. shall, on proof thereof to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, be dismissed from his office. 11. Every person who shall be appointed to any office or on admission employment in the Customs shall, on his admission thereto, in addition to any oath which may be required by law to be taken by him, make the following declaration before the Colonial Secretary, or before some person appointed by dedimus potestatem for that purpose: The Governor Hours of attendance and division of duties in those hours. Fees to be paid where service of officers required at extra hours "I, A. B., do declare that I will be true and faithful in "the execution, to the best of my knowledge and power, of "the trust committed to my charge and inspection, in the "service of the Customs of the Gold Coast Colony, and that I "will not require, take, or receive any fee, perquisite, "gratuity, or reward, whether pecuniary or of any sort or "description whatever, either directly or indirectly, for any "service, act, duty, matter, or thing done or performed, or to "be done or performed, in the execution or discharge of any "of the duties of my office or employment on any account whatever, other than my salary, and what is or shall be "allowed me by law, or by any special order of the "Governor." 66 12. The Governor in Council may from time to time regulate the method and form in which the books and accounts of the Department of the *Collector of Customs and Treasurer shall be kept, and define the duties of the respective officers of the Department. 13. +The Governor may from time to time appoint the days and hours of general attendance of the Collector of Customs and Treasurer and officers and persons in the service of the Customs at their proper offices and places of employment, and may appoint the times during such hours at which any particular parts of the duties of any such officers and other persons shall be performed: Provided that nothing herein or in any such appointment contained, shall extend or be construed to prevent the performance or excuse the non-performance of any duty which may devolve on any officer of the Customs or which such officer may be called on or required by any superior officer of his Department to perform after or before the hours so appointed as aforesaid, or on days declared to be public holidays. 14. If the consignee of any vessel discharging or lading cargo, or the importer or exporter of any goods should require * Office abolished and other provision made by No. 4 of 1885. † Hours of attendance appointed September 3, 1884. See Appendix. the services of any of the undermentioned officers at an earlier To Assistant Examining Officers 0 5 1s. To the Out-door Officers taking AS TO THE APPOINTMENT OF PORTS, WAREHOUSES, SUFFERANCE Appointment WHARVES, AND LANDING STATIONS. of Ports, &c. ports and 15.+ The Governor in Council may from time to time The Governor appoint ports and sub-ports within the jurisdiction, and declare may appoint the limits of such ports and sub-ports, and appoint proper quays, and places within the same to be legal quays for the lading and alter or annul unlading of goods, and declare the bounds and extent of any such quays, or annul the limits of any port, sub-port, or legal * Office abolished and other provision made by No. 4 of 1885. 1880; December 13, 1886. See Appendix. Ports annulled February 11, 1878; December 3, 1879. See Appendix. the same. T Existing ports to continue. The Governor may appoint stations and sufferance wharves, and regulate dis charge of cargo. The Governor may appoint warehousing ports. Appointment quay already appointed, or to be hereafter set out and appointed, and declare the same to be no longer a port, subport, or legal quay, or alter or vary the names, bounds, and limits thereof; and all ports and sub-ports and the respective limits thereof, and all legal quays appointed, set out, and existing as such at the commencement of this Ordinance shall continue to be such ports, sub-ports, and quays until annulled, varied, or altered; and any port, sub-port, or quay, or the limits thereof now annulled or altered, shall continue so annulled or altered until otherwise varied or altered as aforesaid. 16.* The Governor in Council may from time to time appoint stations or places for ships arriving at or departing from any port or sub-port to bring to for the boarding or landing of officers of the Customs, and may also appoint places to be sufferance wharves for the lading and unlading of goods by sufferance in such cases, under such restrictions, and in such manner as the Governor in Council shall see fit, and may also direct at what particular part or parts of any roadstead, harbour, dock, quay, or other place in any port or sub-port ships laden with any particular cargo shall moor and discharge such cargo, and the +Collector of Customs and Treasurer or other chief officer of Customs of any port or sub-port may station officers on board any ship while within the Colonial waters. 17. The Governor in Council may from time to time appoint any port or sub-port to be a warehousing port or sub-port for the purposes of this Ordinance, and such port or sub-port shall thereafter have and possess all the rights and privileges of a warehousing port or sub-port until the appointment thereof be annulled by the Governor in Council, and all appointments of warehousing ports and sub-ports existing at the commencement of this Ordinance shall continue in force until so annulled. 18. Subject to the directions of the Governor, the †Collector of Customs and Treasurer may from time to time approve and appoint warehouses at any warehousing port or sub-port for the warehousing and securing of goods without payment of duty upon the first entry thereof, and all goods to be stored in such warehouses shall be stored in such manner as the +Collector of Customs and Treasurer or other chief officer of the Customs shall direct; and the warehouses shall be locked and secured in such manner, and shall be opened and visited * Sufferance wharves appointed February 11th, 1878; October 2nd, 1886; December 18, 1886. See Appendix. † Office abolished and other provision made by No. 4 of 1885. |