File No. 600.119/493a suppl.
The Secretary of State to the Diplomatic and Consular Officers
Instruct consular officers at seaports, your jurisdiction, to substitute following for circular telegram of January 30;2
Every vessel leaving United States ports on or after February 1, 1918, will carry copies of shipper’s export declaration, manifest of cargo to be discharged at each port, bunker forms Nos. 7 and 2 which [Page 978] master must deliver American consul on arrival at port and place in consul’s possession all facts relating to cargoes, bunker fuel, ship’s stores and voyage. Receive aforesaid documents and return them to master before clearance and report to Department all deliveries of cargo which fail to accord with shipper’s export declaration or fulfill terms of bunker agreement with reasons therefor, but avoid interposing objection to or exercising control or supervision over loading, discharging or distribution of cargoes as indicated in bunker form No. 7 and be careful to avoid violations of local law.