personnel shall be thereby abolished. 

The Governor-General may in like manner temporarily close any port or place in the Philippine Islands to the coastwise trade, and afterwards reopen the same. 

[898-5; 1341-1; 1777-1, 2; 1823-1.] 

SECTION 1319 . Designation of Official as Customs Inspector . — At a coastwise port where no customs officer or employee is regularly stationed the Insular Collector of Customs may designate any Insular, provincial, or municipal official of the port to act a s an inspector of customs for the purpose of enforcing the laws and regulations of the Bureau of Customs in the particular port; but all such designations shall be made with the consent of the Governor-General or proper Department head of the official so d esignated. 

SECTION 1320 . Authority of Officers to Administer Oaths and Take Testimony . — The Insular Collector, the Insular Deputy Collector, collectors of customs and their deputies, surveyors, appraisers, members of the board of protests and appeals, and any other person thereunto especially deputed by the Collector of Customs shall have authority to administer oaths and take testimony in the transaction of official business within the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Customs, and in connection therewith may require th e production of relevant papers, documents, books, and records in accordance with law. 

[355-21.] 

SECTION 1321 . General Bonds . — In cases where bonds are required to be given under the provisions of the customs laws, the Insular Collector, instead of requiring separate special bonds where the transactions of a particular party are numerous, may accept general bonds extending over such periods of time and covering such transactions of the party in question as shall to said Collector seem proper. 

SECTION 1322 . Breach of Bond.  — Upon breach of any bond given under the authority of the customs laws, the collector of customs, with approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice, may accept in satisfaction thereof a smaller sum than that mentioned in the penalty of the bond, but in no case less than the amount necessary to indemnify the Government for the damage occasioned by such breach. 

SECTION 1323 . Returns of Commerce, Navigation, and Immigration . — The annual report of the Insular Collector shall, among other things, contain a 

