PART II PORTS OF EVERETT, BELLINGHAM AND GRAYS HARBOR, WASHINGTON PREPARED BY UNITED STATES MARITIME COMMISSION 149 THE PORT OF EVERETT, WASH. PORT CUSTOMS AND REGULATIONS FEDERAL SERVICES AND REGULATIONS A digest of the more important regulations of the Public Health, Customs and Immigration Services, together with information relative to their services and charges applicable to vessels, freight, and passengers, and a list of the Federal documents required of vessels are contained in Miscellaneous Series No. 1-Port and Terminal Charges at United States Ports. Copies of this publication may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Permission to enter the port of Everett is not required. The port is open, and vessels are received at all times. Visits by customs boarding inspectors are made at pier or anchorage. Vessels may clear between the hours of 9 a. m. and 4:30 p. m. on week days. On Sundays and holidays clearances may be effected by special arrangements made with the customs. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, TREASURY DEPARTMENT Quarantine.-Vessels bound for Everett which are subject to quarantine inspection should receive this inspection at Port Townsend, and should not proceed from quarantine until inspected and granted free or provisional pratique. Fumigation may be arranged through the Seattle office. Hospitals. The Public Health Service maintains a relief station and a contract hospital at Everett where medical services may be procured. The marine hospital is at Seattle. CUSTOMS SERVICE, TREASURY DEPARTMENT Everett is a subport in the Washington customs district, the headquarters for which are located in Seattle. The customhouse is located in the Federal building at the corner of Colby and Wall Streets, about one-half of a mile from the water front. It is open from 9 a. m. to 4.30 p. m. The working hours of customs inspectors are from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., 1 hour being allowed for luncheon. Overtime service is rendered when necessary. IMMIGRATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR No Federal control over immigration is maintained in Everett. Immigrants on incoming vessels who are not detained at quarantine are usually examined on board and if subject to detention are disembarked at Seattle; otherwise they are allowed to proceed to destination. LOCAL REGULATIONS While control over the movements of vessels and over other harbor activities in the port of Everett is vested in the city council, no regulations relating thereto have been officially promulgated. Under authority conferred by act of Congress approved May 9, 1900, entitled "An act to authorize the Secretary of War to make regulations governing the running of loose logs, steamboats, and rafts on certain rivers and streams," the following current regulations, prescribed on April 27, 1910, govern the use of the Snohomish and Snoqualmie Rivers, Wash., on which loose timber and logs are floated in large quantities. Loose logs may be floated in navigable parts of the Snoqualmie and Snohomish Rivers under the following conditions: 1. All loggers and river drivers operating on the Snoqualmie and Snohomish Rivers shall be required to register at the United States Engineer Office, Seattle, Wash., giving the firm name, manager's name, and post office address. 2. No logs shall be dumped into the rivers or released from storage booms without being turned over to a registered driving company, firm, or individual. 3. River drivers authorized to operate on these streams must maintain a sufficient organization of boats and experienced workmen to care for the drives of their customers. 4. River drivers shall so conduct their operations that all parts of the river will be effectively patroled and the formation of jams prevented. 5. During times of freshet, river drivers shall increase their force and station men at critical points where jams are liable to form. 6. Loggers who entrust their logs to river drivers will be required to satisfy themselves that their logs are being driven in accordance with the regulations, and if continued unconcern on their part results in confusion the privilege of dumping logs into the stream shall be denied to them. 7. Hemlock logs that will not float for their entire length shall not be deposited in the rivers. PORT ADMINISTRATION Administrative control over the operation of the port of Everett is vested in the Federal Government, the State of Washington, the city of Everett, the Port of Everett Commission and the Board of Pilotage Commissioners for the State of Washington. The Federal Government exercises jurisdiction with respect to health inspection and quarantine of vessels, their crews and passengers; customs inspection and collection; immigration service; inspection of ships' hulls and boilers and ships' safety devices; and coast guard and lighthouse services. |