Section 131

If the Superintendent or any Deputy Superintendent, Port Health Officer, Deputy Port Health Officer, or any clerk or employee in the Mercantile Marine Office or any Mercantile Marine Sub-Office demands or receives, except as provided by this Act, any remuneration whatever, either directly or indirectly, for hiring or supplying any seamen for a ship or transacting any business which it is his duty to transact, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction for every such offence to a fine not exceeding $400, and also to dismissal from his office.[148** Sections 146 and 147 in the 1970 Edition were repealed by Act 38/84.