P.R. Laws tit. 10, § 1241
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The duties of ship broker-interpreters are:
(1) To intervene in charter contracts, marine insurance contracts, and contracts of bottomry, when required to do so.
(2) To aid captains and supercargoes of foreign vessels and to act as their interpreters in making declarations and protests and in transacting such other business as they may have.
(3) To translate such documents as the aforesaid captains and supercargoes may have to present in public offices, provided there is doubt as to the intelligibility of said documents; and to certify that the transactions are well and faithfully made.
History —Commerce Code, 1932, § 78.