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Identifikator:: 1819853969

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-207464

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cannan, Edwin http://d-nb.info/gnd/118666916

Title:: Money

Edition:: 6. ed.

Place of publication:: [London]

Publisher:: King

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: XII, 120 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Collection:: Economics Books

30 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 17, 1854, and ceded November 14 of the same year to La Compagnie des Docks-Entrepôts du Havre, a company with a capital of 5,000.000 francs ($965,000). The duration of the concession is ninety-nine years. The ground upon which the warehouses, sheds, courts, docks, etc., are built is the property of the State, for which the company pays a total rent of about 2,000,000 francs ($386,000) in yearly in stallments. By the terms of the concession the company obligated itself to construct buildings capable of receiving at least 130,000 tons of merchandise under the most favorable conditions, covered yards for overhauling and examining the merchandise before it was stored, sheds for the temporary storage of cargoes after discharge from ves sels, administrative buildings for offices for custom-house officials at tached to the bonded warehouses and for sleeping quarters for a cer tain number of these officials, to erect walls to isolate the entire plant, to create means of interior communication by which merchandise could be removed from one warehouse and transported quickly to another or be loaded on vessels, and to install machinery and other apparatus for loading, discharging, and weighing cargoes, all upon plans ap proved by the Government. The conditions of the contract have been carried out, and, owing to the growing demands of commerce, the company has built in addition warehouses covering a surface of 117,500 square meters (140,530 square yards). The docks belonging to the bonded warehouses and the stonework and pavement of the quays were constructed by the Government. As mentioned above, the term of the concession is ninety-nine years, at the expiration of which the property of the company, with the exception of the annexes, consisting of the buildings, the apparatus for handling merchandise, the stone walls inclosing the plant, etc., reverts to the Government. The following are the superficial areas of the original bonded ware houses and those of the annexes : Areas of Havre warehouses. Buildings, etc. Original bonded ware houses. Annexes. Warehouses Covered courts and storehouses. Courts not covered Total area. ■’% 74,152 45,448 208,320 (Is. 840 * 140,530 There are five cellars for wines and liquors, of a capacity of 6,000 tons. The north and south quays of the floating dock are each 1,821 feet long. In the pamphlet containing the rules, regulations, and tariff of charges of the company, sent with this report, 0 (here is a scale plan which indicates the arrangement and dimensions of the different buildings, covered courts, quays, etc. The estimated cost of the company’s plant is 15,000,000 francs ($2,895,000). a On file in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor.

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