Iceland 1930

Der Salzhandel, die Salinen und Salzbergwerke Württembergs im 19. Jahrhundert

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Identifikator:: 1830571079

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221162

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Iceland 1930

Edition:: 2. ed.

Place of publication:: Reykjavík

Publisher:: Ríkisprentsmiđjan Gutenberg

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 193 S.; Tab., Kt., Taf.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Document type:: Monograph

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: State and municipal finance

Collection:: Economics Books

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PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA : LOURENÇO MARQUEZ. 193 quez warehouses, which will he the only ones treated in this report. The government bonded warehouses here are dilapidated structures, called “ King’s warehouses;” but they are little used, and will soon be pulled down to make room for an elaborate system of warehouses that are still in the paper stage. The private bonded warehouses are scattered all over the town, as all the leading merchants and for warding agents have one or more. It is impossible to give a detailed account of the dimensions of these warehouses, many of which are flimsy structures of spruce and corrugated iron, as they belong to scores of different owners, and an inspection of them would take days. The warehouse service here is very simple. Forty-eight hours after the clearance of any vessel all of the cargo that* she had landed in this port that has not been cleared or dispatched by the consignees or their agents must go into bond. This rule was made to prevent congestion of the docks, and, although local importers do not like it, 1 think that it is a very good rule indeed. The government by high charges—17^ cents per ton per day—discourages the use of its lim ited customs warehouses for the storage of goods in bond, and prac tically all bonded goods go into private warehouses. The forward ing agents also discourage the use of bonded warehouses, preferring to have their clients take immediate delivery of their shipments and bond them if necessary in the Transvaal. When it is necessary to store goods in bond here, in a forwarding agent's store, the charges per ton are as follows: Receiving goods from ships' slings, $1.95; cartage and porterage when entering or leaving warehouses, 70 cents; warehouse rent, per month, 00 cents. Private warehouses are not taxed by the customs, a small registra tion fee, covering cost of revenue stamps, etc., on the documents, being charged. The doors of these warehouses have double locks, the proprietors retaining one set of keys and the customs authorities the other set. Duplicate warehouse books are kept, and there are occasional inspections, but there is no very strict supervision, the owners being put upon their honor. When discrepancies appear, however, the customs authorities are very severe, and, to my knowl edge, have a number of times inflicted fines of £1,000 ($R866) for such things. The custom-house furnishes no guards, nor the municipality any police protection, for these bonded warehouses. If thieves break in and steal, the unforutnate owner not only loses his goods, but the cus toms authorities make him pay duty on the stolen goods and, besides, inflict upon him a heavy fine. On account of the chicanery that went on here in the old days, and which has been described bv Mr. P. Bige low in one of his writings, the customs people will take no chances when the robbery of a bonded store is reported to them. “ How do we know,” they will say, “ that the owner himself did not perpetrate the robbery?” Thus it often happens that an innocent and upright merchant has to suffer not only the loss of his goods that have been stolen from his bonded store, but he must also lose to the customs the unpaid duties on the stolen goods and pay a heavy fine in the bargain. The whole customs bonded system.may be said to be run in a loose, happy-go-lucky way, the customs authorities taking little precaution, the municipal authorities giving poor police and fire protection, and the Government relying upon its system of heavy 18762—05 13

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