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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
have bought the products in America or en route. All charges and 
accommodations are the same for all nationalities. 
Often goods arrive in such a condition that they remain only a few 
days. The state of the market, the demand for consumption, the 
nature of the merchandise, and the economic and industrial situation 
render it impossible to indicate the length of time merchandise is 
stored. An approximation would be, perhaps, in the neighborhood 
of four months. 
HANDLING OF GOODS. 
When the goods to be entered are of considerable quantity, the 
ships from which they are discharged or into which they are em 
barked are moored alongside the wharf in front of the warehouses, 
and the loading or unloading is effected by carrying on the back when 
possible, or by rolling or trucking, or, in the case of heavy oils, by 
subterranean pipes. The same manner is employed in regard to the 
railway, the main line of which passes the doors and is connected 
with the interior courts by side tracks. The cost of this service is 
said to be exceedingly cheap at Rouen. 
CUSTOMS SUPERVISION. 
The custom-house officers have no supervision over goods entered 
fictively. Through the houses containing real storage, which pays 
to the state a higher tariff, officers pass about every three months in 
order to see that the merchandise upon which duty has not been paid 
still remains. 
Tiiornwell Haynes, Consul. 
Rouen, France, July 00,190J+. 
GERMANY. 
BERLIN. 
(From United States Consul-General Mason, Berlin, Germany.) 
Each State of the German Empire has its own system of bonded 
warehouses. That of Prussia was established by the statute of duly 
1, 1869. Section 13 of this act,, paragraphs 97 to 110, inclusive, 
relates to bonded warehouses and their management, and is Irans- 
lated in full below. 
BUILDINGS AND MANAGEMENT. 
The bonded warehouses (Zollschuppen) in Berlin are included 
mainly in a group of office buildings, sheds, and warehouses located 
on the north bank of the river Spree, near the central portion of the 
city. They occupy an inclosed space of about 7 acres between the I 
river and the viaduct of the city elevated railway. This viaduct is 
a wide, heavy structure of masonry about 30 feet in height, the arched 
spaces beneath which are used as office and storage rooms. A large, 
handsome group of stone and brick office buildings forms the gate 
way to the inclosure near the Moltke Bridge, and in these are the |