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MONTENEGRO. 
(From United States Consul Chester, Budapest, Hungary.) 
The “Hungarian Commercial Museum” publishes a consular report 
to the effect that the Montenegrin minister of finance in Cetinje has 
caused government as well as private warehouses in the port of Anti 
vari to accept merchandise in bond or transit, and has relieved such 
merchandise from all payment of dues and customs pending notice on 
the customs collector of their intended withdrawal. 
Frank Dyer Chester, Consul-General. 
Budapest, Hungary, June 27,1904- 
NETHERLANDS. 
ROTTERDAM. 
(From United States Consul-General Listoe, Rotterdam, Netherlands.) 
For centuries past numerous warehouses have stood on the quays 
at Rotterdam, on the right side of the river Maas. These warehouses, 
however, are not directly accessible by steamers but only by trucks. 
In Rotterdam mercantile establishments of the seventeenth and eight 
eenth centuries, the warehouses are always found on the ground 
floor, behind the offices, while the merchants’ residence quarters are 
above the offices and warehouses. After the introduction of 
steam power, warehouses to fill other needs had to be constructed. 
At the present day a steamer remains in port as short a time as pos 
sible ; the cargo must therefore be discharged quickly. When the 
cargo is not destined for Rhine or Maas ports and therefore can not 
he immediately discharged into Rhine or Maas lighters, there must be 
sufficient room on the quay to deposit a whole cargo. In modern 
ports as a rule the storage places on the quays are covered so far as 
practicable, at least for merchandise that might suffer from rain, and 
this is the case along the quays of the left side of the Maas. No sheds 
are found along the quays of the right side of the river, though the 
steamers of numerous lines to England, France, and northern Ger 
many discharge their cargoes there; but the establishment of modern 
facilities for these lines is contemplated. At present these steamers 
discharge their cargoes on the quays in the open air, whence they are 
distributed to the warehouses situated in the vicinity. When it rains 
the merchandise is protected by canvas. 
CLASSES OF WAREHOUSES. 
The warehouses are designated, according to the amount of super 
vision exercised by the customs authorities, as follows: 
(1) The free entrepôt (public bonded warehouse) ; (2) the private 
free entrepots (private bonded warehouses) ; (3) the entrepots fictifs 
(fictitious warehouses) ; (4) the warehouses over which no cus 
toms supervision is exqrciscd. 
The free public warehouse is treated in detail on later pages. 
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