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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
(for drawback); lemon juice, tea; coffee, roasted (for drawback); 
cocoa, cocoa paste; chicory, roasted and ground; tobacco (for draw 
back), tobacco, negro head; tobacco, roll; cigars; raisins, currants, 
figs, prunes, plums, sugar, molasses, condensed milk, preserves (mar 
malade, etc.), American canned meats, and lard. These stores are 
also used largely for canned meats imported from America, and occa 
sional cargoes of grain arrive from America, but on arrival here they 
are generally the property of the English receiver. American ships 
can draw from these warehouses for their supplies free of duty. All 
nationalities are treated alike, without distinction of any kind. 
I can not state the length of time goods generally remain in bond- 
In transit sheds goods are left only two or three days and in ware 
houses from one week to twelve months. Goods may remain in bond 
until unfit for use, when the customs officers may order them to be 
destroyed, in which case the merchant is not called upon to pay duty- 
The rate book previously referred to tells the facilities foy and the 
cost of the removal of the goods from boat to warehouse, and vice 
'versa! 
The,Customs officials are stationed on the premises, and the bonding 
business;is conducted under their supervision. They are required to 
see finit the regulations are carried out and keep records of the 
gooefs as they come into the warehouse, and issue permits as they are 
delivered out. 
H. Nixon, Vice and Deputy Consul. 
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, August 31,190 
NOTTINGHAM. 
(From United States Consul Maliin, Nottingham, England.) 
There is but one bonded warehouse in this district, so far as I can 
learn, that of the Midland Railway Company, in this city. The of#' 
cial of the company in charge prefers not to attempt giving any fig' 
ures as to dimensions and original cost of the warehouse, it being 
part of a building used for other purposes also. 
The warehouse is used chiefly for the storage of wines and spirits- 
and occasionally of tea and tobacco. The following is the officia» 
scale of charges per week: Wines and spirits, per pipe or puncheon, 
3d. (6 cents) ; per hogshead, 2d. (4 cents) ; per barrel, l^d. (3 cents) j 
per quarter cask, Id. (2 cents) ; per case. 1 dozen, jd. (one-half cent) í 
per case, 3 dozen, 4d. (1 cent). Part of a week will be charged as a 
week. 
Merchants or traders storing wines and spirits in this warehouse 
may have the use of the vat for blending purposes, etc., at the charge, 
including labor, of Id. (2 cents) per gallon. 
Labor is charged for at the rate of Is. 6d. (36 cents) per ton; this 
includes taking in the goods, weighing when necessary, and deliver 
ing out again to the vehicle. This charge will not, however, be mad 0 
upon goods which have previously arrived by the Midland Railway? 
and are reconsigned for further conveyance over the company’s lines- 
Cartage of goods from the bonded warehouse will be 2s. (48 cents) 
per ton to any place within the ordinary limits of delivery, except oß