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WAREHOUSES  IN  FOREIGN  COUNTRIES.

SUFFERANCE  WAREHOUSES.

Sufferance  warehouses  are  for  the  landing  of  cargoes  of  vessels  to
be  disposed  of  by  entry  for  bond,  consumption,  or  export,  and  are  in
many  cases  temporary  and  are  protected  by  bond  of  the  company
using  them,  or  by  bond  of  the  special  vessel.  These  are  not  all  under
special  customs  locks,  as  the  vessel,  as  well  as  the  customs,  is  interested ­
  in  the  care  of  the  cargo.
The  Canadian  Pacific  Railway,  the  Intercolonial  Railway,  and  the
Eastern  Steamship  Company  all  have  commodious  bonded  warehouses ­
  at  St.  John  for  storage  of  goods  in  transit,  and  have  ample
facilities  for  loading  and  discharging  from  or  into  vessels  at  the
wharves.  All  these  are  under  the  supervision  of  the  Canadian  customs ­
  officers.
The  warehouse  of  the  Eastern  Steamship  Company  is  on  the  landing
wharf  at  St.  John,  measures  75  by  300  feet,  and  cost  about  $2,000.
Here  general  merchandise  in  transit  to  and  from  the  United  States
over  the  company’s  lines  is  stored  for  from  twenty-four  to  forty-eight
hours,  or  until  shipped,  at  no  cost  to  the  shipper  for  storage  or  loading ­
  and  discharging.
Rates  on  goods  in  sufferance  bonded  warehouses  are  a  matter  of
agreement  between  the  owner  of  the  goods  and  the  warehouse  men.
Each  transportation  line  has  large  sufferance  bonded  warehouses,
which,  as  a  rule,  make  no  special  charges  for  storing,  loading,  or  discharging, ­
  those  expenses  being  generally  included  in  the  freight
charges.

Warehouses  for  unclaimed  goods  are  used  also  for  the  purposes
above  referred  to.  These  are  strictly  under  government  locks,  and
the  scale  of  fees  leviable  on  goods  stored  therein  is  as  follows  per
month  or  part  of  month:  Tea  per  half  chest,  or  other  small  package,
10  cents;  per  package  of  3  feet  square,  20  cents;  per  larger  case  or
package,  25  cents;  spirits  or  other  liquors,  per  hogshead.  15  cents  ;
per  cask,  10  cents;  per  case,  5  cents;  goods  by  the  barrel,  10  cents;
iron  and  oakum,  per  ton,  80  cents;  pianos,  each,  $1;  organs,  50
cents;  cook  stoves,  25  cents;  and  all  other  goods  in  proportion.
There  are  no  discriminations  against  any  nation.

There  are  no  warehouses  here  that  were  specially  built  for  the
storage  of  merchandise  in  transit  or  in  bond,  but  as  many  as  twelve
warehouses  with  a  capacity  of  from  2,000  to  3,000  barrels  are  set
aside  for  that  purpose  by  the  payment  of  an  annual  fee  of  $40  each-These
  buildings  each  have  a  sign  "  Customs  House,”  and  are  under
the  control  of  the  collector  of  customs;  they  are  securely  locked  until
it  is  desired  to  withdraw  goods,  when  they  are  opened,  and  the  owner

WAREHOUSES  FOR  UNCLAIMED  GOODS.

Ira  B.  Myers,  Consul.

St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  June  9,  190^.

NOVA  SCOTIA

HALIFAX.

(From  United  States  Consul-General  Holloway,  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia.)