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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
Government locks are put on the doors. All the government holds 
is a bond for the payment of duty and charges. Licenses are 
granted only to persons of such substance that any liability incurred 
by them could be enforced. Salt and petroleum are in the custody 
of customs officers. 
It. F. Patterson, Consul-General. 
Calcutta, British India, August 11,1904. 
BOMBAY. 
(From United States Vice-Consul Dodge, Bombay, India.) 
There are two kinds of warehouses in Bombay, transit and bonded, 
the former corresponding most nearly to our idea of bonded ware 
houses. They are owned and were built by the Bombay Port Trust, 
but are under the supervision of the customs. The only bonded 
warehouses are in the center of the business portion of the city, and 
goods have to be carted between them and the docks, a distance of 
about a mile and a half, at the expense of the owner, who also pays 
a fee of 1 rupee (32 cents) to the customs official who must accom 
pany them. The new transit and bonded warehouses are situated 
in the Princes’ Docks, and are of much later construction. 
The warehouses are generally used for goods awaiting transship 
ment to the Persian Gulf, African ports, and the East, and usually 
but brief periods elapse between shipments. A considerable quantity 
of merchandise lies in bond here awaiting orders to be sent into 
the interior of India. Large quantities of goods also come from 
Persia, Arabia, and East Africa, awaiting transshipment to Conti 
nental ports. The service is trustworthy and the warehouses are 
clean and well kept. Little or no use is made of the Warehouses at 
Bombay by American firms, though all nations are treated exactly 
alike. 
The transfer of goods to the warehouses at the docks is generally 
accomplished by coolie or bullock cart, as the distance is only a few 
hundred yards. The cost of transportation is borne by the owner. 
In transferring to the bonded warehouses in Apollo street in the city 
bullock carts are used, at the cost of about 25 cents a trip. 
The scale of charges for goods in both warehouses is the same, and 
a detailed list is herewith given : 
Storage charges at Bombay. 
Alum 
Beef and pork. 
Canvas 
Cardamons 
Cement 
Coffee 
Copperas.. 
Cotton 
Ginger, dry... 
Goods. 
Removing 
and stor 
ing 
charges. 
Rent per 
week or 
portion of. 
ton.. 
(tierce .. 
I barrel.. 
/bale up to 12 cubic feet.. 
• (above 12 cubic feet 
hundredweight (112 lbs.).. 
ton.. 
...................... .do.... 
do— 
pressed bale.. 
ton.. 
$0.16 
.08 
.06 
.04 
.06 
.01 
.16 
.16 
.16 
.03 
• .12 
$0.03 
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