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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
17, 1854, and ceded November 14 of the same year to La Compagnie 
des Docks-Entrepôts du Havre, a company with a capital of 5,000.000 
francs ($965,000). The duration of the concession is ninety-nine 
years. The ground upon which the warehouses, sheds, courts, docks, 
etc., are built is the property of the State, for which the company 
pays a total rent of about 2,000,000 francs ($386,000) in yearly in 
stallments. By the terms of the concession the company obligated 
itself to construct buildings capable of receiving at least 130,000 tons 
of merchandise under the most favorable conditions, covered yards 
for overhauling and examining the merchandise before it was stored, 
sheds for the temporary storage of cargoes after discharge from ves 
sels, administrative buildings for offices for custom-house officials at 
tached to the bonded warehouses and for sleeping quarters for a cer 
tain number of these officials, to erect walls to isolate the entire plant, 
to create means of interior communication by which merchandise could 
be removed from one warehouse and transported quickly to another 
or be loaded on vessels, and to install machinery and other apparatus 
for loading, discharging, and weighing cargoes, all upon plans ap 
proved by the Government. The conditions of the contract have been 
carried out, and, owing to the growing demands of commerce, the 
company has built in addition warehouses covering a surface of 
117,500 square meters (140,530 square yards). The docks belonging 
to the bonded warehouses and the stonework and pavement of the 
quays were constructed by the Government. 
As mentioned above, the term of the concession is ninety-nine years, 
at the expiration of which the property of the company, with the 
exception of the annexes, consisting of the buildings, the apparatus 
for handling merchandise, the stone walls inclosing the plant, etc., 
reverts to the Government. 
The following are the superficial areas of the original bonded ware 
houses and those of the annexes : 
Areas of Havre warehouses. 
Buildings, etc. 
Original 
bonded 
ware 
houses. 
Annexes. 
Warehouses 
Covered courts and storehouses. 
Courts not covered 
Total area. 
■’% 
74,152 
45,448 
208,320 
(Is. 
840 
* 
140,530 
There are five cellars for wines and liquors, of a capacity of 6,000 
tons. The north and south quays of the floating dock are each 1,821 
feet long. In the pamphlet containing the rules, regulations, and 
tariff of charges of the company, sent with this report, 0 (here is a 
scale plan which indicates the arrangement and dimensions of the 
different buildings, covered courts, quays, etc. The estimated cost of 
the company’s plant is 15,000,000 francs ($2,895,000). 
a On file in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor.