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WAREHOUSES TN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
ducted by a manager. The service is considered satisfactory from 
every point of view. 
Storage charges vary, according to the articles stored, from 3 cents 
per metric ton per month for cast iron to $1.93 for raw silk or vanilla, 
and $3.80 for nondangerous essences. 0 
In 1903 the receipts for storage amounted to 200,000 francs 
($38,000), and the expenses to 148,000 francs ($28,504). 
The goods principally stored in lhe warehouses are sugar, cocoa, 
coffee, olive oil, rum, and pepper. Americans do not use the ware 
houses at all ; in fact, they are used almost exclusively by the French. 
All nationalities are, however, treated exactly alike by the adminis 
trators of the warehouses. There is no rule as to the length of time 
the goods may remain in bond. They may remain a week, a month, 
six months, or a year or more. 
The administration of the warehouses has under its orders a corps 
of porters who can be employed for the removal of the goods from 
boat to warehouses and vice versa, and who are paid according to the 
tariff established, which is as follows per 2,204.0 pounds: Discharging 
of merchandise upon the quays, 19.3 cents; weighing of merchan 
dise by the customs inspectors, 9.0 cents; removing of merchandise 
into the warehouses and storing it therein, 19.3 cents; total, 48.2 cents. 
The removal of the merchandise from the warehouses to the quays 
and thence on board the boats involves about the same operation and 
charges as above. 
A comptroller and inspector of customs are specially attached to 
the warehouscs-nnd have under their orders a staff of agents. They 
have duplicate keys to the warehouses, with right of access at all 
times. They receive, examine, and record all declarations of entry 
and exit of goods and collect any duties that may be assessed. The 
utmost care is exercised, and the goods are carefully stored and han 
dled in every way. 
The administration of the warehouses does not act as the receiver of 
goods shipped here for storage in bond or otherwise assume any 
responsibility in connection with that operation ; it conducts no cor 
respondence on the subject and appears in the affair only as the pro 
prietor and manager of the warehouses and consequently as the cus 
todian of the goods after their delivery. Goods shipped here for stor 
age must therefore be consigned to an agent who must receive and 
deliver them to the warehouses. There are numerous agents at 
Nantes ready to undertake this operation. 
Benj. II. Ridgely, Consul. 
Nantes, France, July 0/, 190)]. 
NICE. 
(From United States Vice-Consul Piattt, Nice, France.) 
There is at Nice a warehouse for storage of merchandise in transit 
or in bond owned and managed by an incorporated company having a 
«Table of charges in detail on file in Bureau of Statistics, Department of Com 
merce and Labor.